Unified Social Credit Identifier

A Unified Social Credit Identifier is issued to registered companies and other types of organization by the Chinese government.

[1] Previously, business owners in China had to obtain a business permit with a unique id from the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC), a taxpayer identifier from the STA, and an organization code from Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) until the reforms in 2015 introduced the USCC.

SAIC and AQSIQ were merged into the newly founded SAMR following an organizational reform by the State Council in 2018.

[2][3] Unified Social Credit Identifier is defined by GB 32100-2015 standard.

It is 18 characters long and consists of Arabic numerals and uppercase English letters (but excluding I, O, Z, S, and V).