As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 20, 2018

pursuant to the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act

Registration No. 333-          

 

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM F-1
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

HITEK GLOBAL INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Cayman Islands   7372   Not Applicable
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)

 

Unit 304, No. 30 Guanri Road, Siming District,

Xiamen City, Fujian Province, People’s Republic of China
+86-571-82213772

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

 

Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li LLC
1450 Broadway, 26th Floor
New York, NY 10018
(212) 530-2208

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 

With a Copy to:

Joan Wu, Esq.

Ying Li, Esq.

Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li LLC

1450 Broadway, 26th Floor

New York, NY 10018

(212) 530-2208

 

William S. Rosenstadt, Esq.

Mengyi “Jason” Ye, Esq.

Yarona L. Yieh, Esq.

Ortoli Rosenstadt LLP

366 Madison Ave, 3rd Floor

New York, NY 10017

(212) 588-0022

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: Promptly after the effective date of this registration statement.

 

If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act of 1933 check the following box: ☒

 

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, please check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering. ☐

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933. Emerging growth company ☒

 

If an emerging growth company that prepares its financial statements in accordance with U.S. GAAP, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act. ☐

 

 

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

Title of Each Class of Securities to Be Registered   Amount to
Be Registered
    Proposed Maximum
Offering Price  per
Share
    Proposed Maximum
Aggregate Offering
Price (2)
    Amount of
Registration
Fee (5)
 
Class A Ordinary Shares, par value US$0.0001 per share (1) (3)               $                 $              
Underwriter’s Warrants (4)                        
Class A Ordinary Shares, par value US$0.0001 per share, underlying Underwriter’s warrants (4)                        
Total               $ 23,000,000     $ 2,787.6  

 

(1) Includes Class A Ordinary Shares initially offered and sold outside the United States that may be resold from time to time in the United States either as part of their distribution or within 40 days after the later of the effective date of this registration statement and the date the shares are first bona fide offered to the public. These Class A Ordinary Shares are not being registered for the purposes of sales outside of the United States. Includes up to [●] Class A Ordinary Shares subject to the Underwriter’s over-subscription allowance.
(2) Estimated solely for the purpose of determining the amount of registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act.
(3) In accordance with Rule 416(a), the Registrant is also registering an indeterminate number of additional Class A Ordinary Shares that shall be issuable pursuant to Rule 416 to prevent dilution resulting from share splits, share dividends or similar transactions.
(4) Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(g) under the Securities Act of 1933. If we complete this offering, then on the closing date, we will issue Underwriter Warrants (the “Underwriter Warrants”) to Boustead Securities, LLC, to purchase such number of Class A Ordinary Shares equal to six percent (6%) of the maximum proceeds from the Class A Ordinary Shares sold by the Company in the offering divided by the offering price per Class A Ordinary Share and exercisable at an exercise price of 100% of the offering price of the Class A Ordinary Shares. Includes warrants to purchase up to [●] Class A Ordinary Shares subject to the Underwriter’s over-subscription allowance.
(5) To be paid upon first non-confidential filing of registration statement with Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

The Registrant hereby amends this registration statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this registration statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until the registration statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to such Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 

 

 

The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We will not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and it is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION

 

PRELIMINARY PROSPECTUS DATED November 20, 2018

 

Class A Ordinary Shares
(minimum offering amount)

 

Class A Ordinary Shares
(maximum offering amount)

 

 

Hitek Global Inc.

 

This is an initial public offering of our Class A Ordinary Shares. In respect of matters requiring shareholders’ vote, each Class A ordinary share, $0.0001 par value per share (“Class A Ordinary Shares”), is entitled to one vote and each Class B ordinary share, 0.0001 par value per share (“Class B Ordinary Shares”), is entitled to ten (10) votes. We are offering on a best efforts basis a minimum of [●] and a maximum of [●] our Class A Ordinary Shares. Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for Class A Ordinary Shares. We expect the initial public offering price will be in the range of $[●] to $[●] per Ordinary Share. We have reserved the symbol “HKIT” for purpose of listing our Class A Ordinary Shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market and plan to apply to list the Class A Ordinary Shares on The NASDAQ Capital Market. We have applied to have our Class A Ordinary Shares listed on The NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol “HKIT”.

 

Investing in our Class A Ordinary Shares involves a high degree of risk, including the risk of losing your entire investment. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 8 to read about factors you should consider before buying our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

We are an “emerging growth company” as defined under the federal securities laws and will be subject to reduced public company reporting requirements. Please read the disclosures beginning on page 4 of this prospectus for more information.

 

    Number of
Class A
Ordinary
Shares
    Initial Public
Offering
Price
    Underwriting
Discounts and
Commissions (1)
    Proceeds to Our
Company Before
Expenses (2)
 
Minimum               $           $           $        
Maximum         $     $     $  

 

(1) See “Underwriting” in this prospectus for more information regarding our arrangements with the underwriter.
(2) The total estimated expenses related to this offering are set forth in the section entitled “Discounts, Commissions and Expenses.”

 

The underwriter is selling our Class A Ordinary Shares in this offering on a best efforts basis. The underwriter is not required to sell any specific number or dollar amount of Class A Ordinary Shares but will use its best efforts to sell the Class A Ordinary Shares offered. One of the conditions to our obligation to sell any securities through the underwriter is that, upon the closing of the offering, the Class A Ordinary Shares would qualify for listing on The NASDAQ Capital Market. In addition, the Underwriter will have an over-subscription allowance to sell up to an additional 15% of the offering amount, or an additional [●] Class A Ordinary Shares for $[●] of original gross proceeds in this offering. This over-subscription allowance may be exercised in whole or in part through [●].

 

We do not intend to close this offering unless we sell at least the minimum number of Ordinary Shares, at the price per Ordinary Share set forth above, to result in sufficient proceeds to list our Class A Ordinary Shares on the NASDAQ Capital Market. The offering may terminate on the earlier of (i) any time after the minimum offering amount of our Class A Ordinary Shares is raised, or (ii) 90 days from the effective date of this prospectus, or the expiration date. If we can successfully raise the minimum offering amount within the offering period, the proceeds from the offering will be released to us after deducting certain escrow fees. The proceeds from the sale of the Class A Ordinary Shares in this offering will be payable to “[●]” and will be deposited in a separate (limited to funds received on our behalf) non-interest bearing trust bank account until the minimum offering amount is raised. If we do not raise the minimum offering amount of $[●], we will not conduct a closing of this offering and will return to investors all amounts previously deposited by them in escrow, without interest or deduction.

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission nor any other regulatory body has approved or disapproved of these securities or determined if this prospectus is truthful or complete. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 

  

 

Prospectus dated November 20, 2018.

 

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

PROSPECTUS SUMMARY 1
THE OFFERING 5
SUMMARY FINANCIAL DATA 7
RISK FACTORS 8
DISCLOSURE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS 25
ENFORCEABILITY OF CIVIL LIABILITIES 26
USE OF PROCEEDS 27
DIVIDEND POLICY 28
CAPITALIZATION 29
DILUTION 30
MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITIONS AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS 31
INDUSTRY 42
BUSINESS 44
REGULATIONS 55
MANAGEMENT 61
EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION 64
PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDERS 65
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS 66
DESCRIPTION OF SHARE CAPITAL 67
SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE 77
TAXATION 78
UNDERWRITING 84
LEGAL MATTERS 91
CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE 91
EXPERTS 91
INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL 91
DISCLOSURE OF COMMISSION POSITION ON INDEMNIFICATION 91
WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 91
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS F-1

 

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About this Prospectus

 

We and the underwriter have not authorized anyone to provide any information or to make any representations other than those contained in this prospectus or in any free writing prospectuses prepared by us or on our behalf or to which we have referred you. We take no responsibility for, and can provide no assurance as to the reliability of, any other information that others may give you. This prospectus is an offer to sell only the shares offered hereby, but only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so. We are not making an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted or where the person making the offer or sale is not qualified to do so or to any person to whom it is not permitted to make such offer or sale. The information contained in this prospectus is current only as of the date on the front cover of the prospectus. Our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects may have changed since that date.

 

Other Pertinent Information

 

Unless otherwise indicated or the context requires otherwise, references in this prospectus to:

 

  “we”, “us” or the “Company” are to Hitek Global Inc., and its affiliated entities;
     
  “affiliated entities” are to our subsidiaries and variable interest entities (“VIE”);
     
  “China” or the “PRC” are to the People’s Republic of China, excluding Taiwan and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau for the purposes of this prospectus only;
     
  “Class B Holders” are Shenping Yin  (“Mr. Yin”), our Chairman, and Xiaoyang Huang  (“Ms. Huang”, Mr.Yin’s wife), our Chief Executive Officer and a director, who collectively hold 8,192,000 shares, or 74.55% of our outstanding ordinary shares, as of the date hereof.
     
  “HiTek HK” are to the Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, HiTek Hong Kong Ltd., a Hong Kong corporation;
     
  “HiTek”, or “VIE entity”, are to Xiamen Hengda HiTek Computer Network Co., Ltd., a limited liability company organized under the laws of the PRC, that we control via a series of contractual arrangements between WFOE and HiTek;
     
  “Huasheng” are to Xiamen Huasheng HiTek Computer Network Co., Ltd., a limited liability company organized under the laws of the PRC that function as HiTek’s operating subsidiary;
     
  “Huoerguosi” are to Huoerguosi Hengda Information Technology Co., Ltd., a limited liability company organized under the laws of the PRC that function as HiTek’s operating subsidiary.
     
  “WFOE” are to Tian Dahai (Xiamen) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (“Tian Dahai”), a limited liability company organized under the laws of the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”), which is wholly-owned by us through HiTek HK, and
     
  “Class A Ordinary Shares” are to the Class A Ordinary Shares of HiTek Global Inc., par value $0.0001 per share.
     
  “Class B Ordinary Shares” are to the Class B Ordinary Shares of HiTek Global Inc., par value $0.0001 per share.

 

Our business is conducted via HiTek, our VIE entity in the PRC, using RMB, the currency of China. Our consolidated financial statements are presented in United States dollars. In this prospectus, we refer to assets, obligations, commitments and liabilities in our consolidated financial statements in United States dollars. These dollar references are based on the exchange rate of RMB to United States dollars, determined as of a specific date or for a specific period. Changes in the exchange rate will affect the amount of our obligations and the value of our assets in terms of United States dollars which may result in an increase or decrease in the amount of our obligations (expressed in dollars) and the value of our assets.

 

Immediately prior to the completion of this offering, we will amend our memorandum and articles of association to convert the Class A Ordinary Shares held by the Class B Holders into Class B Ordinary Shares and the remaining outstanding shares (representing 2,795,679 shares, or approximately 25.45% of our outstanding ordinary shares as of the date hereof) into Class A Ordinary Shares. Following the completion of this offering, our outstanding share capital will consist of Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares. Each Class A ordinary share is entitled to one vote, and each Class B ordinary share is entitled to ten votes, subject to the limitations set forth in “Description of Share Capital—Ordinary Shares,” and is convertible into one Class A ordinary share. Upon completion of this offering, Class A Ordinary Shares will not be convertible into Class B Ordinary Shares under any circumstances. Assuming we raise the minimum offering proceeds, or $[●], the Class B Holders will be deemed to beneficially own all of our issued Class B Ordinary Shares and will be able to exercise approximately [●]% of the total voting power of our issued and outstanding share capital immediately following the completion of this offering. Assuming we raise the maximum offering proceeds, or $[●], the Class B Holders will be deemed to beneficially own all of our issued Class B Ordinary Shares and will be able to exercise approximately [●]% of the total voting power of our issued and outstanding share capital immediately following the completion of this offering. Holders of Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares have the same rights except for voting and conversion rights. Any conversion of the Class B Ordinary Shares described in this prospectus will take effect as a redemption of Class B Ordinary Shares and an issuance of Class A Ordinary Shares as a matter of Cayman Islands law.

 

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

 

The following summary is qualified in its entirety by, and should be read in conjunction with, the more detailed information and financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. In addition to this summary, we urge you to read the entire prospectus carefully, especially the risks of investing in our Class A Ordinary Shares, discussed under “Risk Factors”, before deciding whether to buy our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

Overview

 

We are an information technology (“IT”) consulting and solutions service provider focusing on delivering services to business in various industry sectors in China. As of the date of prospectus, we have two lines of businesses— 1) services to small and medium businesses (“SMEs”), which consists of Anti-Counterfeiting Tax Control System (“ACTCS”) tax devices, including Golden Tax Disk (“GTD”) and printers, ACTCS services, and IT services, and 2) services to large businesses, which consists of hardware sales and software sales. We expect to actively develop our system integration services and online service platform in the near future. Our vision is to become a one-stop consulting destination for holistic IT and other business consulting services in China.

 

Our VIE entity, HiTek, is authorized to carry out the sales of Golden Tax Disk and a market leader in the Xiamen metropolitan area with respect to ACTCS tax device and services since 1996. We provide our customers with the necessary ACTCS for their value added tax (“VAT”) reporting, collection and processing. VAT reporting is mandatory for all business enterprises in China. The ACTCS is one of the two major VAT control systems that a business entity may choose to comply with the VAT reporting requirements. Developed by the PRC government, ACTCS was intended to effectively eliminate counterfeit invoices, providing accurate and complete tax information for the regional and national audit system. We are authorized by the State Taxation Bureau, Xiamen Branch, as one of the first ACTCS service providers in the Xiamen metropolitan area. GTD is an ACTCS device necessary for normal operation of ACTCS software. The purchase of GTD is allowed only in conjunction with the use of the ACTCS software and its supporting services.  Since 1996, we have been the number one ACTCS services provider for Xiamen business enterprises according to the data compiled by Xiamen Province Taxation Bureau.

 

Complementing our physical service center, we started developing online service center in 2018 to enable tens of thousands of businesses in the Xiamen metropolitan area to securely process VAT reporting and payment from their desktop virtually anytime and anywhere. Currently, our customers range from small, medium to large enterprises across industries in the Xiamen metropolitan area. Coupled with our first-mover advantage, this broad applicability has been driving our client base, resulting around 49 , 791 active users, which accounted for approximately 40% of Xiamen’s tax collection market in 2017 according to the Xiamen Province Taxation Bureau’s statistics.

  

Since the beginning of 2017, HiTek has also generated revenue from its IT service business provided to SMEs in Xiamen area. HiTek provides outsourced IT support and maintenance services for its clients. HiTek’s IT service business is directly responsible for, without limitation, periodically check, daily repairing and maintenance service, technical support for client’s IT facilities and IT disaster recovery.

 

As part of the services provided to large businesses, HiTek currently sells Communication Interface System(“CIS”), its self-developed software which provides embedded system interface solutions for large businesses. CIS is a universal embedded interface system used in petrochemical and coal businesses to collect industrial, electricity, facility pressure and temperature statistics and convert to readable format for analytical purposes.

 

 

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As part of our services provided to large businesses, Huasheng currently sells hardware such as laptops, printers, desktop computers and associated accessories, together with certain internet servers, cameras and monitors. Huasheng’s major business strategy in its market is to connect and source through exclusive relationships with manufacturers so that Huasheng can offer competitively priced hardware. Huasheng has established its online support system in the beginning of 2018. The online system further enhances Huasheng’s customer experience, which is complemented by highly trained professionals and attractive physical store environment.

 

We have experienced stable growth since our inception. For the six months ended June 30, 2018, we generated revenue of 3,463,739 (unaudited). We generated revenues of $6,887,375 and $6,895,212, for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively. For the six months ended June 30, 2018, our net income was 1,273,339 (unaudited). For the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, our net income was $2,135,239 and $380,021, respectively.

 

For the six months ended June 30, 2018, Hitek two business lines operated in four revenue streams: (1) services to large businesses-- hardware sales (31.2%), software sales (20.2%), and (2) services to SMEs-- IT services (13.4%), ACTCS devices and services (35.2%). For the year ended December 31, 2017, HiTek’s two business lines operated in four revenue streams: (1) services to large businesses-- hardware sales (36.4%), software sales (19%), and (2) services to SMEs-- IT services (11.4%), ACTCS devices and services (33.3%). For the year ended December 31, 2016, HiTek’s two business lines operated in three revenue streams – (1) services to large businesses-- hardware sales (60.6%), software sales (3.8%), and (2) services to SMEs-- ACTCS devices and services (35.6%). HiTek’s revenue streams are strategic business revenue under its services to large businesses and services to SMEs.

 

Our Competitive Strengths

 

We believe we have significant advantages that will enable us to continue our market leadership in ACTCS tax device and services and continue our business prosperity:

 

  First Move Advantage. We are one of the first businesses that started ACTCS business in the Xiamen metropolitan areas in 1996. We accumulated our client base and maintained our business edge since then. Since inception, Hitek has invested approximately $300,000 in research and development to build our ACTCS supporting software, which are free and complement our ACTCS services. Over the past 22 years, we have built a strong reputation amongst tax/finance professionals in the Xiamen metropolitan area. According to the Xiamen Province Taxation Bureau’s statistics, we believe we had approximately 40% of Xiamen’s tax collection market shares in 2017. We have relied upon referrals from tax or accounting professionals that we have worked with or served, leveraging our client base to expand our business.

 

  Visionary Management Team. We have a sophisticated and long-serving management team who have led us through multiple business breakthroughs. Most of our senior management team has served us for around 20 years and with significant experience in many influential engineering and IT projects in China.

 

  Highly-Capable Employees. As of June 30, 2018, we had 3 full-time research and development professionals; 65% of our employees held Bachelor’s degrees and 26% of our employees held Master’s degrees or Ph.D.’s. Our IT professionals are critical in resolving complex IT issues for our clients. They are essential for advancing our IT service business.

 

  Carefully Planned Referral Network. Our carefully planned and implemented marketing efforts have led to a stronger referral base service, better networking opportunities, increased customer volume, and improved client satisfaction through frequent in-person shop visits near governmental tax agencies by our loyal customers and local tax officials.

 

While we are confident that our competitive strengths will continue improving our business, we are keenly aware of the challenges that our business faces, especially the challenges in our services to SMEs which are stemmed from the ACTCS services. The services provided to the SMEs are restricted in the Xiamen metropolitan areas since we are only authorized by the State Taxation Bureau, Xiamen Branch to provide ACTCS services which is the cornerstone of our services to the SMEs. Prices of GTD and ACTCS annual service fees are regulated and subject to the State Tax Administration’s pricing mandates. We are not able to adjust such pricing and as such our profit margin is limited. In recent years, the Chinese tax regulators have been rolling out the electronic invoicing system. Increasing use of electronic invoices will reduce our SME client base by around 5% in the future since electronic invoicing system will enable some of our existing clients to apply for, issue, transfer and check the invoices through the unified online electronic invoice management system of Chinese tax authorities. Our client base growth may be limited in spite of our diligent marketing efforts since it is beyond our control how many new SMEs will open each year in the Xiaman metropolitan area. 

  

Our Business Strategies

 

We intend to drive the growth of our business by executing on the following strategies:

 

  Leveraging our existing ACTCS client base to deepen our relationship with our ACTCS clients and expanding our service and hardware sales offerings. As an ACTCS devices and service provider, we currently work with approximately 50,000 ACTCS clients based in Xiamen that we believe have a wide range of organizational service needs and needs for various hardware products and systems to support their organizations. We expect such service needs to include, without limitation, technology- and finance-related organization needs. Leveraging our existing well-recognized service reputation in the ACTCS industry, we believe that we can deepen our relationship with existing ACTCS clients to provide expanded service offerings to respond to their business, finance, technology and organizational needs.

 

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  Broadening our geographic coverage with our online service platform to become a full-service platform with national coverage. In May 2018, we launched our online service platform capable of servicing the needs of our ACTCS customers primarily through online customer and technical support, and covering various aspects of the VAT filing process, we intend to support more service offerings for our customers. We are having various software programs in progress and setting up online customer support processes, which combined together are expected to provide full-service support with respect to tax, finance and IT services. We intend to offer our clients connection to other local, third-party service providers through our online platform, so that they are able to seek business, technology and operational support via our online service platform. We believe this will enable our expansion beyond the Xiamen market to reach national service coverage.

 

  In the next few years, we plan to complete our full-service platform and aim to transfer 85% of our clients onto the platform. We plan to offer business management service, such as agent accounting services and online IT outsourcing services to the SME clients using our ACTCS services. We also plan to expand our service to large businesses to other geographic regions.

 

Our History and Corporate Structure

 

We were incorporated in the Cayman Islands on November 3, 2017. Hitek Hong Kong Limited (“HiTek HK”), our wholly-owned subsidiary, was incorporated in Hong Kong on November 20, 2017. Tian Dahai (Xiamen) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (“WFOE”), HiTek HK’s wholly owned subsidiary, was organized pursuant to PRC laws on March 15, 2018. Our variable interest entity, Xiamen Hengda HiTek Computer Network Co., Ltd., which we refer to as HiTek, was established on January 18, 1996 in Xiamen, Fujian Province, PRC pursuant to PRC laws. HiTek’s shareholders include certain PRC residents and corporate entities controlled by PRC residents.

 

On March 31, 2018, the Company consummated a reorganization pursuant to which, WFOE, HiTek and HiTek’s shareholders entered into a series of contractual arrangements. Such agreements are described under “Business — Contractual Agreements between WFOE and HiTek. Hitek Global Inc. is a holding company with no business operation other than holding the shares in Hitek HK and Hitek HK is a pass-through entity with no business operation. WFOE is exclusively engaged in the business of managing the operation of HiTek.

 

Our corporate structure as of the date of this prospectus is as follows:

 

 

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Corporate Information

 

Our principal executive offices are located at Unit 304, No. 30 Guanri Road, Siming District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, People’s Republic of China, and our phone number is + 86 0592-5080796. We maintain a corporate website at http://www.xmhitek.com/ . The information contained in, or accessible from, our website or any other website does not constitute a part of this prospectus.

 

We will be a “controlled company” as defined under the NASDAQ Stock Market Rules because Shenping Yin and Xiaoyang Huang, who are husband and wife, will beneficially own more than 50% of voting power for the election of directors.

 

Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company, a Foreign Private Issuer and a Controlled Company

 

We qualify as an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act. An emerging growth company may take advantage of specified reduced reporting and other burdens that are otherwise applicable generally to public companies. These provisions include:

 

  a requirement to have only two years of audited financial statements and only two years of related selected financial data and management’s discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations disclosure;

 

  an exemption from the auditor attestation requirement in the assessment of our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002;

 

  an exemption from implementation of new or revised accounting standards until they would apply to private companies and from compliance with any new requirements adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board requiring mandatory audit firm rotation;

 

  reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation arrangements; and

 

  no requirement to seek nonbinding advisory votes on executive compensation or golden parachute arrangements.

 

We have elected to avail ourselves of the extended transition period for implementing new or revised financial accounting standards. We may take advantage of some or all of the other provisions described above until we are no longer an emerging growth company. We will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier to occur of (1) (a) the last day of the fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the closing of this offering, (b) the last day of the fiscal year in which our annual gross revenue is $1.07 billion or more, or (c) the date on which we are deemed to be a “large accelerated filer,” under the rules of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, which means the market value of our equity securities that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the prior July 31st, and (2) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt during the prior three-year period.

 

We are a foreign private issuer within the meaning of the rules under the Exchange Act, and as such we are exempt from certain provisions of the securities rules and regulations in the United States that are applicable to U.S. domestic issuers. Moreover, the information we are required to file with or furnish to the SEC will be less extensive and less timely compared to that required to be filed with the SEC by U.S. domestic issuers. In addition, as a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands, we are permitted to adopt certain home country practices in relation to corporate governance matters that differ significantly from the Nasdaq listing standards. Following this offering, we intend to rely on home country practice to be exempted from the corporate governance requirements that we have a majority of independent directors on our board of directors and the audit committee of our board of directors has a minimum of three members. As a result, we will not have a majority of independent directors and our audit committee will consist of two independent directors instead of three members. These practices may afford less protection to shareholders than they would enjoy if we complied fully with the Nasdaq listing standards.

 

Upon the completion of this offering, our outstanding share capital will consist of Class A ordinary shares and Class B ordinary shares, and we will be a “controlled company” as defined under the Nasdaq Stock Market Rules because Mr. Yinping Shen, our founder, the chairman of our board of directors and his wife, Ms. Xiaoyang Huang our chief executive officer, will beneficially own all of our then issued and outstanding Class B ordinary shares and will be able to exercise [ ]% of our total voting power assuming the underwriters do not exercise their over-allotment option, or [ ]% of our total voting power if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full. Under the Nasdaq Stock Market Rules, a “controlled company” may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements. Currently, we do not plan to utilize the “controlled company” exemptions with respect to our corporate governance practice after we complete this offering.

 

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THE OFFERING

  

Class A Ordinary Shares offered by us   A minimum of [●] million Class A Ordinary Shares and a maximum of [●] million Class A Ordinary Shares.
     
Price per Ordinary Share   Our currently proposed maximum offering price will be US$[●] per Class A Ordinary Share. Our currently proposed minimum offering price will be US$[●] per Class A Ordinary Share.
     
Best efforts   The underwriter is selling our Class A Ordinary Shares on a “best efforts” basis. Accordingly, the underwriter has no obligation or commitment to purchase any securities. The underwriter is not required to sell any specific number of dollar amount of Class A Ordinary Shares but will use its best efforts to sell the Class A Ordinary Shares offered.
     
    We do not intend to close this offering unless we sell at least [●], the minimum number of Class A Ordinary Share, at the price per Ordinary Share set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, to result in sufficient proceeds to list our Class A Ordinary Shares on the NASDAQ Capital Market.
     
Offering period   The Class A Ordinary Shares are being offered for a period of 90 days commencing from the effective date of this registration statement. If the minimum offering amount is not raised within 90 days from the effective date of this registration statement, all subscription funds from the escrow account will be returned to investors promptly without interest or deduction of fees. The offering may close or terminate, as the case may be. If we raise the minimum offering amount within the offering period, the proceeds from the offering will be released to us.
     
Escrow account   The gross proceeds from the sale of the Class A Ordinary Shares in this offering will be deposited in a non-interest bearing escrow account maintained by the escrow agent, [●], at [●]. All check will be deposited directly into the escrow account and all wire transfers will be wired directly to the escrow account. The funds will be held in escrow until the escrow bank, [●], has advised us and the escrow agent that it has received a minimum of $[●], the minimum offering, in cleared funds. If we do not receive the minimum of $[●] by [●], 2018, all funds will be returned to purchasers in this offering on the next business day after the termination of the offering, without charge, deduction or interest. Prior to [●], 2018, in no event will funds be returned to you unless the offering is terminated. You will only be entitled to receive a refund of your subscription price if we do not raise a minimum of $[●] by [●], 2018. No interest will be paid either to us or to you. See “Underwriting — Deposit of Offering Proceeds.”
     
Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately prior to completion of this offering   2,795,679 Class A Ordinary Shares and 8,192,000 Class B Ordinary Shares.

  

 

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Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately after this offering   Minimum Offering: [●] of our Class A Ordinary Shares and [●] of our Class B Ordinary Shares.
     
    Maximum Offering without Over-Subscription Option: [●] of our Class A Ordinary Shares and [●] of our Class B Ordinary Shares.
     
    Maximum Offering with Full Over-Subscription Option: [●] shares of our Class A Ordinary Shares and [●] shares of our Class B Ordinary Shares
     
Listing   We will apply to have our Class A Ordinary Shares listed on Nasdaq Capital Market.
     
Nasdaq Capital Market symbol  

We have reserved the symbol “HKIT”

     
Transfer Agent   V Stock Transfer, LLC
     
Use of proceeds   We intend to use the proceeds from this offering to for working capital and general corporate purposes, including the expansion of our business. To the extent that we are unable to raise the maximum proceeds in this offering, we may not be able to achieve all of our business objectives in a timely manner. See “Use of Proceeds” for more information.
     
Risk factors   The Class A Ordinary Shares offered hereby involve a high degree of risk. You should read “Risk Factors,” beginning on page 8 for a discussion of factors to consider before deciding to invest in our Class A Ordinary Shares.
     
Lock-Up   We, our directors and executive officers, and our existing beneficial owners of 5% or more of our outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares have agreed with the underwriter, subject to certain exceptions, not to sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any Class A Ordinary Shares or similar securities for a period ending 180 days after the commencement of the trading of the Class A Ordinary Shares. See “Underwriting” for more information.

 

 

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Summary Financial Data

 

The following table sets forth selected historical statements of operations for the six months ended June 30, 2018 (unaudited), the year ended December 31, 2017 and the year ended December 31, 2016, and balance sheets data as of June 30, 2018 (unaudited), December 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016, which have been derived from our audited financial statements for those periods. Our historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected in the future. You should read this data together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus as well as “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” appearing elsewhere in the prospectus.

 

    Years Ended     Six months ended  
    December 31,     June 30,  
Consolidated Statement of Operations Data   2017     2016     2018     2017  
               

(unaudited)

   

(unaudited)

 
Revenues     6,887,375       6,895,212       3,463,739       3,181,024  
Cost of revenues     (3,207,554 )     (5,037,261 )     (1,398,288 )     (1,363,918 )
Total operating expenses     (1,082,098 )     (1,444,751 )     (505,465 )     (502,308 )
Total other income     36,124       72,119       (105,933 )     (6,744 )
Income tax expense     (498,608 )     (105,298 )     (180,714 )     (344,939 )
Net income   $ 2,135,239     $ 380,021     $ 1,273,339     $ 963,115  
Earnings per ordinary share                                
– Basic and diluted   $ 0.19     $ 0.03     $ 0.12     $ 0.09  
Weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding                                
– Basic and diluted     10,987,679       10,987,679       10,987,679       10,987,679  

 

    As of December 31,     As of June 30,  
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data   2017     2016     2018  
                (unaudited)  
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 867,570     $ 215,064     $ 369,744  
Total Assets   $ 7,136,383     $ 4,593,590     $ 7,978,292  
Total Liabilities   $ 1,955,935     $ 2,245,176     $ 1,661,278  
Total Shareholders’ Equity   $ 5,180,448     $ 2,348,414     $ 6,317,014  
Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity   $ 7,136,383     $ 4,593,590     $ 7,978,292  

 

 

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RISK FACTORS

 

An investment in our Class A Ordinary Shares involves a high degree of risk. Before deciding whether to invest in our Class A Ordinary Shares, you should consider carefully the risks described below, together with all of the other information set forth in this prospectus, including the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation” and our consolidated financial statements and related notes. If any of these risks actually occurs, our business, financial condition, results of operations or cash flow could be materially and adversely affected, which could cause the trading price of our Class A Ordinary Shares to decline, resulting in a loss of all or part of your investment. The risks described below and in the documents referenced above are not the only ones that we face. Additional risks not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also affect our business. You should only consider investing in our Class A Ordinary Shares if you can bear the risk of loss of your entire investment.

 

Risks Related To Our Business Operations

 

Our future revenues and growth prospects depend on the ACTCS pricing model mandated by the PRC government. If the PRC government continues to reduce the annual fee per user we are allowed to charge, our operations and revenues may be negatively impacted.

 

We sell ACTCS tax devices and provide ACTCS supporting services to our clients. The prices of GTD and annual service fees are regulated and subject to the State Tax Administration’s pricing mandates. In the past 20 years, the annual service fee has undergone three major adjustments -- from RMB 450 per year per user to RMB 370 per year per user, and then further reduced to RMB 330 per year per user. Most recently, the ACTCS annual service fee was again reduced to RMB 280 per year per user, according to the “Notice of the National Development and Reform Commission on Relevant Issues Concerning the Reduction of ACTCS Products and Maintenance Service Fee” (Development and Reform Commission Case [2017] No. 1243). Since we do not control the pricing of the ACTCS services, we cannot guarantee our profit margin will be stable or we will make a profit on such services at all. We cannot guarantee that the annual service fee will not be further reduced, and therefore our revenues to be derived from ACTCS supporting services may be subject to significant fluctuation.

 

Our future revenues and growth prospects depend on the growth of new business entities in the Xiamen metropolitan areas, which is not within our control and the growth rate may decrease. As such, our operations and revenues may be negatively impacted.

 

The willingness of people to establish business entities in the Xiamen metropolitan areas is beyond our control. There are multiple reasons people may find appealing to establish a particular business in the Xiamen metropolitan areas, such as people’s personal belief and volatility in the Chinese capital markets. To the extent that people are unwilling to establish new businesses in the Xiamen metropolitan area either due to political or economic climate, we will not be able to acquire new customers to our ACTCS services. Thus, our ability to generate revenue or operate profitably may be negatively impacted.

 

Increased use of electronic invoice will reduce the number of customers using our ACTCS services.

 

In recent years, the Chinese tax regulators have been rolling out the electronic invoicing system. currently, electronic invoices are mostly used by businesses in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (“FMCG”) industry such as fast food restaurants and coffee shops. The electronic invoices enable FMCG enterprises to apply for, issue, transfer and check the invoices through the unified online electronic invoice management system of Chinese tax authorities. Electronic invoices are very useful in helping business entities reduce operating costs and streamline service process, since they do not involve printing, storage and postage procedures. Businesses who use electronic invoices still need to purchase tax reporting devices such as GTD. But they will not need maintenance services. Currently, approximately 1.5% of our SME clients are FMCG business entities. Increased use of electronic invoices will reduce our annual service fee revenue and thus negatively affect our total revenue.

 

Increasing competition within our industry could have an impact on our business prospects.

 

While the VAT reporting service industry in China is a heavily regulated industry where new players must obtain approval by the relevant PRC government agencies before entering this industry, it is still highly possible that new competitors will enter into the market and have significantly greater financial and other resources than we have and may offer services that is more attractive and more advanced that we can provide for large business enterprises and SMEs. Thus we anticipate increasing competition, which may have a negative impact on both our revenues and our profit margins.

 

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Following this offering, we will be a “controlled company” within the meaning of the NASDAQ Stock Market Rules and, as a result, may rely on exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements that provide protection to shareholders of other companies.

 

Following this offering, we will be a “controlled company” as defined under the NASDAQ Stock Market Rules because two of our principal shareholders, Shenping Yin, our Chairman of the Board, and Xiaoyang Huang our CEO, who are husband and wife, will beneficially own more than 50% of voting power for the election of directors. For so long as we are a controlled company under that definition, we are permitted to elect to rely, and may rely, on certain exemptions from corporate governance rules, including:

 

  an exemption from the rule that a majority of our board of directors must be independent directors ;

 

  an exemption from the rule that the compensation of our chief executive officer must be determined or recommended solely by independent directors; and

 

  an exemption from the rule that our director nominees must be selected or recommended solely by independent directors.

 

As a result, you will not have the same protection afforded to shareholders of companies that are subject to these corporate governance requirements.

 

Economic conditions in China could impact our business and results of operations in both lines of our business

 

Our VIE entity and its subsidiaries’ business and operating results are impacted by Chinese economic conditions, such as a potential general reduction in net disposable income as a result of fiscal measures adopted by Chinese government to address high levels of budgetary indebtedness, which may adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. The most recent global financial crisis and recession resulted in large-scale business failures and tightened credit markets in China, which directly impacts the Chinese IT service market and VAT reporting service industry. Future adverse economic developments in areas such as employment levels, business conditions, interest rates, tax rates, fuel and energy costs and other matters could reduce discretionary spending and cause the industries where we operate to contract.

 

Our IT services and hardware and software sales rely on evolving information technologies to maintain our competitiveness, and any failure to adapt to technological developments or industry trends could harm our business.

 

We depend upon the use of sophisticated information technologies and systems, including technologies and systems utilized for communications, procurement and administrative systems. As our operations grow in both size and scope, we continuously need to improve and upgrade our systems and infrastructure to offer an increasing number of clients enhanced products, services, features and functionality, while maintaining the reliability and integrity of our systems and infrastructure. Our future success in IT services and hardware and software sales also depends on our ability to adapt to rapidly changing technologies, particularly the increasing use of internet-based products and services, to change our services and infrastructure so they address evolving industry standards and to improve the performance, features and reliability of our services in response to competitive service and product offerings in the Chinese software markets and the evolving demands of the IT service markets. If there are technological impediments to introducing new technological products or maintaining current technologies or other products and services, or if these products and services do not meet the requirements of our clients’ evolving needs, our business, financial condition or results of operations may be adversely affected.

 

In addition, the emergence of competitors who may be able to optimize products, services or strategies that use advanced computing such as cloud computing, as well as other technological changes and developing technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, have, and will mandate us to make new and costly investments. Transitioning to new technologies may be disruptive to resources and the services we provide, and may increase our reliance on third party service providers. We may not be successful, or may be less successful than our current or new competitors, in developing technology that operates effectively across multiple devices and platforms and that is appealing to our customers, either of which would negatively affect our business and financial performance.

 

It is possible that, if we are not able to maintain existing systems, obtain new technologies and systems, or replace or introduce new technologies and systems as quickly as our competitors or in a cost-effective manner, our business and operations could be materially adversely affected. Also, we may not achieve the benefits anticipated or required from any new technology or system, or be able to devote financial resources to new technologies and systems in the future.

 

We are dependent upon software, equipment and services provided by third parties.

 

We are dependent upon software, equipment and services provided and/or managed by third parties in the operation of our business. In the event that the performance of such software, equipment or services provided and/or managed by third parties deteriorates or our arrangements with any of these third parties related to the provision and/or management of software, equipment or services are terminated, we may not be able to find alternative services, equipment or software on a timely basis or on commercially reasonable terms, or at all, or be able to do so without significant cost or disruptions to our business, and our relationships with our customers may be adversely impacted.

  

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A significant portion of our revenue is concentrated on a few large customers, and we do not have long-term service agreements with our key customers and rely upon our longstanding relationship with them. If we lose one or more of our customers, our results of operations may be adversely and materially impacted.

 

For the six months ended June 30, 2018, two customers represented approximately 12% and 13% of HiTek’s revenue and one customer, a related party of the HiTek, represented approximately 14% of HiTek’s revenue. For the year ended December 31, 2017, four of our customers represented approximately 11%, 5%, 5% and 5% of HiTek’s revenue, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2016, three of our customers, represented approximately 26%, 10% and 3% of HiTek’s revenue, respectively. Since we do not have long-term customer supply agreements with such large customers and rely primarily upon our goodwill and reputation to sustain the business relationship, our results of operations may be adversely and materially impacted if one or more of these customers stop purchasing from us.

 

We source our retail hardware primarily from a limited number of suppliers. If we lose one or more of the suppliers, our operation may be disrupted, and our results of operations may be adversely and materially impacted.

 

For the six months ended June 30, 2018, one supplier accounted for 10% of the total purchases. For the year ended December 31, 2017, five of our suppliers accounted for 10%, 8%, 6%, 6% and 5% of the total purchases. For the year ended December 31, 2016, five suppliers accounted for 34%, 15%, 4%, 3% and 3% of the total purchases. If we lose suppliers and are unable to swiftly engage new suppliers, our operations may be disrupted or suspended, and we may not be able to deliver hardware products to our customers on time. We may also have to pay a higher price to source from a different supplier on short notice. While we are actively searching for and negotiating with new suppliers, there is no guarantee that we will be able to locate appropriate new suppliers or supplier merger targets in our desired timeline. As such, our results of operations may be adversely and materially impacted.

 

We may need additional capital to fund our future operations and, if it is not available when needed, we may need to reduce our planned expansion and marketing efforts, which may reduce our revenue.

 

We believe that our existing working capital and cash available from operations will enable us to meet our working capital requirements for at least the next 12 months. However, if cash from future operations is insufficient, or if cash is used for acquisitions or other currently unanticipated uses, we may need additional capital. As a result, we could be required to raise additional capital. To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, the issuance of such securities could result in dilution of the shares held by existing shareholders. If additional funds are raised through the issuance of debt or equity securities, such securities may provide the holders certain rights, preferences, and privileges senior to those of shareholders holding Class A Ordinary Shares, and the terms of any such debt securities could impose restrictions on our operations. We cannot assure you that additional capital, if required, will be available on acceptable terms, or at all. If we are unable to obtain sufficient amounts of additional capital, we may be required to reduce the scope of our planned product development and marketing efforts, which could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

 

If we are unable to manage our anticipated growth effectively, our business could be adversely affected.

 

In order to develop our business, we need to hire and retain key managers and executives in all areas of our operations. Our future operating results depend to a large extent on our ability to develop and manage expansion and growth successfully. For us to manage such growth, we must put in place legal and accounting systems, and implement human resource management and other tools. We have taken preliminary steps to put this structure in place. However, there is no assurance that we will be able to expand our business or successfully manage any growth that may result. Failure to expand our operations or manage our growth effectively could materially and adversely affect our ability to market our services in multiple venues.

  

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Because we rely upon a third party to perform the payment processing for our clients, the failure or inability of the third party to provide these services could impair our ability to operate.

 

Because we do not possess an internal payment method, all payments by participants are processed by third parties such as Alipay and WeChat Pay. The payment processing business is highly regulated, and it is subject to a number of risks that could materially and adversely affect their abilities to provide payment processing and escrow services to us, including:

 

  increased regulatory focus and the requirement that it comply with numerous complex and evolving laws, rules and regulations;
     
  increases in the costs to the third party, including fees charged by banks to process funds through the third parties, which could result in increased costs to us and to our participants;
     
  dissatisfaction with the third parties’ services;
     
  a decline in the use of the third parties’ services generally which could result in increases in costs to users such as us and our participants;
     
  the ability of the third parties to maintain adequate security procedures to prevent the hacking or other unauthorized access to account and other information provided by us and the participants who use the system;
     
  system failures or failure to effectively scale the system to handle large and growing transaction volumes;
     
  the failure or inability of the third parties to manage funds accurately or the loss of funds by the third parties, whether due to employee fraud, security breaches, technical errors or otherwise; and
     
  the failure or inability of these third parties to adequately manage business and regulatory risks.

 

We rely on the convenience and ease of use that third parties payment methods provide to our users. If the quality, utility, convenience or attractiveness of these payment services declines for any reason, the attractiveness of our services could be materially impaired. If we need to migrate to other third-party payment services for any reason, the transition could require considerable time and management resources, and the third-party payment services may not be as effective, efficient or well-received by our clients. Further, our clients may be reluctant to use a different payment system.

 

Our success depends substantially on the continued retention of certain key personnel and our ability to hire and retain qualified personnel in the future to support our growth and execute our business strategy.

 

If one or more of our senior executives or other key personnel are unable or unwilling to continue in their present positions, our business may be disrupted and our financial condition and results of operations may be materially and adversely affected. While we depend on the abilities and participation of our current management team generally, we rely particularly upon Mr. Shenping Yin, Chairman of the Board and Ms. Xiaoyang Huang, our chief executive officer who is responsible for the development and implementation of our business plan. The loss of the services of Mr. Yin for any reason could significantly adversely impact our business and results of operations. Competition for senior management and senior technology personnel in the PRC is intense and the pool of qualified candidates is very limited. We cannot assure you that the services of our senior executives and other key personnel will continue to be available to us, or that we will be able to find a suitable replacement for them if they were to leave.

 

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We may not be able to adequately protect our intellectual property rights, and our competitors may be able to offer similar products and services, which would harm our competitive position.

 

Our success depends in part upon our intellectual property rights. We rely primarily on copyright, trade secret laws, confidentiality procedures, license agreements and contractual provisions to establish and protect our proprietary rights over our products, procedures and services. Other persons could copy or otherwise obtain and use our technology without authorization, or develop similar IP independently. We may also pursue the registration of our domain names, trademarks, and service marks in other jurisdictions, including the United States. However, the intellectual property laws in China are not considered as strong as comparable laws in the United States or the European Union. We cannot assure you that we will be able to protect our proprietary rights. Further, our competitors may be able to independently develop similar or more advanced technology, duplicate our products and services or design around any intellectual property rights we hold. Further, our intellectual property rights may be subject to termination or expirations. The loss of intellectual property protections or the inability to timely regain intellectual property protections could harm our business and ability to compete.

 

Since Mr. Shenping Yin, Chairman of the Board will own more than [●]% of our Class A Ordinary Shares following the sale of the maximum offering, he will have the ability to elect directors and approve matters requiring shareholder approval.

 

Mr. Shenping Yin, Chairman of the Board, and his wife Ms. Xiaoyang Huang are currently the beneficial owner of 8,192,000 Class B ordinary share or 74.55 % of our outstanding shares, which are directly held by Fortune Enterprise Holdings Limited, an entity 100% owned by Mr. Yin and Ms. Huang. If we sell the minimum number of Class A Ordinary Shares, Mr. Yin will have the right to vote [●]% of the Class A Ordinary Shares; if we sell the maximum number of Class A Ordinary Shares, he will have the right to vote [●]% of the Class A Ordinary Shares. As result, Mr. Yin will be able to exert significant voting influence over fundamental and significant corporate matters and transactions. Depending on the percentage, he may have the power to elect all directors and approve all matters requiring shareholder approval without the votes of any other shareholder. He will have significant influence over a decision to enter into any corporate transaction and has the ability to prevent any transaction that requires the approval of shareholders, regardless of whether or not our other shareholders believe that such transaction is in our best interests. Such concentration of voting power could have the effect of delaying, deterring, or preventing a change of control or other business combination, which could, in turn, have an adverse effect on the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares or prevent our shareholders from realizing a premium over the then-prevailing market price for their Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

Risks Relating to Doing Business in the PRC

 

There may be changes in the regulations of PRC government bodies and agencies relating to VAT collection procedure and ACTCS business

 

PRC laws, regulations and policies concerning VAT collection procedures and ACTCS business are evolving and the PRC government authorities may promulgate new laws, regulations and policies in the future. We cannot assure you that our practices would not be deemed to violate any PRC laws, regulations or policies either now or in the future.

 

Moreover, developments in the ACTCS service industry may lead to changes in PRC laws, regulations and policies or in the interpretation and application of existing laws, regulations and policies, which may limit or restrict the ACTCS hardware and services we offer. Furthermore, we cannot rule out the possibility that the PRC government will institute a new licensing regime covering services we provide in the future. If such a licensing regime were introduced, we cannot assure you that we would be able to obtain any newly required license in a timely manner, or at all, which could materially and adversely affect our business and impede our ability to continue our operations.

 

There are significant uncertainties under the Draft Foreign Investment Law relating to the status of businesses in China controlled by foreign invested projects primarily through contractual arrangements, such as our business.

 

On January 19, 2015, Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (“MOFCOM”) published a draft of the PRC Law on Foreign Investment (Draft for Comment), or the Draft Foreign Investment Law. At the same time, MOFCOM published an accompanying explanatory note of the Draft Foreign Investment Law, or the Explanatory Note, which contains important information about the Draft Foreign Investment Law, including its drafting philosophy and principles, main content, plans to transition to the new legal regime and treatment of business in China controlled by foreign invested projects, or FIEs, primarily through contractual arrangements. The Draft Foreign Investment Law utilizes the concept of “actual control” for determining whether an entity is considered to be a foreign-invested project, and defines “control” broadly to include, among other things, voting or board control through contractual arrangements.

   

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The Draft Foreign Investment Law proposes significant changes to the PRC foreign investment legal regime and may have a material impact on Chinese companies listed or to be listed overseas. The Draft Foreign Investment Law would regulate FIEs the same way as PRC domestic entities, except for those FIEs that operate in industries deemed to be either “restricted” or “prohibited” in a “negative list.” Because the negative list has yet to be published, it is unclear whether it will differ from the current list of industries subject to restrictions or prohibitions on foreign investment. The Draft Foreign Investment Law also provides that only FIEs operating in industries on the negative list will require entry clearance and other approvals that are not required of PRC domestic entities. As a result of the entry clearance and approvals, certain FIE’s operating in industries on the negative list may not be able to continue to conduct their operations through contractual arrangements. It states that entities established in China but controlled by foreign investors will be treated as foreign-invested projects, while entities set up outside of China which are controlled by PRC persons or entities, would be treated as domestic projects after completion of market entry procedures.

 

There is substantial uncertainty regarding the Draft Foreign Investment Law, including, among others, what the actual content of the law will be as well as the adoption and effective date of the final form of the law. As a result, we cannot assure you that the new Foreign Investment Law, when it becomes effective, will not have a material and adverse effect on our ability to conduct our business through our contractual arrangements.

 

The Draft Foreign Investment Law, if enacted as proposed, may also materially impact our corporate governance practice and increase our compliance costs. For instance, the Draft Foreign Investment Law imposes stringent ad hoc and periodic information reporting requirements on both foreign investors and the FIE subject to the law. Aside from an investment implementation report and an investment amendment report that are required for each investment and alteration of investment specifics, an annual report is mandatory, and large foreign investors meeting certain criteria are required to report on a quarterly basis. Any company found to be non-compliant with these information reporting obligations may potentially be subject to fines and/or administrative or criminal liabilities, and the persons directly responsible may be subject to criminal liabilities.

 

Further, if we are deemed to have a non-PRC entity as a controlling shareholder, the provisions regarding control through contractual arrangements could reach our VIE arrangements, and as a result HiTek could become subject to restrictions on foreign investment, which may materially impact the viability of our current and operations. Specifically, we may be required to modify our corporate structure, change our current scope of operations, obtain approvals or face penalties or other additional requirements, compared to entities which do have PRC controlling shareholders. Substantial uncertainties exist with respect to the enactment timetable, interpretation and implementation of draft PRC Foreign Investment Law and how it may impact the viability of our current corporate structure, corporate governance and business operations.

 

It is uncertain whether we would be considered as ultimately controlled by Chinese parties. Mr. Yin and Ms. Huang, our chairman and CEO who are both PRC citizens, beneficially and indirectly owns 74.55% of our outstanding voting securities. It is uncertain, however, if these factors would be sufficient to give Mr. Yin control over us under the Draft Foreign Investment Law. Moreover, the Draft Foreign Investment Law has not taken a position on what actions will be taken with respect to the companies currently employing a VIE structure, whether or not these companies are controlled by Chinese parties, while it is soliciting comments from the public on this point. In addition, it is uncertain whether the tax control industry, in which our variable interest entity operates, will be subject to the foreign investment restrictions or prohibitions set forth in the “negative list” that is to be issued. If the enacted version of the Foreign Investment Law and the final “negative list” mandate further actions, such as MOFCOM market entry clearance or certain restructuring of our corporate structure and operations there may be substantial uncertainties as to whether we can complete these actions in a timely manner, if at all, and our business and financial condition may be materially and adversely affected.

   

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If we are ultimately considered a Foreign Invested Enterprise deemed to operate in either a “restricted” or “prohibited” industry, we may no longer conduct the business pursuant to a VIE structure, which in turn would materially impact our results of operations, as well as the value of your Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

Among other things, the Draft Foreign Investment Law expands the definition of foreign investment and introduces the principle of “actual control” in determining whether a company is considered a foreign-invested enterprise, or an FIE. Under the Draft Foreign Investment Law, variable interest entities would also be deemed as FIEs, if they are ultimately “controlled” by foreign investors, and be subject to restrictions on foreign investments. According to the Draft Foreign Investment Law, the State Council will determine a list of industry categories that are subject to special administrative measures, which is referred to as a “negative list”, consisting of a list of industry categories where foreign investments are strictly prohibited, or the “prohibited list” and a list of industry categories where foreign investments are subject to certain restrictions, or the “restricted list”. The Draft Foreign Investment Law provides that FIEs operating in industries on the “negative list” will require entry clearance and other approvals that are not required of PRC domestic entities. As a result of the entry clearance and approvals, certain FIE’s operating in industries on the “negative list” may not be able to continue to conduct their operations through contractual arrangements.

 

It is uncertain whether the VAT reporting service industry, in which our variable interest entity operates will be subject to the foreign investment restrictions or prohibitions set forth in the “negative list” that is to be issued. If the enacted version of the Foreign Investment Law and the final “negative list” mandate further actions, such as MOFCOM market entry clearance, to be completed by companies with existing VIE structure like us, we will face uncertainties as to whether such clearance can be timely obtained, or at all. Furthermore, due to lack of guidance under this draft law, we are unable to ascertain the controlling status of our company although Mr. Yin, our Chairman of the Board and a PRC citizen, beneficially and indirectly owns approximately 74.5 % of our outstanding voting securities before this offering, and we cannot assure you of the controlling status of our company after the completion of this offering. Therefore, if we are ultimately considered a foreign invested enterprise deemed to operate in either a “restricted” or “prohibited” industry, we may no longer conduct the business pursuant to a VIE structure and we could be subject to severe penalties or be forced to relinquish our interests in relevant industries, which in turn would materially impact our results of operations, as well as the value of your Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

Changes in the policies of the PRC government could have a significant impact upon our ability to operate profitably in the PRC.

 

We conduct all of our operations and all of our revenue is generated in the PRC. Accordingly, economic, political and legal developments in the PRC will significantly affect our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects. Policies of the PRC government can have significant effects on economic conditions in the PRC and the ability of businesses to operate profitably. Our ability to operate profitably in the PRC may be adversely affected by changes in policies by the PRC government, including changes in laws, regulations or their interpretation, particularly those dealing with the Internet, including censorship and other restriction on material which can be transmitted over the Internet, security, intellectual property, money laundering, taxation and other laws that affect our ability to operate our website.

 

Because our business is dependent upon government policies that encourage a market-based economy, change in the political or economic climate in the PRC may impair our ability to operate profitably, if at all.

 

Although the PRC government has been pursuing a number of economic reform policies for more than two decades, the PRC government continues to exercise significant control over economic growth in the PRC. Because of the nature of our business, we are dependent upon the PRC government pursuing policies that encourage private ownership of businesses. Restrictions on private ownership of businesses would affect the VAT filing and collection in general and businesses using ACTCS in particular. We cannot assure you that the PRC government will pursue policies favoring a market oriented economy or that existing policies will not be significantly altered, especially in the event of a change in leadership, social or political disruption, or other circumstances affecting political, economic and social life in the PRC.

 

PRC laws and regulations governing our current business operations are sometimes vague and uncertain and any changes in such laws and regulations may impair our ability to operate profitable.

 

There are substantial uncertainties regarding the interpretation and application of PRC laws and regulations including, but not limited to, the laws and regulations governing our business and the enforcement and performance of our arrangements with customers in certain circumstances. The laws and regulations are sometimes vague and may be subject to future changes, and their official interpretation and enforcement may involve substantial uncertainty. The effectiveness and interpretation of newly enacted laws or regulations, including amendments to existing laws and regulations, may be delayed, and our business may be affected if we rely on laws and regulations which are subsequently adopted or interpreted in a manner different from our understanding of these laws and regulations. New laws and regulations that affect existing and proposed future businesses may also be applied retroactively. We cannot predict what effect the interpretation of existing or new PRC laws or regulations may have on our business.

  

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Regulations relating to offshore investment activities by PRC residents may limit our ability to acquire PRC companies and could adversely affect our business.

 

In July 2014, SAFE promulgated the Circular on Issues Concerning Foreign Exchange Administration Over the Overseas Investment and Financing and Roundtrip Investment by Domestic Residents Via Special Purpose Vehicles, or Circular 37, which replaced Relevant Issues Concerning Foreign Exchange Control on Domestic Residents’ Corporate Financing and Roundtrip Investment through Offshore Special Purpose Vehicles, or Circular 75. Circular 37 requires PRC residents to register with local branches of SAFE in connection with their direct establishment or indirect control of an offshore entity, referred to in Circular 37 as a “special purpose vehicle” for the purpose of holding domestic or offshore assets or interests. Circular 37 further requires amendment to a PRC resident’s registration in the event of any significant changes with respect to the special purpose vehicle, such as an increase or decrease in the capital contributed by PRC individuals, share transfer or exchange, merger, division or other material event. Under these regulations, PRC residents’ failure to comply with specified registration procedures may result in restrictions being imposed on the foreign exchange activities of the relevant PRC entity, including the payment of dividends and other distributions to its offshore parent, as well as restrictions on capital inflows from the offshore entity to the PRC entity, including restrictions on its ability to contribute additional capital to its PRC subsidiaries. Further, failure to comply with the SAFE registration requirements could result in penalties under PRC law for evasion of foreign exchange regulations.

 

Mr. Shenping Yin and Ms. Xiaoyang Huang, together with other ten PRC residents, who are our beneficial owners, have filed applications for Circular 37 registration, and our PRC counsel believes that there is no substantial legal impediment to the registration of the aforementioned beneficial owners’ Circular 37 registration. However, as the promulgation of Circular 37 is relatively recent, it is unclear how these regulations will be interpreted and implemented. We cannot assure you that our ultimate shareholders who are PRC residents will in the future provide sufficient supporting documents required by the SAFE or complete the required registration with the SAFE in a timely manner, or at all. Any failure by any of our shareholders who is a PRC resident, or is controlled by a PRC resident, to comply with relevant requirements under these regulations could subject us to fines or sanctions imposed by the PRC government, including restrictions on WFOE’s ability to pay dividends or make distributions to us and on our ability to increase our investment in the WFOE.

 

Although we believe that our agreements relating to our structure are in compliance with current PRC regulations, we cannot assure you that the PRC government would agree that these contractual arrangements comply with PRC licensing, registration or other regulatory requirements, with existing policies or with requirements or policies that may be adopted in the future.

 

Because our business is conducted in RMB and the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares is quoted in United States dollars, changes in currency conversion rates may affect the value of your investments.

 

Our business is conducted in the PRC, our books and records are maintained in RMB, which is the currently of the PRC, and the financial statements that we file with the SEC and provide to our shareholders are presented in United States dollars. Changes in the exchange rate between the RMB and dollar affect the value of our assets and the results of our operations in United States dollars. The value of the RMB against the United States dollar and other currencies may fluctuate and is affected by, among other things, changes in the PRC’s political and economic conditions and perceived changes in the economy of the PRC and the United States. Any significant revaluation of the RMB may materially and adversely affect our cash flows, revenue and financial condition. Further, our Class A Ordinary Shares offered by this prospectus are offered in United States dollars, we will need to convert the net proceeds we receive into RMB in order to use the funds for our business. Changes in the conversion rate between the United States dollar and the RMB will affect that amount of proceeds we will have available for our business.

 

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Under the PRC Enterprise Income Tax Law, or the EIT Law, we may be classified as a “resident enterprise” of China, which could result in unfavorable tax consequences to us and our non-PRC shareholders.

 

The EIT Law and its implementing rules provide that enterprises established outside of China whose “de facto management bodies” are located in China are considered “resident enterprises” under PRC tax laws. The implementing rules promulgated under the EIT Law define the term “de facto management bodies” as a management body which substantially manages, or has control over the business, personnel, finance and assets of an enterprise. In April 2009, the State Administration of Taxation, or SAT, issued a circular, known as Circular 82, which provides certain specific criteria for determining whether the “de facto management bodies” of a PRC-controlled enterprise that is incorporated offshore is located in China. However, there are no further detailed rules or precedents governing the procedures and specific criteria for determining “de facto management body.” Although our board of directors and management are located in the PRC, it is unclear if the PRC tax authorities would determine that we should be classified as a PRC “resident enterprise.”

 

If we are deemed as a PRC “resident enterprise,” we will be subject to PRC enterprise income tax on our worldwide income at a uniform tax rate of 25%, although dividends distributed to us from our existing PRC subsidiary and any other PRC subsidiaries which we may establish from time to time could be exempt from the PRC dividend withholding tax due to our PRC “resident recipient” status. This could have a material and adverse effect on our overall effective tax rate, our income tax expenses and our net income. Furthermore, dividends, if any, paid to our shareholders may be decreased as a result of the decrease in distributable profits. In addition, if we were considered a PRC “resident enterprise”, any dividends we pay to our non-PRC investors, and the gains realized from the transfer of our Class A Ordinary Shares may be considered income derived from sources within the PRC and be subject to PRC tax, at a rate of 10% in the case of non-PRC enterprises or 20% in the case of non-PRC individuals (in each case, subject to the provisions of any applicable tax treaty). It is unclear whether holders of our Class A Ordinary Shares would be able to claim the benefits of any tax treaties between their country of tax residence and the PRC in the event that we are treated as a PRC resident enterprise. This could have a material and adverse effect on the value of your investment in us and the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

There are significant uncertainties under the EIT Law relating to the withholding tax liabilities of our PRC subsidiary, and dividends payable by our PRC subsidiary to our offshore subsidiaries may not qualify to enjoy certain treaty benefits.

 

Under the PRC EIT Law and its implementation rules, the profits of a foreign invested enterprise generated through operations, which are distributed to its immediate holding company outside the PRC, will be subject to a withholding tax rate of 10%. Pursuant to a special arrangement between Hong Kong and the PRC, such rate may be reduced to 5% if a Hong Kong resident enterprise owns more than 25% of the equity interest in the PRC company. Our PRC subsidiary is wholly-owned by our Hong Kong subsidiary. Moreover, under the Notice of the State Administration of Taxation on Issues regarding the Administration of the Dividend Provision in Tax Treaties promulgated on February 20, 2009, the tax payer needs to satisfy certain conditions to enjoy the benefits under a tax treaty. These conditions include: (1) the taxpayer must be the beneficial owner of the relevant dividends, and (2) the corporate shareholder to receive dividends from the PRC subsidiary must have continuously met the direct ownership thresholds during the 12 consecutive months preceding the receipt of the dividends. Further, the State Administration of Taxation promulgated the Notice on How to Understand and Recognize the “Beneficial Owner” in Tax Treaties on October 27, 2009, which limits the “beneficial owner” to individuals, projects or other organizations normally engaged in substantive operations, and sets forth certain detailed factors in determining the “beneficial owner” status. In current practice, a Hong Kong enterprise must obtain a tax resident certificate from the relevant Hong Kong tax authority to apply for the 5% lower PRC withholding tax rate. As the Hong Kong tax authority will issue such a tax resident certificate on a case-by-case basis, we cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain the tax resident certificate from the relevant Hong Kong tax authority. As of the date of this prospectus, we have not commenced the application process for a Hong Kong tax resident certificate from the relevant Hong Kong tax authority, and there is no assurance that we will be granted such a Hong Kong tax resident certificate.

 

Even after we obtain the Hong Kong tax resident certificate, we are required by applicable tax laws and regulations to file required forms and materials with relevant PRC tax authorities to prove that we can enjoy 5% lower PRC withholding tax rate. Hitek HK intends to obtain the required materials and file with the relevant tax authorities when it plans to declare and pay dividends, but there is no assurance that the PRC tax authorities will approve the 5% withholding tax rate on dividends received from Hitek HK.

  

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Our contractual arrangements with HiTek and its shareholders may not be effective in providing control over HiTek.

 

All of our current revenue and net income is derived from HiTek. Foreign ownership of internet technology businesses, such as distribution of online information, is subject to restrictions under current PRC laws and regulations. For example, foreign investors are not allowed to own more than 50% of the equity interests in a value-added telecommunication service provider (except e-commerce) and any such foreign investor must have experience in providing value-added telecommunications services overseas and maintain a good track record in accordance with the Guidance Catalog of Industries for Foreign Investment promulgated in 2007, as amended in 2011 and in 2015, respectively, and other applicable laws and regulations. To comply with PRC laws and regulations, we do not intend to have an equity ownership interest in HiTek but rely on contractual arrangements with HiTek to control and operate its business. However, as discussed above, these contractual arrangements may not be effective from PRC laws in providing us with the necessary control over HiTek and its operations. Any deficiency in these contractual arrangements may result in our loss of control over the management and operations of HiTek, which will result in a significant loss in the value of an investment in our company. Because of the practical restrictions on direct foreign equity ownership imposed by the Fujian provincial government authorities, we must rely on contractual rights through our VIE structure to effect control over and management of HiTek, which exposes us to the risk of potential breach of contract by the shareholders of HiTek. In addition, as our Chairman of the Board Mr. Yin, along with his wife Ms. Huang, owns approximately 74.6% of HiTek’s outstanding equity, it may be difficult for us to change our corporate structure if such shareholders refuse to cooperate with us.

 

Because we conduct our business through HiTek, a VIE, if we fail to comply with applicable law, we could be subject to severe penalties and our business could be adversely affected.

 

We operate our business through HiTek, a VIE, the equity of which is owned by Huang Xiaoyang, Yin Shenping, Shi Bo, Wang Zhishuang, Huang Liuqing, Li Jingru, Tang Mian, Tian Ce, Lin Xianfeng, Inner Mongolia Guangxin Investment Co., Ltd. and Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd. through a series of contractual agreements, as a result of which, under United States generally accepted accounting principles, the assets and liabilities of HiTek are treated as our assets and liabilities and the results of operations of HiTek are treated in all respects as if they were the results of our operations. There are uncertainties regarding the interpretation and application of PRC laws, rules and regulations, including but not limited to the laws, rules and regulations governing the validity and enforcement of the contractual arrangements between WFOE and HiTek.

 

On or around September 2011, various media sources reported that the China Securities Regulatory Commission (the “CSRC”) had prepared a report proposing pre-approval by a competent central government authority of offshore listings by China-based companies with variable interest entity structures, such as ours, that operate in industry sectors subject to foreign investment restrictions. However, it is unclear whether the CSRC officially issued or submitted such a report to a higher level government authority or what any such report provides, or whether any new PRC laws or regulations relating to variable interest entity structures will be adopted or what they would provide.

 

If WFOE, HiTek or their ownership structure or the contractual arrangements are determined to be in violation of any existing or future PRC laws, rules or regulations, or WFOE or HiTek fails to obtain or maintain any of the required governmental permits or approvals, the relevant PRC regulatory authorities would have broad discretion in dealing with such violations, including:

 

  revoking the business and operating licenses of WFOE or HiTek;
     
  discontinuing or restricting the operations of WFOE or HiTek;
     
  imposing conditions or requirements with which we, WFOE, or HiTek may not be able to comply;
     
  requiring us, WFOE, or HiTek to restructure the relevant ownership structure or operations which may significantly impair the rights of the holders of our Class A Ordinary Shares in the equity of HiTek;
     
  restricting or prohibiting our use of the proceeds from our initial public offering to finance our business and operations in China; and
     
  imposing fines.

 

We cannot assure you that the PRC courts or regulatory authorities may not determine that our corporate structure and contractual arrangements violate PRC laws, rules or regulations. If the PRC courts or regulatory authorities determine that our contractual arrangements are in violation of applicable PRC laws, rules or regulations, our contractual arrangements will become invalid or unenforceable, and HiTek will not be treated as a VIE entity and we will not be entitled to treat HiTek’s assets, liabilities and results of operations as our assets, liabilities and results of operations, which could effectively eliminate the assets, revenue and net income of HiTek from our balance sheet, which would most likely require us to cease conducting our business and would result in the delisting of our Class A Ordinary Shares from Nasdaq Capital Market and a significant impairment in the market value of our Class A Ordinary Shares.

  

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If we become directly subject to the scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity involving U.S.-listed Chinese companies, we may have to expend significant resources to investigate and resolve the matter which could harm our business operations, share price and reputation.

 

U.S. public companies that have substantially all of their operations in China have been the subject of intense scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity by investors, financial commentators and regulatory agencies, such as the SEC. Much of the scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity has centered on financial and accounting irregularities and mistakes, a lack of effective internal controls over financial accounting, inadequate corporate governance policies or a lack of adherence thereto and, in many cases, allegations of fraud. As a result of the scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity, the publicly traded stock of many U.S. listed Chinese companies sharply decreased in value and, in some cases, has become virtually worthless. Many of these companies are now subject to shareholder lawsuits and SEC enforcement actions and are conducting internal and external investigations into the allegations. It is not clear what effect this sector-wide scrutiny, criticism and negative publicity will have on us, our business and our share price. If we become the subject of any unfavorable allegations, whether such allegations are proven to be true or untrue, we will have to expend significant resources to investigate such allegations and/or defend our company. This situation will be costly and time consuming and distract our management from developing our growth. If such allegations are not proven to be groundless, we and our business operations will be severely affected and you could sustain a significant decline in the value of our share.

 

The disclosures in our reports and other filings with the SEC and our other public pronouncements are not subject to the scrutiny of any regulatory bodies in the PRC.

 

We are regulated by the SEC and our reports and other filings with the SEC are subject to SEC review in accordance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act. Our SEC reports and other disclosure and public pronouncements are not subject to the review or scrutiny of any PRC regulatory authority. For example, the disclosure in our SEC reports and other filings are not subject to the review by China Securities Regulatory Commission, a PRC regulator that is responsible for oversight of the capital markets in China. Accordingly, you should review our SEC reports, filings and our other public pronouncements with the understanding that no local regulator has done any review of us, our SEC reports, other filings or any of our other public pronouncements.

 

The failure to comply with PRC regulations relating to mergers and acquisitions of domestic projects by offshore special purpose vehicles may subject us to severe fines or penalties and create other regulatory uncertainties regarding our corporate structure.

 

On August 8, 2006, MOFCOM, joined by the CSRC, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council, the SAT, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (the “SAIC”), and SAFE, jointly promulgated regulations entitled the Provisions Regarding Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Projects by Foreign Investors (the “M&A Rules”), which took effect as of September 8, 2006, and as amended on June 22, 2009. This regulation, among other things, have certain provisions that require offshore special purpose vehicles formed for the purpose of acquiring PRC domestic companies and controlled directly or indirectly by PRC individuals and companies, to obtain the approval of MOFCOM prior to engaging in such acquisitions and to obtain the approval of the CSRC prior to publicly listing their securities on an overseas stock market. On September 21, 2006, the CSRC published on its official website a notice specifying the documents and materials that are required to be submitted for obtaining CSRC approval.

 

The application of the M&A Rules with respect to our corporate structure remains unclear, with no current consensus existing among leading PRC law firms regarding the scope and applicability of the M&A Rules. Thus, it is possible that the appropriate PRC government agencies, including MOFCOM, would deem that the M&A Rules required us or our entities in China to obtain approval from MOFCOM or other PRC regulatory agencies in connection with WFOE’s control of HiTek through contractual arrangements. If the CSRC, MOFCOM, or another PRC regulatory agency determines that government approval was required for the VIE arrangements between WFOE and HiTek, or if prior CSRC approval for overseas financings is required and not obtained, we may face severe regulatory actions or other sanctions from MOFCOM, the CSRC or other PRC regulatory agencies. In such event, these regulatory agencies may impose fines or other penalties on our operations in the PRC, limit our operating privileges in the PRC, delay or restrict the repatriation of the proceeds from overseas financings into the PRC, restrict or prohibit payment or remittance of dividends to us or take other actions that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, reputation and prospects, as well as the trading price of our Class A Ordinary Shares. The CSRC or other PRC regulatory agencies may also take actions requiring us, or making it advisable for us, to delay or cancel overseas financings, to restructure our current corporate structure, or to seek regulatory approvals that may be difficult or costly to obtain.

  

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The M&A Rules, along with certain foreign exchange regulations discussed below, will be interpreted or implemented by the relevant government authorities in connection with our future offshore financings or acquisitions, and we cannot predict how they will affect our acquisition strategy. For example, HiTek’s ability to remit its profits to us or to engage in foreign-currency-denominated borrowings, may be conditioned upon compliance with the SAFE registration requirements by Mr. Yin and Ms. Huang, both shareholders of the Registrant and the VIE Entity, over whom we may have no control.

 

Our agreements with HiTek are governed by the laws of the PRC and we may have difficulty in enforcing any rights we may have under these contractual arrangements.

 

As all of our contractual arrangements with HiTek are governed by the PRC laws and provide for the resolution of disputes through arbitration in the PRC, they would be interpreted in accordance with PRC law and any disputes would be resolved in accordance with PRC legal procedures. The legal environment in the PRC is not as developed as in the United States. As a result, uncertainties in the PRC legal system could further limit our ability to enforce these contractual arrangements. Furthermore, these contracts may not be enforceable in China if PRC government authorities or courts take a view that such contracts contravene PRC laws and regulations or are otherwise not enforceable for public policy reasons. In the event we are unable to enforce these contractual arrangements, we may not be able to exert effective control over HiTek, and our ability to conduct our business may be materially and adversely affected.

 

Risks Relating to this Offering and Our Ordinary Share

 

There has been no public market for our Class A Ordinary Shares prior to this offering, and you may not be able to resell our Class A Ordinary Shares at or above the price you pay for them, or at all.

 

Prior to this offering, there has not been a public market for our Class A Ordinary Shares. We plan to apply for the listing of our Class A Ordinary Shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market. However, an active public market for our Class A Ordinary Shares may not develop or be sustained after the offering, in which case the market price and liquidity of our Class A Ordinary Shares will be materially and adversely affected. Our Class A Ordinary Shares will not be listed on any exchange or quoted for trading on any over-the-counter system.

 

We are offering our Class A Ordinary Shares on a best efforts basis and may be unable to sell any shares. Because this is a best efforts possibility that we may not be able to sell the minimum offering amount of Class A Ordinary Shares. In the event that we do not raise the minimum offering amount of Class A Ordinary Shares within 90 days from the date of this prospectus, all funds raised will be promptly returned to the investors, without interest or deduction. If we successfully raise the minimum offering amount of Class A Ordinary Shares, we will be able to execute our business plan as described.

 

Our proposed dual-class voting structure will limit your ability to influence corporate matters and could discourage others from pursuing any change of control transactions that holders of our Class A Ordinary Shares may view as beneficial.

 

Our ordinary shares will be divided into Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares immediately prior to the completion of this offering. Holders of Class A Ordinary Shares will be entitled to one vote per share, while holders of Class B Ordinary Shares will be entitled to ten votes per share, subject to the limitations set forth in “Description of Share Capital—Ordinary Shares.” We will issue Class A Ordinary Shares in this offering. All of the outstanding ordinary shares held by the Class B Holders as of the date of this prospectus will be automatically converted into Class B Ordinary Shares immediately prior to the completion of this offering. All other ordinary shares that are outstanding as of the date of this prospectus will be automatically converted into Class A Ordinary Shares immediately prior to the completion of this offering. We intend to maintain the dual-class voting structure after the completion of this offering. Each Class B ordinary share is convertible into one Class A ordinary share at any time by the holder thereof. Class A Ordinary Shares are not convertible into Class B Ordinary Shares under any circumstances. Upon any transfer of Class B Ordinary Shares by the original holder thereof to any person or entity which is not an affiliate of such holder, such Class B Ordinary Shares shall be automatically and immediately converted into an equal number of Class A Ordinary Shares.

  

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Due to the disparate voting powers attached to these two classes of ordinary shares, the Class B Holders will own approximately [●]% of our total issued and outstanding ordinary shares and [●]% of the voting power of our outstanding shares immediately after this offering assuming we raise the maximum offering proceeds. Therefore, holders of the Class B Ordinary Shares will have decisive influence over matters requiring shareholders’ approval, including election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or sale of our company. This concentrated voting interest will limit your ability to influence corporate matters and could discourage others from pursuing any potential merger, takeover or other change of control transactions that holders of Class A Ordinary Shares may view as beneficial.

 

The dual-class structure of our ordinary shares may adversely affect the trading market for our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

S&P Dow Jones and FTSE Russell announced changes to their eligibility criteria for inclusion of shares of public companies on certain indices, including the S&P 500, namely, to exclude companies with multiple classes of ordinary shares from being added to such indices. In addition, several shareholder advisory firms have announced their opposition to the use of multiple class structures. As a result, the dual-class structure of our ordinary shares may prevent the inclusion of our Class A Ordinary Shares in such indices and may cause shareholder advisory firms to publish negative commentary about our corporate governance practices or otherwise seek to cause us to change our capital structure. Any such exclusion from indices could result in a less active trading market for our Class A Ordinary Shares. Any actions or publications by shareholder advisory firms critical of our corporate governance practices or capital structure could also adversely affect the value of our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

The initial public offering price for our Class A Ordinary Shares may not be indicative of prices that will prevail in the trading market and such market prices may be volatile.

 

The initial public offering price for our Class A Ordinary Shares will be determined by negotiations between us and the underwriter, and does not bear any relationship to our earnings, book value or any other indicia of value. We cannot assure you that the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares will not decline significantly below the initial public offering price. The financial markets in the United States and other countries have experienced significant price and volume fluctuations in the last few years. Volatility in the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares may be caused by factors outside of our control and may be unrelated or disproportionate to changes in our results of operations.

 

You will experience immediate and substantial dilution in the net tangible book value of Class A Ordinary Shares purchased.

 

The initial public offering price of our Class A Ordinary Shares is substantially higher than the (pro forma) net tangible book value per share of our Class A Ordinary Shares. Consequently, when you purchase our Class A Ordinary Shares in the offering and upon completion of the offering, you will incur immediate dilution of US$[●] per share, assuming an initial public offering price of US$[●]. See “Dilution.” In addition, you may experience further dilution to the extent that additional Class A Ordinary Shares are issued upon exercise of outstanding options we may grant from time to time.

 

Substantial future sales of our Class A Ordinary Shares or the anticipation of future sales of our Class A Ordinary Shares in the public market could cause the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares to decline.

 

Sales of substantial amounts of our Class A Ordinary Shares in the public market after this offering, or the perception that these sales could occur, could cause the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares to decline. An aggregate of [●] shares of Class A Ordinary Shares will be outstanding before the consummation of this offering and [●] shares of Class A Ordinary Shares will be outstanding immediately after the consummation of this offering if the minimum offering amount is raised, and [●] shares of Class A Ordinary Shares will be outstanding immediately after the consummation of this offering if the maximum offering amount is raised. The Class A Ordinary Shares outstanding after this offering will be available for sale upon the expiration of the lock-up period ending 180 days after the closing of the offering, subject to certain restrictions. See “Shares Eligible for Future Sale.” Any or all of these shares may be released prior to the expiration of the lock-up period at the discretion of the underwriter. Sales of these shares into the market could cause the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares to decline.

 

We do not intend to pay dividends for the foreseeable future.

 

We currently intend to retain any future earnings to finance the operation and expansion of our business, and we do not expect to declare or pay any dividends in the foreseeable future. As a result, you may only receive a return on your investment in our Class A Ordinary Shares if the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares increases.

  

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If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports about our business, or if the publish a negative report regarding our Class A Ordinary Shares, the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares and trading volume could decline.

 

The trading market for our Class A Ordinary Shares may depend in part on the research and reports that industry or securities analysts publish about us or our business. We do not have any control over these analysts. If one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade us, the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of our company or fail to regularly publish reports on us, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which could cause the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares and the trading volume to decline.

 

The market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares may be volatile or may decline regardless of our operating performance, and you may not be able to resell your shares at or above the initial public offering price.

 

The initial public offering price for our Class A Ordinary Shares will be determined through negotiations between the Underwriter and us and may vary from the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares following our initial public offering. If you purchase our Class A Ordinary Shares in our initial public offering, you may not be able to resell those shares at or above the initial public offering price. We cannot assure you that the initial public offering price of our Class A Ordinary Shares, or the market price following our initial public offering, will equal or exceed prices in privately negotiated transactions of our shares that have occurred from time to time prior to our initial public offering. The market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares may fluctuate significantly in response to numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, including:

 

  actual or anticipated fluctuations in our revenue and other operating results;
     
  the financial projections we may provide to the public, any changes in these projections or our failure to meet these projections;
     
  actions of securities analysts who initiate or maintain coverage of us, changes in financial estimates by any securities analysts who follow our company, or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors;
     
  announcements by us or our competitors of significant products or features, technical innovations, acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, or capital commitments;
     
  price and volume fluctuations in the overall stock market, including as a result of trends in the economy as a whole;
     
  lawsuits threatened or filed against us; and
     
  other events or factors, including those resulting from war or incidents of terrorism, or responses to these events.

 

In addition, the stock markets have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected and continue to affect the market prices of equity securities of many companies. Share prices of many companies have fluctuated in a manner unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. In the past, shareholders have filed securities class action litigation following periods of market volatility. If we were to become involved in securities litigation, it could subject us to substantial costs, divert resources and the attention of management from our business, and adversely affect our business.

 

Our management has broad discretion to determine how to use the funds raised in the offering and may use them in ways that may not enhance our results of operations or the price of our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

We anticipate that we will use the net proceeds from this offering for working capital and other corporate purposes. Our management will have significant discretion as to the use of the net proceeds to us from this offering and could spend the proceeds in ways that do not improve our results of operations or enhance the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

Our lack of effective internal controls over financial reporting may affect our ability to accurately report our financial results or prevent fraud which may affect the market for and price of our Ordinary Share.

 

To implement Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, the SEC adopted rules requiring public companies to include a report of management on the company’s internal control over financial reporting. Prior to filing the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, we were not subject to these rules. As a result, we do not have in place effective disclosure controls and procedures or internal controls over financial reporting. We will be subject to the requirement that we maintain internal controls and that management perform periodic evaluation of the effectiveness of the internal controls. Effective internal control over financial reporting is important to prevent fraud. As a result, our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects, as well as the market for and trading price of our Class A Ordinary Shares, may be materially and adversely affected if we do not have effective internal controls. We do not presently have the financial resources or personnel to develop or implement systems that would provide us with the necessary information on a timely basis so as to be able to implement financial controls. As a result, we may not discover any problems in a timely manner and current and potential shareholders could lose confidence in our financial reporting, which would harm our business and the trading price of our Class A Ordinary Shares. The absence of internal controls over financial reporting may inhibit investors from purchasing our shares and may make it more difficult for us to raise funds in a debt or equity financing.

  

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Because we are an “emerging growth company,” we may not be subject to requirements that other public companies are subject to, which could affect investor confidence in us and our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

As we are an “emerging growth company,” we may not be subject to requirements that other public companies are subject to, which could other requirements applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, most significantly, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act for so long as we are an emerging growth company and a smaller reporting company. As a result, if we elect not to comply with such auditor attestation requirements, our investors may not have access to certain information they may deem important. See “Implications of Our Being an “Emerging Growth Company.”

 

We will incur increased costs as a result of being a public company, particularly after we cease to qualify as an “emerging growth company.”

 

Upon completion of this offering, we will become a public company and expect to incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as well as rules subsequently implemented by the SEC and the Nasdaq Capital Market, impose various requirements on the corporate governance practices of public companies. As an “emerging growth company” pursuant to the JOBS Act, we may take advantage of specified reduced reporting and other requirements that are otherwise applicable generally to public companies. We expect these rules and regulations to increase our legal and financial compliance costs and to make some corporate activities more time-consuming and costly. After we are no longer an “emerging growth company,” we expect to incur significant additional expenses and devote substantial management effort toward ensuring compliance increased disclosure requirements.

 

If we cease to qualify as a foreign private issuer, we would be required to comply fully with the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act applicable to U.S. domestic issuers, and we would incur significant additional legal, accounting and other expenses that we would not incur as a foreign private issuer.

 

We expect to qualify as a foreign private issuer upon the completion of this offering. As a foreign private issuer, we will be exempt from the rules under the Exchange Act prescribing the furnishing and content of proxy statements, and our officers, directors and principal shareholders will be exempt from the reporting and short-swing profit recovery provisions contained in Section 16 of the Exchange Act. In addition, we will not be required under the Exchange Act to file periodic reports and financial statements with the SEC as frequently or as promptly as United States domestic issuers, and we will not be required to disclose in our periodic reports all of the information that United States domestic issuers are required to disclose. While we currently expect to qualify as a foreign private issuer immediately following the completion of this offering, we may cease to qualify as a foreign private issuer in the future.

 

Anti-takeover provisions in our memorandum and articles of association may discourage, delay or prevent a change in control.

 

Some provisions of our memorandum and articles of association, which will become effective upon the completion of this offering, may discourage, delay or prevent a change in control of our company or management that shareholders may consider favorable, including, among other things, the following:

 

  provisions that authorize our board of directors to issue shares with preferred, deferred or other special rights or restrictions without any further vote or action by our shareholders; and
     
  provisions that restrict the ability of our shareholders to call meetings and to propose special matters for consideration at shareholder meetings

  

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Our board of directors may decline to register transfers of Class A Ordinary Shares in certain circumstances.

 

Our board of directors may, in its sole discretion, decline to register any transfer of any Ordinary Share which is not fully paid up or on which we have a lien. Our directors may also decline to register any transfer of any share unless (i) the instrument of transfer is lodged with us, accompanied by the certificate for the shares to which it relates and such other evidence as our board of directors may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer; (ii) the instrument of transfer is in respect of only one class of shares; (iii) the instrument of transfer is properly stamped, if required; (iv) in the case of a transfer to joint holders, the number of joint holders to whom the share is to be transferred does not exceed four; (v) the shares conceded are free of any lien in favor of us; or (vi) a fee of such maximum sum as Nasdaq Capital Market may determine to be payable, or such lesser sum as our board of directors may from time to time require, is paid to us in respect thereof.

 

If our directors refuse to register a transfer they shall, within one month after the date on which the instrument of transfer was lodged, send to each of the transferor and the transferee notice of such refusal. The registration of transfers may, on 14 days’ notice being given by advertisement in such one or more newspapers or by electronic means, be suspended and the register closed at such times and for such periods as our board of directors may from time to time determine, provided, however, that the registration of transfers shall not be suspended nor the register closed for more than 30 days in any year.

 

Because we are a Cayman Islands corporation and all of our business is conducted in the PRC, you may be unable to bring an action against us or our officers and directors or to enforce any judgment you may obtain.

 

We are incorporated in the Cayman Islands and conduct our operations primarily in China. All of our assets are located outside of the United States and the proceeds of this offering will primarily be held in banks outside of the United States. In addition, all of our directors and officers reside outside of the United States. As a result, it may be difficult or impossible for you to bring an action against us or against these individuals in the Cayman Islands or in China in the event that you believe we have violated your rights, either under United States federal or state securities laws or otherwise, or if you have a claim against us. Even if you are successful in bringing an action of this kind, the laws of the Cayman Islands and of China may not permit you to enforce a judgment against our assets or the assets of our directors and officers. See “Enforceability of Civil Liabilities.”

 

Because we are incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands, you may face difficulties in protecting your interests, and your ability to protect your rights through the U.S. Federal courts may be limited.

 

We are an exempted company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands and certain of our officers and directors are residents of jurisdictions outside the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for investors to effect service of process within the United States upon our directors or executive officers, or enforce judgments obtained in the United States courts against our directors or officers.

 

Our corporate affairs will be governed by our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, the Companies Law or the common law of the Cayman Islands. The rights of shareholders to take action against the directors, actions by minority shareholders and the fiduciary responsibilities of our directors to us under Cayman Islands law are to a large extent governed by the common law of the Cayman Islands. The common law of the Cayman Islands is derived in part from comparatively limited judicial precedent in the Cayman Islands as well as from English common law, the decisions of whose courts are of persuasive authority, but are not binding on a court in the Cayman Islands. The rights of our shareholders and the fiduciary responsibilities of our directors under Cayman Islands law are different from statutes or judicial precedent in some jurisdictions in the United States. In particular, the Cayman Islands has a different body of securities laws as compared to the United States. In addition, Cayman Islands companies may not have standing to initiate a shareholders derivative action in a Federal court of the United States.

 

We have been advised by our Cayman Islands legal counsel that the courts of the Cayman Islands are unlikely (i) to recognize or enforce against us judgments of courts of the United States predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the United States or any state; and (ii) in original actions brought in the Cayman Islands, to impose liabilities against us predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the United States or any state, so far as the liabilities imposed by those provisions are penal in nature. In those circumstances, although there is no statutory enforcement in the Cayman Islands of judgments obtained in the United States, the courts of the Cayman Islands will recognize and enforce a foreign money judgment of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction without retrial on the merits based on the principle that a judgment of a competent foreign court imposes upon the judgment debtor an obligation to pay the sum for which judgment has been given provided certain conditions are met. For a foreign judgment to be enforced in the Cayman Islands, such judgment must be final and conclusive and for a liquidated sum, and must not be in respect of taxes or a fine or penalty, inconsistent with a Cayman Islands judgment in respect of the same matter, impeachable on the grounds of fraud or obtained in a manner, and or be of a kind the enforcement of which is, contrary to natural justice or the public policy of the Cayman Islands (awards of punitive or multiple damages may well be held to be contrary to public policy). A Cayman Islands Court may stay enforcement proceedings if concurrent proceedings are being brought elsewhere. 

As a result of all of the above, public shareholders may have more difficulty in protecting their interests in the face of actions taken by management, members of the board of directors or controlling shareholders than they would as public shareholders of a United States company.

  

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You may be unable to present proposals before general meetings or extraordinary general meetings not called by shareholders.

 

Cayman Islands law provides shareholders with only limited rights to requisition a general meeting, and does not provide shareholders with any right to put any proposal before a general meeting. However, these rights may be provided in a company’s articles of association. Our articles of association allow sour shareholders holding shares representing in aggregate not less than ten per cent in par value of the issued Shares which as at that date carry the right to vote at general meetings, to requisition an extraordinary general meeting of our shareholders, in which case our directors are obliged to call such meeting and to put the resolutions so requisitioned to a vote at such meeting. Although our articles of association does not provide our shareholders with any right to put any proposals before annual general meetings or extraordinary general meetings not called by such shareholders, any shareholder may submit a proposal to our Board of Directors for consideration of inclusion in a proxy statement. Advance notice of at least fifteen calendar days is required for the convening of our annual general shareholders’ meeting and any other general meeting of our shareholders. A quorum required for a meeting of shareholders consists of at least one shareholder present or by proxy, representing not less than one-third in nominal value of the total issued voting shares in our company.

 

If we are classified as a passive foreign investment company, United States taxpayers who own our Class A Ordinary Shares may have adverse United States federal income tax consequences.

 

A non-U.S. corporation such as ourselves will be classified as a passive foreign investment company, which is known as a PFIC, for any taxable year if, for such year, either

 

  At least 75% of our gross income for the year is passive income; or
     
  The average percentage of our assets (determined at the end of each quarter) during the taxable year which produce passive income or which are held for the production of passive income is at least 50%.

 

Passive income generally includes dividends, interest, rents and royalties (other than rents or royalties derived from the active conduct of a trade or business) and gains from the disposition of passive assets.

 

If we are determined to be a PFIC for any taxable year (or portion thereof) that is included in the holding period of a U.S. taxpayer who holds our Class A Ordinary Shares, the U.S. taxpayer may be subject to increased U.S. federal income tax liability and may be subject to additional reporting requirements.

 

Depending on the amount of cash we raise in this offering, together with any other assets held for the production of passive income, it is possible that, for our 2017 taxable year or for any subsequent year, more than 50% of our assets may be assets which produce passive income. We will make this determination following the end of any particular tax year, which in our case is the calendar year. Although the law in this regard is unclear, we are treating HiTek as being owned by us for United States federal income tax purposes, not only because we control their management decisions, but also because we are entitled to the economic benefits associated with HiTek, and as a result, we are treating HiTek as our wholly-owned subsidiary for U.S. federal income tax purposes. For purposes of the PFIC analysis, in general, a non-U.S. corporation is deemed to own its pro rata share of the gross income and assets of any entity in which it is considered to own at least 25% of the equity by value. Therefore, the income and assets of HiTek should be included in the determination of whether or not we are a PFIC in any taxable year.

 

For a more detailed discussion of the application of the PFIC rules to us and the consequences to U.S. taxpayers if we were determined to be a PFIC, see “Taxation — United States Federal Income Taxation — Passive Foreign Investment Company.”

 

Some of our pre-IPO shareholders will be able to sell their shares upon completion of this offering.

 

Holders of 5% (or less) of our outstanding shares prior to completion of this offering will not be subject to lock-up agreements and may be able to sell their shares under Rule 144. Because these shareholders have paid a lower price per share than participants in this offering, they may be more willing to accept a lower sales price than the IPO price. This fact could impact the trading price of the shares following completion of the offering, to the detriment of participants in this offering.

  

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DISCLOSURE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This prospectus contains “forward-looking statements,” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, all of which are subject to risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements give our current expectations or forecasts of future events. You can identify these statements by the fact that they do not relate strictly to historical or current facts. You can find many (but not all) of these statements by the use of words such as “approximates,” “believes,” “hopes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “estimates,” “projects,” “intends,” “plans,” “will,” “would,” “should,” “could,” “may” or other similar expressions in this prospectus. These statements are likely to address our growth strategy, financial results and product and development programs. You must carefully consider any such statements and should understand that many factors could cause actual results to differ from our forward-looking statements. These factors may include inaccurate assumptions and a broad variety of other risks and uncertainties, including some that are known and some that are not. No forward looking statement can be guaranteed and actual future results may vary materially. Factors that could cause actual results to differ from those discussed in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:

  

  future financial and operating results, including revenues, income, expenditures, cash balances and other financial items;
     
  our ability to execute our growth, expansion and acquisition strategies, including our ability to meet our goals;
     
  current and future economic and political conditions;
     
  the response of participants using ACTCS tax device or its supporting services to any difficulties encountered by companies filing VAT through these systems;
     
  changes in the regulations of PRC government bodies and agencies relating to VAT collection procedure and ACTCS business;
     
  our ability to provide participants in projects using our services with a secure and acceptable payment method;
     
  our ability to continue to operate through our VIE structure;
     
  our capital requirements and our ability to raise any additional financing which we may require;
     
  our ability to protect our intellectual property rights and secure the right to use other intellectual property that we deem to be essential or desirable to the conduct of our business;
     
  our ability to hire and retain qualified management personnel and key employees in order to enable us to develop our business;
     
  our ability to retain the services of Ms. Xiaoyang Huang, our Chief Executive Officer;
     
  overall industry and market performance; and
     
  other assumptions described in this prospectus underlying or relating to any forward-looking statements.

 

We describe material risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could affect our business, including our financial condition and results of operations, under “Risk Factors.” We base our forward-looking statements on our management’s beliefs and assumptions based on information available to our management at the time the statements are made. We caution you that actual outcomes and results may, and are likely to, differ materially from what is expressed, implied or forecast by our forward-looking statements. Accordingly, you should be careful about relying on any forward-looking statements. Except as required under the federal securities laws, we do not have any intention or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements after the distribution of this prospectus, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in assumptions, or otherwise.

 

Industry Data and Forecasts

 

This prospectus contains data related to the VAT collection and filing procedures, tax service industry, software industry, hardware retail industry and IT service industry in China. These data include projections that are based on a number of assumptions which have been derived from industry and government sources which we believe to be reasonable. The tax service industry, software industry, hardware retail industry and IT service industry may not grow at the rate projected by industry data, or at all. The failure of these industries to grow as anticipated is likely to have a material adverse effect on our business and the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares. In addition, the rapidly changing nature of these industries subjects any projections or estimates relating to the growth prospects or future condition of our industry to significant uncertainties. Furthermore, if any one or more of the assumptions underlying the industry data turns out to be incorrect, actual results may, and are likely to, differ from the projections based on these assumptions. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.

  

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ENFORCEABILITY OF CIVIL LIABILITIES

 

We are a Cayman Islands company incorporated on November 3, 2017 as an exempted company with limited liability. Exempted companies are Cayman Islands companies wishing to conduct business outside the Cayman Islands and, as such, are exempted from complying with certain provisions of the Companies Law. As an exempted company, we have applied for and received a tax exemption undertaking from the Cayman Islands government that, in accordance with section 6 of the Tax Concessions Law (2018 Revision) of the Cayman Islands, for a period of 20 years from the date of the undertaking, no law which is enacted in the Cayman Islands imposing any tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations shall apply to us or our operations and, in addition, that no tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations or which is in the nature of estate duty or inheritance tax shall be payable (i) on or in respect of our shares, debentures or other obligations or (ii) by way of the withholding in whole or in part of a payment of dividend or other distribution of income or capital by us to our shareholders or a payment of principal or interest or other sums due under a debenture or other obligation of us.

 

All of our assets are located in the PRC. In addition, a majority of our directors and officers are nationals or residents of the PRC and all or a substantial portion of their assets are located outside the United States. As a result, it may be difficult for investors to effect service of process within the United States upon us or these persons, or to enforce against us or them judgments obtained in United States courts, including judgments predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States.

 

We have appointed Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li LLC as our agent to receive service of process with respect to any action brought against us in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York under the federal securities laws of the United States or of any state in the United States or any action brought against us in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in the County of New York under the securities laws of the State of New York.

 

We have been advised by our Cayman Islands legal counsel, Maples and Calder, that the courts of the Cayman Islands are unlikely (i) to recognize or enforce against us judgments of courts of the United States predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any State; and (ii) in original actions brought in the Cayman Islands, to impose liabilities against us predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any State, so far as the liabilities imposed by those provisions are penal in nature. In those circumstances, although there is no statutory enforcement in the Cayman Islands of judgments obtained in the United States, the courts of the Cayman Islands will recognize and enforce a foreign money judgment of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction without retrial on the merits based on the principle that a judgment of a competent foreign court imposes upon the judgment debtor an obligation to pay the sum for which judgment has been given provided certain conditions are met. For a foreign judgment to be enforced in the Cayman Islands, such judgment must be final and conclusive and for a liquidated sum, and must not be in respect of taxes or a fine or penalty, inconsistent with a Cayman Islands judgment in respect of the same matter, impeachable on the grounds of fraud or obtained in a manner, and or be of a kind the enforcement of which is, contrary to natural justice or the public policy of the Cayman Islands (awards of punitive or multiple damages may well be held to be contrary to public policy). A Cayman Islands Court may stay enforcement proceedings if concurrent proceedings are being brought elsewhere.

 

PRC

 

Jingtian & Gongcheng, our counsel as to PRC law, has advised us that there is uncertainty as to whether the courts of China would:

 

recognize or enforce judgments of United States courts obtained against us or our directors or officers predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States; or

 

entertain original actions brought in each respective jurisdiction against us or our directors or officers predicated upon the securities laws of the United States or any state in the United States.

 

Jingtian & Gongcheng has further advised us that the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments are provided for under the PRC Civil Procedures Law. PRC courts may recognize and enforce foreign judgments in accordance with the requirements of the PRC Civil Procedures Law based either on treaties between China and the jurisdiction where the judgment is made or on principles of reciprocity between jurisdictions. China does not have any treaties or other form of reciprocity with the United States that provide for the reciprocal recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments. In addition, according to the PRC Civil Procedures Law, courts in the PRC will not enforce a foreign judgment against us or our directors and officers if they decide that the judgment violates the basic principles of PRC law or national sovereignty, security or public interest. As a result, it is uncertain whether and on what basis a PRC court would enforce a judgment rendered by a court in the United States. Under the PRC Civil Procedures Law, foreign shareholders may originate actions based on PRC law against us in the PRC, if they can establish sufficient nexus to the PRC for a PRC court to have jurisdiction, and meet other procedural requirements, including, among others, the plaintiff must have a direct interest in the case, and there must be a concrete claim, a factual basis and a cause for the suit. However, it would be difficult for foreign shareholders to establish sufficient nexus to the PRC by virtue only of holding our ADSs or ordinary shares.

   

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USE OF PROCEEDS

 

We estimate that we will receive net proceeds from this offering, after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and the estimated offering expenses payable by us and based upon an assumed initial public offering price of US$     per Ordinary Share, of approximately $     if we sell the minimum number of Class A Ordinary Shares and approximately $     if we sell the maximum number of Class A Ordinary Shares. In addition, the Underwriter will have an over-subscription allowance to sell up to an additional 15% of the offering amount, or an additional [●] Class A Ordinary Shares for $[●] of original gross proceeds in this offering. This over-subscription allowance may be exercised in whole or in part through [●].

 

We plan to use the net proceeds we receive from this offering for the following purposes:

 

    Use of net proceeds
(Minimum offering amount)
  Use of net proceeds
(Maximum offering amount)
Research and development     approximately US$       approximately US$  
Recruit additional employees     approximately US$       approximately US$  
Enhance our information technology systems     approximately US$       approximately US$  
General working capital     approximately US$       approximately US$  

 

The foregoing represents our current intentions based upon our present plans and business conditions to use and allocate the net proceeds of this offering. Our management, however, will have significant flexibility and discretion to apply the net proceeds of this offering. If an unforeseen event occurs or business conditions change, we may use the proceeds of this offering differently than as described in this prospectus. To the extent that the net proceeds we receive from this offering are not immediately used for the above purposes, we intend to invest our net proceeds in short-term, interest-bearing bank deposits or debt instruments.

   

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DIVIDEND POLICY

 

We intend to keep any future earnings to finance the expansion of our business, and we do not anticipate that any cash dividends will be paid in the foreseeable future.

 

Under Cayman Islands law, a Cayman Islands company may pay a dividend on its shares out of either profit or share premium amount, provided that in no circumstances may a dividend be paid if this would result in the company being unable to pay its debts due in the ordinary course of business.

 

If we determine to pay dividends on any of our Class A Ordinary Shares in the future, as a holding company, we will be dependent on receipt of funds from our Hong Kong subsidiary, HiTek HK.

 

Current PRC regulations permit our indirect PRC subsidiaries to pay dividends to the Company only out of their accumulated profits, if any, determined in accordance with Chinese accounting standards and regulations. In addition, each of our subsidiaries in China is required to set aside at least 10% of its after-tax profits each year, if any, to fund a statutory reserve until such reserve reaches 50% of its registered capital. Each of such entity in China is also required to further set aside a portion of its after-tax profits to fund the employee welfare fund, although the amount to be set aside, if any, is determined at the discretion of its board of directors. Although the statutory reserves can be used, among other ways, to increase the registered capital and eliminate future losses in excess of retained earnings of the respective companies, the reserve funds are not distributable as cash dividends except in the event of liquidation.

 

The PRC government also imposes controls on the conversion of RMB into foreign currencies and the remittance of currencies out of the PRC. Therefore, we may experience difficulties in completing the administrative procedures necessary to obtain and remit foreign currency for the payment of dividends from our profits, if any. Furthermore, if our subsidiaries and affiliates in the PRC incur debt on their own in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict their ability to pay dividends or make other payments. If we or our subsidiaries are unable to receive all of the revenues from our operations through the current contractual arrangements, we may be unable to pay dividends on our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

Cash dividends, if any, on our Class A Ordinary Shares will be paid in U.S. dollars. If we are considered a PRC tax resident enterprise for tax purposes, any dividends we pay to our overseas shareholders may be regarded as China-sourced income and as a result may be subject to PRC withholding tax at a rate of up to 10.0%. See “Taxation — PRC Taxation.”

 

In order for us to pay dividends to our shareholders, we will rely on payments made from HiTek to WFOE, pursuant to contractual arrangements between them, and the distribution of such payments to HiTek HK as dividends from our PRC subsidiaries. Certain payments from our HiTek to WFOE are subject to PRC taxes, including business taxes and VAT. In addition, if HiTek or our PRC subsidiary incurs debt on its own behalf in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict its ability to pay dividends or make other distributions to us.

 

Pursuant to the Arrangement between Mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and Tax Evasion on Income, or the Double Tax Avoidance Arrangement, the 10% withholding tax rate may be lowered to 5% if a Hong Kong resident enterprise owns no less than 25% of a PRC project. However, the 5% withholding tax rate does not automatically apply and certain requirements must be satisfied, including without limitation that (a) the Hong Kong project must be the beneficial owner of the relevant dividends; and (b) the Hong Kong project must directly hold no less than 25% share ownership in the PRC project during the 12 consecutive months preceding its receipt of the dividends. In current practice, a Hong Kong project must obtain a tax resident certificate from the Hong Kong tax authority to apply for the 5% lower PRC withholding tax rate. As the Hong Kong tax authority will issue such a tax resident certificate on a case-by-case basis, we cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain the tax resident certificate from the relevant Hong Kong tax authority and enjoy the preferential withholding tax rate of 5% under the Double Taxation Arrangement with respect to dividends to be paid by our PRC subsidiary to its immediate holding company, HiTek HK. As of the date of this prospectus, we have not applied for the tax resident certificate from the relevant Hong Kong tax authority. HiTek HK intends to apply for the tax resident certificate when WFOE plans to declare and pay dividends to HiTek HK. See “Risk Factors- There are significant uncertainties under the EIT Law relating to the withholding tax liabilities of our PRC subsidiary, and dividends payable by our PRC subsidiary to our offshore subsidiaries may not qualify to enjoy certain treaty benefits.”

  

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CAPITALIZATION

 

The following table sets forth our capitalization as of June 30, 2018:

 

  on an actual basis; and
     
  on an as adjusted basis to reflect the issuance and sale of the Class A Ordinary Shares by us in this offering at both the minimum offering amount and the maximum offering amount at the initial public offering price of US$     per Ordinary Share, after deducting the estimated commissions to the underwriter and the estimated offering expenses payable by us.

 

You should read this capitalization table in conjunction with “Use of Proceeds,” “Selected Consolidated Financial and Operating Data,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and the consolidated financial statements and the related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus.

 

    June 30, 2018
    Actual   As adjusted
(Minimum
offering amount)
  As adjusted
(Maximum
offering amount)
        US$       US$       US$
Equity                        
Share capital (US$0.0001 par value, 500,000,000 shares authorized, [ ] shares issued and outstanding; [ ] shares issued and outstanding, as adjusted to reflect the minimum issuance, and [ ] shares issued and outstanding, as adjusted to reflect the maximum issuance                        
Additional paid-in capital (1)                        
Statutory reserves                        
Contributed capital                        
Retained earnings/(Losses)                        
Accumulated other comprehensive loss                        
Total equity                        
Total capitalization                        

 

(1) Pro forma additional paid in capital reflects the net proceeds we expect to receive, after deducting underwriting fee, Underwriter expense allowance and other expenses. We expect to receive net proceeds of (a) approximately $     if minimum offering is raised (    ) in the event the over-subscription option is not exercised ($     offering, less underwriting fee of $     and offering expenses of approximately $    ) or (b) approximately $     if maximum offering is raised ($     offering, less underwriting fee of $     and offering expenses of approximately $    ).

 

A US$1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of US$     per Ordinary Share would increase (decrease) each of additional paid-in capital, total shareholders’ equity and total capitalization by US$     million, assuming the number of Class A Ordinary Shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated expenses payable by us.

   

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DILUTION  

 

If you invest in our Class A Ordinary Shares, your interest will be diluted for each Ordinary Share you purchase to the extent of the difference between the initial public offering price per Ordinary Share and our net tangible book value per Ordinary Share after this offering. Dilution results from the fact that the initial public offering price per Ordinary Share is substantially in excess of the net tangible book value per Ordinary Share attributable to the existing shareholders for our presently outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

Dilution to New Investors if the Minimum Offering Amount is Sold

 

Our net tangible book value as of June 30, 2018 was approximately US$    , or US$     per Ordinary Share. Net tangible book value represents the amount of our total consolidated tangible assets, less the amount of our total consolidated liabilities. Dilution is determined by subtracting the as adjusted net tangible book value per Ordinary Share from the initial public offering price per Ordinary Share and after deducting the estimated commissions to the underwriter and the estimated offering expenses payable by us.

 

Without taking into account any other changes in net tangible book value after June 30, 2018, other than to give effect to our sale of Class A Ordinary Shares offered in this offering based on the initial public offering price of US$     per Ordinary Share after deduction of the estimated commissions to the underwriter and the estimated offering expenses payable by us, our as adjusted net tangible book value as of June 30, 2018 would have been US$    , or US$     per outstanding Ordinary Share and US$     per Ordinary Share. This represents an immediate increase in net tangible book value of US$     per Ordinary Share to the existing shareholders, and an immediate dilution in net tangible book value of US$     per Ordinary Share to investors purchasing Class A Ordinary Shares in this offering. The as adjusted information discussed above is illustrative only. The following table illustrates such dilution:

 

    Minimum   Maximum
Initial public offering price per Ordinary Share     US$       US$  
Net tangible book value per Ordinary Share as of June 30, 2018     US$       US$  
As adjusted net tangible book value per Ordinary Share attributable to payments by new investors     US$       US$  
Ordinary Share     US$       US$  
Amount of dilution in net tangible book value per Ordinary Share to new investors in the offering     US$       US$  

 

The following table summarizes, on an as adjusted basis as of June 30, 2018, the differences between existing shareholders and the new investors with respect to the minimum number of Class A Ordinary Shares purchased from us, the total consideration paid and the average price per Ordinary Share before deducting the estimated commissions to the underwriter and the estimated offering expenses payable by us.

 

    Class A Ordinary Shares
purchased
    Total consideration   Average
price per
ordinary
    Number     Percent     Amount   Percent     Share
                (US$ in thousands)          
Existing shareholders           %   US $     %   US $
New investors             %     US $     %     US $
Total             %     US $     %      

 

The as adjusted information as discussed above is illustrative only.

  

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF
FINANCIAL CONDITIONS AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS  

 

The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with our financial statements and related notes thereto.

 

CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

 

This report contains certain statements that may be deemed “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of United States of America securities laws.  All statements, other than statements of historical fact, that address activities, events or developments that we intend, expect, project, believe or anticipate and similar expressions or future conditional verbs such as will, should, would, could or may occur in the future are forward-looking statements. Such statements are based upon certain assumptions and assessments made by our management in light of their experience and their perception of historical trends, current conditions, expected future developments and other factors they believe to be appropriate.

 

These statements include, without limitation, statements about our anticipated expenditures, including those related to general and administrative expenses; the potential size of the market for our services, future development and/or expansion of our services in our markets, our ability to generate revenues, our ability to obtain regulatory clearance and expectations as to our future financial performance. Our actual results will likely differ, perhaps materially, from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including: our need and ability to raise additional cash. The forward-looking statements included in this report are subject to a number of additional material risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to the risks described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read together with our financial statements and the related notes to those statements included in this filing. In addition to historical financial information, this discussion may contain forward-looking statements reflecting our current plans, estimates, beliefs and expectations that involve risks and uncertainties. As a result of many important factors, our actual results and the timing of events may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements.

 

Overview

 

We are an information technology (“IT”) consulting and solutions service provider focusing on delivering services to business in various industry sectors in China. As of the date of prospectus, we have two lines of businesses— 1) services to small and medium businesses (“SMEs”), which consists of Anti-Counterfeiting Tax Control System (“ACTCS”) tax devices, ACTCS services, and IT services, and 2) services to large businesses, which consists of hardware sales and software sales. We expect to actively develop our system integration services and online service platform in the near future. Our vision is to become a one-stop consulting destination for holistic IT and other business consulting services in China.

 

Our VIE entity, HiTek, is authorized to carry out the sales of Golden Tax Disk (“GTD) and a market leader in the Xiamen metropolitan area with respect to ACTCS tax device and services since 1996. We provide our customers with the necessary ACTCS for their value added tax (“VAT”) reporting, collection and processing. VAT reporting is mandatory for all business enterprises in China. The ACTCS is one of the two major VAT control systems that a business entity may choose to comply with the VAT reporting requirements. Developed by the government-owned entity China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (“CASTC”), ACTCS was intended to effectively eliminate counterfeit invoices, providing accurate and complete tax information for the regional and national audit system. We are authorized by the State Taxation Bureau, Xiamen Branch, as one of the first ACTCS service providers in the Xiamen metropolitan area. GTD is an ACTCS hardware necessary for normal operation of ACTCS software. The purchase of GTD is allowed only in conjunction with the use of the ACTCS software and its supporting services. Since 1996, we have been the number one ACTCS services provider for Xiamen business enterprises according to the data compiled by Xiamen Province Taxation Bureau.

 

While we are confident that our competitive strengths will continue improving our business, we are keenly aware of the challenges that our business faces, especially the challenges in our services to SMEs which are stemmed from the ACTCS services. The services provided to the SMEs are restricted in the Xiamen metropolitan areas since authorization by the State Taxation Bureau, Xiamen Branch to provide ACTCS services is required which is the cornerstone of our services to the SMEs. Prices of GTD and ACTCS annual service fees are regulated and subject to the State Tax Administration’s pricing mandates. We are not able to adjust such pricing and as such our profit margin is limited. In recent years, the Chinese tax regulators have been rolling out the electronic invoicing system. Increasing use of electronic invoices will reduce our SME client base by around 5% in the future since electronic invoicing system will enable some of our existing clients to apply for, issue, transfer and check the invoices through the unified online electronic invoice management system of Chinese tax authorities. Our client base growth may be limited in spite of our diligent marketing efforts since it is beyond our control how many new SMEs will open each year in the Xiaman metropolitan area.

 

Complementing our physical service center, we started developing online service center in 2018 to enable tens of thousands of businesses in the Xiamen metropolitan area to securely process VAT reporting and payment from their desktop virtually anytime and anywhere. Coupled with our first-mover advantage, this broad applicability has been driving our client base, resulting around 49,791 active users, which accounted for approximately 40% of Xiamen’s tax collection market in 2017 according to the Xiamen Province Taxation Bureau’s statistics. In the next few years, we plan to complete our full-service platform and aim to transfer 85% of our clients onto the platform. We plan to offer business management service, such as agent accounting services and online IT outsourcing services, to the SME clients using our ACTCS services. We also plan to expand our service to large businesses to other geographic regions.

 

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Since the beginning of 2017, HiTek has also generated revenue from its IT service business provided to SMEs in Xiamen area. HiTek provides outsourced IT support and maintenance services for its clients. HiTek’s IT service business is directly responsible for, without limitation, periodically check, daily repairing and maintenance service, technical support for client’s IT facilities and IT disaster recovery.

 

As part of the services provided to large businesses, HiTek currently sells Communication Interface System (“CIS”), its self-developed software which provides embedded system interface solutions for large businesses. CIS is a universal embedded interface system used in petrochemical and coal businesses to collect industrial, electricity, facility pressure and temperature statistics and convert to readable format for analytical purposes.

 

As part of our services provided to large businesses, Huasheng currently sells hardware such as laptops, printers, desktop computers and associated accessories, together with certain internet servers, cameras and monitors. After we launched CIS sales, we also introduced our hardware products to our CIS users. Our major business strategy in the market is to connect and source through exclusive relationships with manufacturers so that Huasheng can offer competitively priced hardware. We plan to market large scale hardware integration systems such as router for commercial use, industrial switch, server, large internet firewall etc. in the future. We have established the online support system in the beginning of 2018. The online system further enhances our customer experience, which is complemented by highly trained professionals and attractive physical store environment.

 

For the six months ended June 30, 2018, HiTek’s two business lines operated in four revenue streams: (1) services to large businesses-- hardware sales (31.2%), software sales (20.2%), and (2) services to SMEs-- IT services (13.4%), ACTCS devices and services (35.2%). For the year ended December 31, 2017, HiTek’s two business lines operated in four revenue streams: (1) services to large businesses-- hardware sales (36.4%), software sales (19%), and (2) services to SMEs-- IT services (11.4%), ACTCS devices and services (33.3%). For the year ended December 31, 2016, HiTek’s two business lines operated in three revenue streams – (1) services to large businesses-- hardware sales (60.6%), software sales (3.8%), and (2) services to SMEs-- ACTCS devices and services (35.6%). In the early of 2016, we had one-time hardware order from a customer which constituted 25.6% and 35% of our total sales and cost of revenues, respectively. We did not have similar orders in 2017. We are currently negotiating long-term hardware sales contracts with a few government-owned entities and expect our hardware sales to either remain the same as year 2017 or increase in the next 2 or 3 years. In recent years, the Chinese tax regulators have been rolling out the electronic invoicing system. We expect the sales of ACTCS devices and services to decrease due to the decrease of our SME client base in the future since electronic invoicing system will enable some of our existing clients to apply for, issue, transfer and check the invoices through the unified online electronic invoice management system. Due to our marketing effort from the initiative of better utilization of our available resources and capacity, we have developed strategic partnership with several local companies and started to generate IT services and CIS software in 2017. We expect the sales of IT services and CIS software to increase during our nationwide expansion.

 

Critical Accounting Policies

 

Our consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, which require us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates, including those estimates that may have a significant effect on our financial condition and results of operations. Our significant accounting policies are disclosed in Note 2 to our consolidated financial statements. The following discussion of critical accounting policies addresses those policies that are both important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results of operations and require significant judgment and estimates. We base our estimates and judgment on historical experience and on various other factors that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.

 

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Revenue Recognition

 

We recognize revenues when all of the following conditions are met: persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred or services have been rendered, the price is fixed or determinable, and collectability is reasonably assured. Generally, these criteria are met at the time product is shipped or services are complete. Costs associated with shipping and handling our products are included in cost of sales. 

 

Hardware

HiTek and Huasheng are primarily in the business of sales of the computer and network hardware to end users. The products include computers, printers, internet cables, certain internet servers, cameras and monitors, and etc. Revenue from the sales of products is recognized when title and risk of loss passes to the customer, delivery is considered complete, and collectability is reasonably assured. 

 

Software

HiTek also does business in software sales and focuses on the perpetual licenses sales for one of the self-developed software s Communication Interface System (“CIS”). CIS is based on LINUX, which is a general embedded interface system used in petrochemical and coal enterprises. The system is used to communicate the RCTX-X module, collect the work diagram, the electricity diagram, the pressure temperature and other measures, and can extract the data and import it to the software of the windows platform to display analysis. The installation and operation training are essential to the functionality of the software which are provided to the clients prior to the acceptance of the software. We provide one-year warranty which mainly telephone supports. The upgrade or enhancement for CIS is not required. Therefore, revenue from the sales of software is recognized when title and risk of loss passes to the customer, delivery is considered complete, customer acceptance has been satisfied, and collectability is reasonably assured.

 

IT Services

HiTek provides IT support and maintenance services for its client. HiTek’s IT service business is directly responsible for periodical check, on-call repairing and maintenance service, technical support for client’s IT facilities, and IT disaster recovery etc. Revenue from fixed price contract is recognized over service period.

 

Tax Devices and Services

All businesses in China are required to purchase the Anti-counterfeiting Tax Control System (“ACTCS” or Golden Tax Disk or GTD) tax devices to issue the VAT Invoice and for quarterly VAT filing. HiTek is authorized to carry out the implementation of ACTCS specialty hardware retailing. The price on the sales of the GTD and related supporting services are determined by the National Development and Reform Commission. Revenue from the sales of GTD devices is recognized when title and risk of loss passes to the customer, delivery is considered complete, and collectability is reasonably assured.

 

We provide the after-sales supporting services and charges the service fee on an annual basis. The service period is usually one year. Revenue related to its service is recognized as the services are performed and amounts are earned, using the straight-line method over the term of the related services agreement.

 

The Company’s revenues are derived from its gross billings and is reported on a gross basis since the Company is primarily obligated in the transaction, is subject to inventory and credit risk and has several but not all of the indicators that revenue should be recorded on the gross basis in accordance with ASC 605-45, “Overall Considerations of Reporting Revenue Gross as a Principal versus Net as an Agent.”

 

Prepayments received from customers prior to the services being performed are recorded as deferred revenue.

 

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Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

 

Accounts receivable are presented net of an allowance for doubtful accounts. We maintain allowances for doubtful accounts for estimated losses. We review the accounts receivable on a periodic basis and makes general and specific allowances when there is doubt as to the collectability of individual balances. In evaluating the collectability of individual receivable balances, we consider many factors, including the age of the balance, a customer’s historical payment history, its current credit-worthiness and current economic trends. Accounts are written off after exhaustive efforts at collection.

 

Inventories

 

Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (weighted average basis) or market value (net realizable value). The methods of determining inventory costs are used consistently from year to year. Allowance for inventory obsolescence is provided when the market value of certain inventory items are lower than the cost.

 

Results of Operations

 

The following consolidated results of operations include the results of operations of the Company, its wholly owned subsidiary and consolidated VIEs.

 

Our historical reporting results are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for any future period.

 

Six Months Ended June 30, 2018 Compared to Six Months Ended June 30, 2017 (Unaudited)

 

Revenue

 

    For the Six months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2018     2017     Increase / (Decrease)     Percentage Change  
    (unaudited)     (unaudited)              
Hardware   $ 709,972     $ 841,067     $ (131,095 )     (15.6 %)
Hardware-related party     369,906       26,228       343,678       1310.3 %
CIS Software     570,872       652,450       (81,578 )     (12.5 %)
CIS Software-related party     129,990       -       129,990       100 %
IT Services     463,422       384,257       79,165       20.6 %
Tax devices and service     1,219,577       1,277,022       (57,455 )     (4.5 %)
Total revenues   $ 3,463,739     $ 3,181,024     $ 282,715       8.9 %

 

We have the following four revenue streams - hardware retail and wholesale, software sales, outsourced IT services, and Anti-Counterfeiting Tax Control System (“ACTCS”) sales and services. Our total revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2018 were $3,463,739, an increase of 282,715 or 8.9% from $3,181,024 for the six months ended June 30, 2017. The overall increase in revenue was resulted from the increase of hardware sales and CIS software sales to a related party.

 

Cost of Margin

 

    For the Six months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2018     2017     Increase / (Decrease)     Percentage Change  
    (unaudited)     (unaudited)              
Total revenues   $ 3,463,739     $ 3,181,024     $ 282,715       8.9 %
                                 
Cost of revenues     1,398,288       1,363,918       34,370       2.5 %
                              13.7  
Gross profit     2,065,451       1,817,106       248,345       %  
Margin %     59.6 %     57.1 %     2.5 %        

 

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Cost of revenue is comprised of (i) the direct cost of our hardware products purchased from third parties; (ii) logistics-related costs, which primarily include product packaging and freight-in charges; (iii) third-party royalties paid related to the GTD and (iv) compensation for the employees who handle the products and perform IT services and other costs that are necessary for us to provide the services to our customers.

 

Our cost of revenues increased from $1,363,918 for the six months ended June 30, 2017 to $1,398,288 for the same period in 2018, an increase of $34,370, or 2.5%. This increase was mainly caused by the increase of hardware sales and costs.

 

Gross Profit . Our gross profit increased to $2,065,451 for the six months ended June 30, 2018 from $1,817,106 for the same period in 2017. Our gross profit as a percentage of revenue increased to 59.6% for the six months ended June 30, 2018 from 57.1% for the same period in 2017. This was mainly due to the increase of sales in software and IT services which costs are mainly labor costs and the gross margins are higher than the hardware sales.

 

Operating Expenses

  

    For the Six months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2018     2017     Increase / (Decrease)     Percentage Change  
    (unaudited)     (unaudited)              
Selling expenses   $ 1,272     $ 28,870     $ (27,598 )     (95.6 %)
% of revenue     0.0 %     0.0 %     (0.00 %)     -  
General and administrative expenses     504,193       473,438       30,755       6.5 %
% of revenue     14.6 %     14.9 %     (0.3 %)     -  
Operating expenses   $ 505,465     $ 502,308     $ 3,157       0.6 %

 

Selling and Distribution Expenses .  Selling and distribution expenses consist primarily of shipping and handling costs for products sold and advertisement and marketing expenses for promotion of our products. Selling expenses was decreased primarily due to a decrease in transportation expenses of $22,347 as the customers were responsible to pay the freight fee when purchasing the hardware and tax devices starting from the second quarter of 2018,

 

General and Administrative Expenses . General and administrative expenses consist primarily of costs in salary and welfare expenses for our general administrative and management staff, facilities costs, depreciation expenses, professional fees, accounting fees, and other miscellaneous expenses incurred in connection with general operations. General and administrative expenses increased in 6.5% or $30,755, from $473,438 for the  six months ended June 30, 2017  to $504,193 in the same period of 2018. The increase was mainly because the increase of the office and rental expense of $24,517 and $7,100 respectively due to the new office rent by the Huoerguosi for the six months ended June 30,2018. General and administrative expenses were 14.6% of total revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 14.9% of total revenues in the same period of 2017.

 

Net Income

 

    For the Six months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2018     2017     Increase / (Decrease)     Percentage Change  
    (unaudited)     (unaudited)              
Operating income   $ 1,559,986     $ 1,314,798     $ 245,188       18.6 %
Total other income (expenses)     (105,933 )     (6,744 )     99,189       1,470.8 %
Income before income taxes     1,454,053       1,308,054       145,999       11.2 %
Income tax expense     (180,714 )     (344,939 )     (164,225 )     (47.6 %)
Net income   $ 1,273,339     $ 963,115     $ 310,224       32.2 %

 

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Operating income .  Operating income was $1,559,986 for the six months ended June 30, 2018 , compared to $1,314,798 for the same period of 2017. The increase in operating income in 2018 was primary due to the increase in gross profit.

 

Other income (expenses) . Other income (expenses) includes government subsidy income, net investment income (loss), and interest income and expenses. Other expenses was $105,933 for the six months ended June 30, 2018 , compared to $6,744 for the same period of 2017. The increase was primarily due to the increase of net investment loss in the amount of $117,979, which offset by the increase of government subsidies in the amount of $19,764.

 

Income tax expense . Income tax expense was $180,714 for the six months ended June 30, 2018 , compared to $344,939 for the same period of 2017. The decrease in income tax expense was mainly because one of the Company’s subsidiaries, the Huoerguosi was currently exempt from paying income tax. As the Huoerguosi is located in the Xinjiang Huoerguosi special development zones, it is exempted from corporate income tax from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2020. The Huoerguosi net income before tax for the six months ended June 30, 2018 was $571,675 and the income tax expense impact should be approximate $143,000, as the Huoerguosi has exemption from income tax, the income tax expense was saving approximate $143,000., and the effective tax rate of the Company was decreased from 25% to 12%.

 

Net income . As a result of the factors described above, net income was $1,273,339 for the six months ended June 30, 2018 , an increase of $310,224 from net income $963,115 for the same period of 2017.

 

Year Ended December 31, 2017 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2016

 

Revenue

 

    For the Years Ended  
    December 31,  
                Increase /     Percentage  
    2017     2016     (Decrease)     Change  
Hardware   $ 2,509,125     $ 4,180,951     $ (1,671,826 )     (66.6 %)
CIS Software     1,305,975       258,773       1,047,202       80.2 %
IT Services     781,529       -       781,529       100.0 %
Tax devices and service     2,290,746       2,455,488       (164,742 )     (7.2 %)
Total revenues   $ 6,887,375     $ 6,895,212     $ (7,837 )     (0.1 %)

 

We have the following four revenue streams - hardware retail and wholesale, software sales, outsourced IT services, and Anti-Counterfeiting Tax Control System (“ACTCS”) sales and services. Our total revenues for the year ended December 31, 2017 were $6,887,375, a decrease of 7,837 or 0.1% from $6,895,212 for the year ended December 31, 2016. The overall decrease in revenue was resulted from the decrease of hardware sales which was offset by increase of revenues from sale of CIS software and outsourced IT services. The decrease in hardware sales in 2017 mainly caused by the decrease of sales volumes while the price remains constant. In 2016, we received a one-time hardware order from a customer which constituted 25.6% ($1,766,992) and 35% ($1,763,494) of our total sales and cost of revenues, respectively. We generated a low gross margin from this particular transaction. In 2017, we did not have such order and both of our hardware sales and cost of revenues were significantly decreased. In 2017, in order to better utilize our available human resources and capacity, we started a new revenue stream – IT services without incurring additional costs. The sales in CIS software we developed in 2014 increased resulting from the marketing effort and the products were better known by more customers.

 

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Cost and Margin

 

    For the Years Ended  
    December 31,  
                Increase /     Percentage  
    2017     2016     (Decrease)     Change  
Total revenues   $ 6,887,375     $ 6,895,212     $ (7,837 )     (0.1 %)
                                 
Cost of revenues     3,207,554       5,037,261       (1,829,707 )     (57.0 %)
                                 
Gross profit     3,679,821       1,857,951       1,821,870       49.5 %
Margin %     53.4 %     26.9 %     26.5 %        

 

Cost of revenue is comprised of (i) the direct cost of our hardware products purchased from third parties; (ii) logistics-related costs, which primarily include product packaging and freight-in charges; (iii) third-party royalties paid related to the GTD and (iv) compensation for the employees who handle the products and perform IT services and other costs that are necessary for us to provide the services to our customers.

 

Our cost of revenues decreased from $5,037,261 for the year ended December 31, 2016 to $3,207,554 for the same period in 2017, a decreased of 1,829,707, or 57%. This decrease was mainly caused by the decrease of hardware sales and better utilization of our available human resources and capacity. For example, our technicians for ACTCS services are also providing IT services.

 

Gross Profit . Our gross profit increased to $3,679,821 for the year ended December 31, 2017 from $1,857,951 for the same period in 2016. Our gross profit as a percentage of revenue increased to 53.4% for the year ended December 31, 2017 from 26.9% for the same period in 2016. This was mainly due to the increase of sales in software and IT services which costs are mainly labor costs and the gross margins are higher than the hardware sales.

 

Operating Expenses

 

    For the Years Ended  
    December 31,  
                Increase /     Percentage  
    2017     2016     (Decrease)     Change  
Selling expenses   $ 32,262     $ 98,422     $ (66,160 )     (205.1 %)
% of revenue     0.5 %     1.4 %     (1.0 %)     -  
General and administrative expenses     1,049,836       1,346,329       (296,493 )     (28.2 %)
% of revenue     15.2 %     19.5 %     (4.3 %)     -  
Operating expenses   $ 1,082,098     $ 1,444,751     $ (362,653 )     (33.5 %)

 

Selling and Distribution Expenses .  Selling and distribution expenses consist primarily of shipping and handling costs for products sold and advertisement and marketing expenses for promotion of our products. Selling expenses decreased by 205.1% or $66,160 from $98,422 in the  year ended December 31, 2016  to $32,262 in the same period of 2017. This decrease was primarily due to a decrease in transportation expenses associated with the hardware sales as a result of strategic shift from hardware sales to software sales and outsourced IT services. Selling expenses were 0.5% of total revenues for the year ended December 31, 2017 and 1.4% of total revenues in the same period of 2016.

 

General and Administrative Expenses . General and administrative expenses consist primarily of costs in salary and welfare expenses for our general administrative and management staff, facilities costs, depreciation expenses, professional fees, accounting fees, and other miscellaneous expenses incurred in connection with general operations. General and administrative expenses decreased by 28.2% or $296,493, from $1,346,329 in the  year ended December 31, 2016  to $1,049,836 in the same period of 2017. The decrease was mainly because a portion of the technicians in the IT department were assigned to perform IT services and their payroll expenses were allocated from the general and administrative expenses to the cost of revenue. General and administrative expenses were 15.2% of total revenues 2017  and 19.5% of total revenues in 2016.

 

Net Income

 

    For the Years Ended  
    December 31,  
                Increase /     Percentage  
    2017     2016     (Decrease)     Change  
Operating income   $ 2,597,723     $ 413,200     $ 2,184,523       84 %
Total other income     36,124       72,119       (35,995 )     (100 %)
Income before income taxes     2,633,847       485,319       2,148,528       82 %
Income tax expense     (498,608 )     (105,298 )     393,310       79 %
Net income   $ 2,135,239     $ 380,021     $ 1,755,218       82 %

 

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Operating income .  Operating income was $2,597,723 for the year ended December 31, 2017, compared to $413,200 for the same period of 2016. The increase in operating income in 2017 was primary due to the increase in gross profit.

 

Other income . Other income includes government subsidy income, net investment income (loss), and interest income and expenses. Other income was $36,124 in 2017, compared to $72,119 for the same period of 2016. The decrease was primarily due to the decrease of government subsidy income in the amount of $61,223, which offset by the increase of net investment income in the amount of $25,419.

 

Income tax expense . Income tax expense was $498,608 for the year ended December 31, 2017, compared to $105,298 for the same period of 2016. The increase in income tax expense was mainly due to the increase in income for the year ended December 31, 2017.

 

Net income . As a result of the factors described above, net income was $2,135,239 for the year ended December 31, 2017, an increase of $1,755,218 from net income $380,021 for the same period of 2016.

 

Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

As of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 , we had cash in the amount of approximately $369,744 and $867,570, respectively.

 

Working Capital . Total working capital as of June 30, 2018 amounted to $6,096,611, compared to $4,927,541 as of December 31, 2017 . The increase was mainly due to (1) an increase in account receivable and account receivable from related party of $862,792 and $420,711, respectively, which is derived from the increase of the revenue for the period ended June 30, 2018, and (2) an increase in inventory of $501,327. Current liabilities amounted to $1,661,278 as of June 30, 2018 as compared to $1,955,935 as of December 31, 2017 . This decrease of liabilities was attributable mainly to a decrease in amount due to related parties of $167,997 which partially offset by an increase in taxes payable of $63,817.

 

Total working capital as of December 31, 2017 amounted to $4,927,541, compared to $2,085,626 as of December 31, 2016. The increase was mainly due to an increase in advances to suppliers of $1,455,736 and an increase in cash and cash equivalents of $652,506. The increase in advances to suppliers for the year ended December 31, 2017 was mainly due to the increase in advances made to third party software developers for internal use development costs in the amount of $722,366 and hardware purchased but have not received at year end in the amount of $733,370. In order to better serve our SME clients with the quickest and easiest way to place the orders and push our products/services to the other geographic areas, we engaged two internet technology companies to develop the Finance and Taxation Service Platform Mobile Application and Corporate Full-Service Platform Mobile Application. In order to fulfill couple of our large hardware sales orders at the beginning of 2018, at the end of year 2017, we made advances to our hardware suppliers for purchase of inventory. We received the products at the beginning of year 2018.

 

Current liabilities amounted to $1,955,935 at December 31, 2017 as compared to $2,245,176 at December 31, 2016. This decrease of liabilities was attributable mainly to a decrease in amount due to related parties of $486,791 which partially offset by an increase in taxes payable of $183,736.

 

Capital Resources and Capital Needs . To date, we have financed our operations primarily through cash flows from operations. With the uncertainty of the current market, our management believes it is necessary to enhance collection of outstanding accounts receivable and other receivables, and to be cautious on operational decisions and project selection. Our management believes that our current operations can satisfy our daily working capital needs. We may also raise capital through public offerings or private placements of our securities to finance our development of our business and to consummate any merger and acquisition, if necessary.

 

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements . We have not entered into any financial guarantees or other commitments to guarantee the payment obligations of any third parties. In addition, we have not entered into any derivative contracts that are indexed to our own shares and classified as shareholders’ equity, or that are not reflected in our financial statements. Furthermore, we do not have any retained or contingent interest in assets transferred to an unconsolidated entity that serves as credit, liquidity or market risk support to such entity. Moreover, we do not have any variable interest in an unconsolidated entity that provides financing, liquidity, market risk or credit support to us or engages in leasing, hedging or research and development services with us.

 

Cash Flows Analysis

 

Six Months ended June 30, 2018 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2017

 

  (a) Operating Activities

 

Net cash used in operating activities were $502,218 and $115,679 for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017, respectively . The increase of $386,539 in net cash used in operating activities for the six months ended June 30, 2018 , was mainly due to (1) increase in cash outflow for short-term investment and inventory and (2) increase in account receivable from related parties.

 

  (b) Investing Activities

 

Net cash used in investing activities was $nil for the six months ended June 30, 2018 as compared to net cash used in investing activities of $4,153 for the six months ended June 30, 2017 . During the six months ended June 30, 2017 , we had $4,153 cash used in purchasing of fixed assets. We did not have such purchase during the six months ended June 30, 2018 .

 

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  (c) Financing Activities

 

Net cash provided by financing activities was $nil for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017.

 

Year Ended December 31, 2017 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2016

 

  (a) Operating Activities

 

Net cash provided by operating activities were $179,934 and $1,402,531 for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2018, respectively. The increase of $1582,465 in net cash provided by operating activities for the year ended December 31, 2017 was mainly due to the net effect of (1) the increase of sales in software and IT services which costs are mainly labor costs and the gross margins are higher than the hardware sales. and the cost of sales also decreased $1.8 million in 2017, (2) the increase in proceeds from investment in trade securities of $0.9 million and the decrease in purchase of trade securities of $0.5 million, and (3) the decrease in cash inflows mainly due to advance to suppliers increase of approximately $1.4 million due to the demands from sales at the year end of 2017 and amount due to related parties increase of approximately $1.2 million.

 

  (b) Investing Activities

 

Net cash used in investing activities was $4,223 for the year ended December 31, 2017 as compared to net cash provided by investing activities of $1,006 for the year ended December 31, 2016. During the year ended December 31, 2016, we had $5,870 cash proceeds on disposal of fixed assets. We did not have such proceeds during the year ended December 31, 2017.

 

  (c) Financing Activities

 

Net cash provided by financing activities was $449,066 for the year ended December 31, 2017 as compared to $1,446,227 for the year ended December 31, 2016. The decrease was mainly because more capital contribution to HiTek in 2016 than in 2017.

 

Holding Company Structure

 

Overview

 

We are a holding company with no material operations of our own. We conduct substantially all of our business in China through contractual arrangements with Xiamen Hengda HiTek Computer Network Co., Ltd., our variable interest entity, and its subsidiaries. See “Business — Contractual Agreements between WFOE and HiTek” for a summary of these contractual arrangements. As of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, our variable interest entities contributed in aggregate 100%, respectively, of our total net revenues. As of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, our variable interest entities accounted for an aggregate of 100% of our total assets and total liabilities. As of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, all of cash and cash equivalents (US$369,744 and US$867,570, respectively) were denominated in RMB. In the fiscal years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, our variable interest entities contributed in aggregate 100%, respectively, of our total net revenues. As of December 31, 2017 and 2016, our variable interest entities accounted for an aggregate of 100% of our total assets and total liabilities. As of December 31, 2017 and 2016, all of cash and cash equivalents (US $867,570 and US $215,064, respectively) were denominated in RMB.

 

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Conducting our operations through contractual arrangements with our variable interest entities entails a risk that we may lose the power to direct the activities that most significantly affect the economic performance of our variable interest entities, which may result in our being unable to consolidate their financial results with our results and may impair our access to their cash flow from operations and thereby reduce our liquidity. See “Risk Factors — Risks Relating to Doing Business in the PRC” for more information, including the risk factors titled “Our contractual arrangements with HiTek and its shareholders may not be effective in providing control over HiTek” and “Because we conduct our business through HiTek, a VIE, if we fail to comply with applicable law, we could be subject to severe penalties and our business could be adversely affected.”

 

In addition, any transfer of funds from us to any of our PRC subsidiaries or VIEs, either as a shareholder loan or as an increase in registered capital, is subject to certain statutory limit requirements and registration or approval of the relevant PRC governmental authorities, including the relevant administration of foreign exchange and/or the relevant examining and approval authority.  Our PRC subsidiaries and VIEs are not permitted under PRC law to directly lend money to one another.

 

Therefore, it is difficult to change our capital expenditure plans once the relevant funds have been remitted from our company to our PRC subsidiaries or VIEs.  These limitations on the free flow of funds between us and our PRC subsidiaries and VIEs could restrict our ability to act in response to changing market conditions and reallocate funds internally in a timely manner.

 

Dividend Distributions

 

We intend to keep any future earnings to finance the expansion of our business, and we do not anticipate that any cash dividends will be paid in the foreseeable future. Under Cayman Islands law, a Cayman Islands company may pay a dividend on its shares out of either profit or share premium amount, provided that in no circumstances may a dividend be paid if this would result in the company being unable to pay its debts due in the ordinary course of business. If we determine to pay dividends on any of our Ordinary Shares in the future, as a holding company, we will be dependent on receipt of funds from our Hong Kong subsidiary, HiTek HK.

 

Current PRC regulations permit our indirect PRC subsidiaries to pay dividends to the Company only out of their accumulated profits, if any, determined in accordance with Chinese accounting standards and regulations. In addition, each of our subsidiaries in China is required to set aside at least 10% of its after-tax profits each year, if any, to fund a statutory reserve until such reserve reaches 50% of its registered capital. Each of such entity in China is also required to further set aside a portion of its after-tax profits to fund the employee welfare fund, although the amount to be set aside, if any, is determined at the discretion of its board of directors. Although the statutory reserves can be used, among other ways, to increase the registered capital and eliminate future losses in excess of retained earnings of the respective companies, the reserve funds are not distributable as cash dividends except in the event of liquidation.

 

The PRC government also imposes controls on the conversion of RMB into foreign currencies and the remittance of currencies out of the PRC. Therefore, we may experience difficulties in completing the administrative procedures necessary to obtain and remit foreign currency for the payment of dividends from our profits, if any. Furthermore, if our subsidiaries in the PRC incur debt on their own in the future, the instruments governing the debt may restrict their ability to pay dividends or make other payments. If we or our subsidiaries are unable to receive all of the revenues from our operations through the current contractual arrangements, we may be unable to pay dividends on our Ordinary Shares.

 

Cash dividends, if any, on our Ordinary Shares will be paid in U.S. dollars. If we are considered a PRC tax resident enterprise for tax purposes, any dividends we pay to our overseas shareholders may be regarded as China-sourced income and as a result may be subject to PRC withholding tax at a rate of up to 10.0%. See “Regulations on Taxation.”

 

In order for us to pay dividends to our shareholders, we will rely on payments made from HiTek to WFOE, pursuant to contractual arrangements between them, and the distribution of such payments to HiTek HK as dividends from WFOE. Certain payments from our HiTek to WFOE are subject to PRC taxes, including business taxes and VAT.

 

Pursuant to the Arrangement between Mainland China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and Tax Evasion on Income, or the Double Tax Avoidance Arrangement, the 10% withholding tax rate may be lowered to 5% if a Hong Kong resident enterprise owns no less than 25% of a PRC project. However, the 5% withholding tax rate does not automatically apply and certain requirements must be satisfied, including without limitation that (a) the Hong Kong project must be the beneficial owner of the relevant dividends; and (b) the Hong Kong project must directly hold no less than 25% share ownership in the PRC project during the 12 consecutive months preceding its receipt of the dividends. In current practice, a Hong Kong project must obtain a tax resident certificate from the Hong Kong tax authority to apply for the 5% lower PRC withholding tax rate. As the Hong Kong tax authority will issue such a tax resident certificate on a case-by-case basis, we cannot assure you that we will be able to obtain the tax resident certificate from the relevant Hong Kong tax authority and enjoy the preferential withholding tax rate of 5% under the Double Taxation Arrangement with respect to dividends to be paid by our PRC subsidiary to its immediate holding company, HiTek HK. As of the date of this prospectus, we have not applied for the tax resident certificate from the relevant Hong Kong tax authority. HiTek HK intends to apply for the tax resident certificate when WFOE plans to declare and pay dividends to HiTek HK. See “Risk Factors- There are significant uncertainties under the EIT Law relating to the withholding tax liabilities of our PRC subsidiary, and dividends payable by our PRC subsidiary to our offshore subsidiaries may not qualify to enjoy certain treaty benefits.”

 

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Risks in relation to the VIE structure

 

Among other things, the Draft Foreign Investment Law expands the definition of foreign investment and introduces the principle of “actual control” in determining whether a company is considered a foreign-invested enterprise, or an FIE. Under the Draft Foreign Investment Law, variable interest entities would also be deemed as FIEs, if they are ultimately “controlled” by foreign investors, and be subject to restrictions on foreign investments. According to the Draft Foreign Investment Law, the State Council will determine a list of industry categories that are subject to special administrative measures, which is referred to as a “negative list”, consisting of a list of industry categories where foreign investments are strictly prohibited, or the “prohibited list” and a list of industry categories where foreign investments are subject to certain restrictions, or the “restricted list”. The Draft Foreign Investment Law provides that FIEs operating in industries on the “negative list” will require entry clearance and other approvals that are not required of PRC domestic entities. As a result of the entry clearance and approvals, certain FIE’s operating in industries on the “negative list” may not be able to continue to conduct their operations through contractual arrangements.

 

It is uncertain whether the business sectors that our variable interest entity operates will be subject to the foreign investment restrictions or prohibitions set forth in the “negative list” that is to be issued. If the enacted version of the Foreign Investment Law and the final “negative list” mandate further actions, such as MOFCOM market entry clearance, to be completed by companies with existing VIE structure like us, we will face uncertainties as to whether such clearance can be timely obtained, or at all. Furthermore, due to lack of guidance under this draft law, we are unable to ascertain the controlling status of our company and we cannot assure you of the controlling status of our company after the completion of this offering. Therefore, if we are ultimately considered a foreign invested enterprise deemed to operate in either a “restricted” or “prohibited” industry, we may no longer conduct the business pursuant to a VIE structure and we could be subject to severe penalties or be forced to relinquish our interests in relevant industries, which in turn would materially impact our results of operations.

 

Uncertainties in the PRC legal system could limit our ability to enforce the contractual arrangements with our VIEs. If WFOE, HiTek or their ownership structure or the contractual arrangements are determined to be in violation of any existing or future PRC laws, rules or regulations, or WFOE or HiTek fails to obtain or maintain any of the required governmental permits or approvals, the relevant PRC regulatory authorities would have broad discretion in dealing with such violations, including:

 

  revoking the business and operating licenses of WFOE or HiTek;
     
  discontinuing or restricting the operations of WFOE or HiTek;
     
  imposing conditions or requirements with which we, WFOE, or HiTek may not be able to comply;
     
  requiring us, WFOE, or HiTek to restructure the relevant ownership structure or operations which may significantly impair the rights of the holders of our Class A Ordinary Shares in the equity of HiTek;
     
  restricting or prohibiting our use of the proceeds from our initial public offering to finance our business and operations in China; and
     
  imposing fines.

 

We cannot assure that the PRC courts or regulatory authorities may not determine that our corporate structure and contractual arrangements violate PRC laws, rules or regulations. If the PRC courts or regulatory authorities determine that our contractual arrangements are in violation of applicable PRC laws, rules or regulations, our contractual arrangements will become invalid or unenforceable, and HiTek will not be treated as a VIE entity and we will not be entitled to treat HiTek’s assets, liabilities and results of operations as our assets, liabilities and results of operations, which could effectively eliminate the assets, revenue and net income of HiTek from our balance sheet, which would most likely require us to cease conducting our business.

 

Tabular Disclosure of Contractual Obligations

 

Below is a table setting forth all of our contractual obligations as of June 30, 2018:

 

Payment Due by Period
          Less than     1 – 3     3 – 5     More than  
Contractual Obligations   Total     1 year     years     years     5 years  
Operating lease obligations   $ 101,245     $ 51,380     $ 49,865     $     -     $      -  
Purchase obligation - internal use software     193,380       193,380       -       -       -  
Total   $ 294,625     $ 244,760     $ 49,865     $ -     $ -  

 

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INDUSTRY

 

The ACTCS Industry

 

History and Technology of ACTCS

 

According to State Administration of Taxation, in 1994 China implemented its VAT scheme as part of its national tax reform agenda. To strengthen the administration of VAT special invoices, the State Administration of Taxation (“SAT”) launched a pilot program to employ the ACTCS and computerized cross-checking system in some regions. This started the Golden Tax Project Phase I, which has played an active part in improving VAT administration. Based on the experience and lessons learned from the Golden Tax Project Phase I, the SAT started the Golden Tax Project Phase II in 1998. Four sub-systems under the ACTCS came into operation in the process for invoicing, e-certificate, cross-checking and investigation in 2001. By July 2003 all of the general VAT taxpayers (above a specified turnover threshold) across China were covered by the anti-counterfeiting tax control system. With the systematization and standardization of VAT administration, the crimes with respect to counterfeited VAT invoices have decreased and VAT administration has become more effective and efficient. Based on the Golden Tax Project Phase II, the SAT has exerted further efforts to develop an IT-based VAT administration. At present, the VAT Administration

 

ACTCS Information System, which is developed by the government, is a circular system composed of six sub-systems, which control invoicing, e-certificate, filing, cross-checking, verification and referral investigation, respectively. The system has helped enhancing the efficiency of VAT administration, improved the quality of the taxpayer service, reduced the cost of collection, and prevented tax loss. It has also contributed a lot to the goals of maintaining a steady stream of VAT revenues, building a level playing field and maintaining a stable growth of tax revenues in China.

 

The ACTCS that relates directly to our business is a patented national security product developed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. Our company reached an agreement with China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation to distribute the product in Xiamen and provide supporting services to ACTCS.

 

There are two core technologies that support ACTCS: “Secure Cryptography Algorithm and Decryption Technology” and “Black Box” storage technology. ACTCS provides complete value-added tax security and control solutions through a closed-loop process of tax invoice issuance, tax invoice sales, and tax deduction. This closed-loop process eliminates the problems of invoice counterfeits, providing accurate and complete tax information for the regional and national audit system.

 

Secure Cryptography Algorithm and Decryption Technology: This Chinese national security technology coordinates with the encryption function provided by the anti-counterfeiting tax control system. Together, they can encrypt data on an invoice (such as invoice date, invoice number and tax registration number) into anti-counterfeit codes (also known as ciphertext ), printed on a special invoice. A Black Box of a ACTCS records all the ciphertext information . To identify the authenticity of an invoice, customers can decrypt the ciphertext on the invoice through an authentication system, and then compare the decrypted information with the information on the invoice. If the decrypted information does not match the information presented on the invoice, then the invoice is a counterfeit.

 

Golden Tax Disk: This special-purpose hardware works in combination with the ACTCS software, and can only be purchased by retailers authorized by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation. With a USB interface, Golden Tax Disk is essential for ACTCS functions such as invoice data encryption and decryption and invoice management.

 

Black Box: Large-capacity invoice data storage device.

     

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Xiamen’s ACTCS Market

 

The PRC government requires each ACTCS service provider that offers ACTCS supporting service, ACTCS supporting software and ACTCS related hardware services (the “ACTCS Service Providers”) to obtain permission from the State Taxation Bureau. The ACTCS market has been growing steadily since the adoption of the ACTCS system in early 1996. According to Xiamen city government’s official economic report issued in 2017, there were 11,000 domestic-funded business enterprises, 10,500 foreign-funded business enterprises and 224,000 private-owned business enterprises. All these business enterprises are mandated by the Chinese government to use ACTCS for their VAT reporting, collection and processing. With an estimated growth rate of 30,000 business enterprises each year in Xiamen metropolitan area, HiTek expects an estimated growth rate of 7,000 clients each year.

 

While the ACTCS market has benefitted from a solid growth rate, it is also very stable due to heavy government regulations. In addition, the general PRC ACTCS markets are concentrated into a handful of large providers in major cities. Business entities within a designated ACTCS service region cannot seek business or compete outside this service region.

 

The Chinese IT Industry

 

The PRC market of IT services is growing very fast since around 2006. According to the 2018 Market Report of China’s Enterprise IT Operations Management (iResearch 2018 Report) published by iResearch Inc. (艾瑞咨询 ), several factors have contributed to the rapid growth of the IT service market. For instance, the government has been publishing favorable policies and regulations to the IT industry. Further, at the macroeconomic level, the services industries as a whole has been developing rapidly, with an average growth rate of 12.2% since the year of 2011. In 2016, GDP generated by the services industries represented 51.6% of the total GDP of China of the same year.

 

The PRC market of IT services is mainly comprised of four main sub-markets: IT Service Market, Market of Operations Services for IT Data Centers, Market of Third-party Operations Services for IT Data Centers, and IT Operations & Analytics Market. According to the iResearch 2018 Report, the IT Service Market has been growing at an average rate of 13.5% since 2012, and successfully reached a market size of RMB 523.18 billion (approximately $ 78.77 billion) in 2016, which represents a 65.88% growth from the size of RMB 315.40 billion in 2012. In addition, the market size is projected to grow at a rate of 16.5% after 2016. The IT Service Market has so far been the largest sub-market within the general market of enterprise IT operations management. According to the iResearch 2018 Report, the Market of Operations Services for IT Data Centers has been growing at an average rate of 15.7% since 2012, and successfully reached a market size of RMB 149.64 billion, which represents a 79.4% growth from the size of 83.59 billion in 2012. The Market of Third-party Operations Services for IT Data Centers has been developing rapidly as well, with an average growth rate of around 20.0%. The market size of was measured to be RMB 66.58 billion in 2016, which represents a 109.63% increase from that of RMB 31.76 billion on 2012. The IT Operations & Analytics Market is still in the process of development. According to the iResearch 2018 Report, even though the market size is relatively small compared to the other three sub-markets, it has been developing at a high growth rate. Overall, the market size increased from RMB 4.64 billion in 2012 to RMB 7.31 billion in 2016, representing a 57.5% growth.

 

Third-party operations services for IT data centers have been widely adopted in many different industries, including finance, telecommunications, electricity, transportations, etc. As such, the demand for third-party operations services are projected to increase in the future, and the market size is predicted to grow accordingly.

 

The Chinese Computer Hardware Sales Industry

 

According to Euromonitor International Limited, retail volume sales of computers and computer hardware has been declining since 2017, hit by the economic slowdown and the strong competition from smartphones. Most consumers use their own computers for recreation purposes rather than work when staying at home or travelling. With the growing penetration rate for smartphones and the popularity of large-screen smartphones (screen size >= 5.5”), a growing number of consumers do not feel the need to own or replace their computer with a new one, as they can browse websites, interact via social media and purchase online with their smartphones. On the other hand, business computers enjoyed volume growth of 2% in 2017, driven by strong demand from education institutions.

 

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BUSINESS

 

Overview

 

We are an information technology (“IT”) consulting and solutions service provider focusing on delivering services to business in various industry sectors in China. As of the date of prospectus, we have two lines of businesses— 1) services to small and medium businesses (“SMEs”), which consists of Anti-Counterfeiting Tax Control System (“ACTCS”) tax devices, ACTCS services, and IT services, and 2) services to large businesses, which consists of hardware sales and software sales. We expect to actively develop our system integration services and online service platform in the near future. Our vision is to become a one-stop consulting destination for holistic IT and other business consulting services in China.

 

Our VIE entity, Xiamen Hengda HiTek Computer Network Co., Ltd. (“HiTek”), is one of the first service providers in the city of Xiamen to support business entities required by the Chinese government to utilize the Anti-Counterfeiting Tax Control System (ACTCS) for value added tax (“VAT”) collection procedures in 1996. HiTek was incorporated in the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”) on January 18, 1996 and currently has two subsidiaries: Xiamen Huasheng HiTek Computer Network Co., Ltd. (“Huasheng”), our hardware sales business entity, and Huoerguosi Hengda Information Technology Co., Ltd. (“Huoerguosi”), our operating subsidiary.

 

Authorized by the Xiamen State Taxation Bureau in 1996, we have leveraged and grown our income stream on ACTCS, which was developed by the government-owned entity China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation to ensure the security and effectiveness of the PRC’s national tax collection processes. Our ACTCS services uniquely positioned us to capture 40% of Xiamen’s tax collection market share in 2017, with around 38,000 active users. In addition to our ACTCS supporting services, we also provide ACTCS device sales. Our ACTCS related business has grown significantly from 1996 to 2017, with our SMEs client base having grown by 120,000% and ACTCS annual service orders by SMEs having grown by 20,000%. We have the largest ACTCS user base in the Xiamen metropolitan area in 2017, according to the Xiamen Province Taxation Bureau.

 

The ACTCS is one of the two mandatory software for all business enterprises in China who have value-added tax remitting responsibilities. The ACTCS software provides complete value-added tax security and control solutions through a closed-loop process, which includes tax invoice issuance, tax invoice sales, and tax deduction. The closed-loop process was designed to effectively eliminate invoice counterfeits, providing accurate and complete tax information for regional and national audit system.

 

We have built up our reputation and goodwill upon a large client base in SMEs since our first day of operations in the Xiamen metropolitan area in 1996. The ACTCS software is compatible with various types of businesses and we provide ACTCS services for clients from small business owners to medium-size business entities. Our software engineers work to improve ACTCS user experience regularly, ensuring our clients’ efficiency and privacy when they process their tax information. According to Xiamen Bureau of Statistics, there are currently around 245,500 ACTCS users in Xiamen; amongst these, around 63,700 are our clients. This significant client base enables us to accumulate economic and social data, which provides us with a unique perspective into our client’s various needs. This knowledge has been critical to our Company’s business development and has enabled us to develop new service areas such as online agent accounting platforms and online IT outsourcing platforms, both of which have been in operation in October 2018. In an effort to expand our client base, we have launched a “WeChat Cloud Service Management System” in the beginning of 2018 that transmuted our traditional offline service business into online services, resolving the shortcomings of traditional ACTCS service model. This has led to an ever-growing client base and has enabled us to integrate data received from different subsystems and platforms, increasing our productivity and market competitiveness.

 

We have a roadmap for both short-term and long-term profits. For example, by focusing on the application of the ACTCS software, we have made significant progress that improves our clients’ user experience, which includes ACTCS interface and invoice management software we developed in 2013 and 2014. In addition to the ACTCS software related services, we provide our clients with ACTCS devices device services. A business model that combines both ACTCS devices and software services has enabled us to provide personalized customer services in response to our clients’ need. We believe that in the long-term our brand-recognition and large client base will enable us in introducing more innovative online products and services, facilitating our clients’ business growth.

  

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Our VIE entity, HiTek, is authorized to carry out the sales of Golden Tax Disk. This business is authorized in connection with HiTek’s ACTCS software services and HiTek is mandated to conduct such business only in the Xiamen metropolitan area. The purchase of GTD is allowed only in conjunction with the use of the ACTCS software and its supporting services. Within HiTek’s corporate operations, HiTek has one distribution center, from which all GTD sales are conducted. HiTek does not offer direct to customers GTD delivery but offers free on-site installation. The ACTCS devices orders are fulfilled from HiTek’s special GTD warehouse.

 

Since the beginning of 2017, HiTek has also generated revenue from its IT service business provided to SMEs in Xiamen area. HiTek provides outsourced IT support and maintenance services for its clients. HiTek’s IT service business is directly responsible for, without limitation, periodically check, daily repairing and maintenance service, technical support for client’s IT facilities and IT disaster recovery.

 

As part of the services provided to large businesses, HiTek currently sells Communication Interface System(“CIS”), its self-developed software which provides embedded system interface solutions for large businesses. CIS is a universal embedded interface system used in petrochemical and coal businesses to collect industrial, electricity, facility pressure and temperature statistics and convert to readable format for analytical purposes.

 

As part of our services provided to large businesses, Huasheng currently sells hardware such as laptops, printers, desktop computers and associated accessories, together with certain internet servers, cameras and monitors. Huasheng’s major business strategy in its market is to connect and source through exclusive relationships with manufacturers so that Huasheng can offer competitively priced hardware. Huasheng has established its online support system in the beginning of 2018. The online system further enhances Huasheng’s customer experience, which is complemented by highly trained professionals and attractive physical store environment.

 

For the six months ended June 30, 2018, HiTek’s two business lines operated in four revenue streams: (1) services to large businesses-- hardware sales (31.2%), software sales (20.2%), and (2) services to SMEs-- IT services (13.4%), ACTCS devices and services (35.2%). For the year ended December 31, 2017, HiTek’s two business lines operated in four revenue streams: (1) services to large businesses-- hardware sales (36.4%), software sales (19%), and (2) services to SMEs-- IT services (11.4%), ACTCS devices and services (33.3%). For the year ended December 31, 2016, HiTek’s two business lines operated in three revenue streams – (1) services to large businesses-- hardware sales (60.6%), software sales (3.8%), and (2) services to SMEs-- ACTCS devices and services (35.6%). HiTek’s revenue streams are strategic business revenue under its services to large businesses and services to SMEs.

 

Our History and Corporate Structure

 

We were incorporated in the Cayman Islands on November 3, 2017. Hitek Hong Kong Limited (“HiTek HK”), our wholly-owned subsidiary, was incorporated in Hong Kong on November 20, 2017. Tian Dahai (Xiamen) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (“WFOE”), HiTek HK’s wholly owned subsidiary, was organized pursuant to PRC laws on March 15, 2018. Our variable interest entity, Xiamen Hengda HiTek Computer Network Co., Ltd., which we refer to as HiTek, was established on January 18, 1996 in Xiamen, Fujian Province, PRC pursuant to PRC laws. HiTek’s shareholders include certain PRC residents and corporate entities controlled by PRC residents.

   

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On March 31, 2018, the Company consummated a reorganization pursuant to which, WFOE, HiTek and HiTek’s shareholders entered into a series of contractual arrangements. Such agreements are described under “Business — Contractual Agreements between WFOE and HiTek. Hitek Global Inc. is a holding company with no business operation other than holding the shares in Hitek HK and Hitek HK is a pass-through entity with no business operation. WFOE is exclusively engaged in the business of managing the operation of HiTek.

 

Pursuant to PRC laws, each entity formed under PRC law shall have certain business scope approved by the Administration of Industry and Commerce or its local counterpart. As such, WFOE’s business scope is to primarily engage in business development, technology service, technology consulting, intellectual property service and business management consulting. Since the sole business of WFOE is to provide HiTek with technical support, consulting services and other management services relating to its day-to-day business operations and management in exchange for a consulting fee solely at WFOE’s discretion and can be the net income of HiTek, such business scope is necessary and appropriate under the PRC laws. HiTek, on the other hand, has been granted a business scope different from WFOE to enable it to provide ACTCS tax device and services, hardware sales, software sales and IT services.

   

We control HiTek through contractual agreements, which are described under “Business — Contractual Agreements between WFOE and HiTek. Hitek Global Inc. is a holding company with no business operation other than holding the shares in Hitek HK and Hitek HK is a pass-through entity with no business operation. WFOE is exclusively engaged in the business of managing the operation of HiTek.

  

Our corporate structure as of the date of this prospectus is as follows:

 

  

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Contractual Arrangements between WFOE and HiTek

 

Due to PRC legal restrictions on foreign ownership in the telecommunications sector, neither we nor our subsidiaries own any equity interest in HiTek. Instead, we control and receive the economic benefits of HiTek’s business operation through a series of contractual arrangements. WFOE, HiTek and its shareholders entered into a series of contractual arrangements, also known as VIE Agreements, on March 31, 2018. The VIE agreements are designed to provide WFOE with the power, rights and obligations equivalent in all material respects to those it would possess as the sole equity holder of HiTek, including absolute control rights and the rights to the assets, property and revenue of HiTek.

 

Each of the VIE Agreements is described in detail below:

 

Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement

 

Pursuant to the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement between HiTek and WFOE, WFOE provides HiTek with technical support, consulting services and other management services relating to its day-to-day business operations and management, on an exclusive basis, utilizing its advantages in technology, business management and information. For services rendered to HiTek by WFOE under this agreement, WFOE is entitled to collect a service fee that shall be paid per quarter in accordance with the consulting and service actually provided by WFOE. WFOE has the right, solely at its discretion, to determine the amount of the fees to be paid, and both parties agree to, at WFOE’s discretion, amend or enter into supplementary agreement in respect of the provisions under this agreement regarding consulting fees. The consulting fees could be 100% of HiTek’s quarterly profit.

 

The Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement shall remain in effect for ten years unless earlier terminated upon written confirmation from both WFOE and HiTek before expiration. Otherwise, this agreement shall be extended by another ten years. HiTek does not have the right to terminate the agreement unilaterally.

 

The legal representative of WFOE, Mr. Shenping Yin, is currently managing HiTek pursuant to the terms of the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement. WFOE has absolute authority relating to the management of HiTek, including but not limited to decisions with regard to expenses, salary raises and bonuses, hiring, firing and other operational functions. The Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement does not prohibit related party transactions. Upon establishment of the audit committee at the consummation of this offering, the audit committee of the registrant will be required to review and approve in advance any related party transactions, including transactions involving WFOE or HiTek.

 

Equity Interest Pledge Agreement

 

Under the Equity Interest Pledge Agreement between WFOE and Xiaoyang Huang, Shenping Yin, Bo Shi, Zhishuang Wang, Liuqing Huang, Jingru Li, Mian Tang, Ce Tian, Xianfeng Lin, Inner Mongolia Guangxin Investment Co., Ltd. and Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd., together holding 100% shares of HiTek (“HiTek Shareholders”), the HiTek Shareholders pledged all of their equity interests in HiTek to WFOE to guarantee the performance of HiTek’s obligations under the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement. Under the terms of the agreement, in the event that HiTek breaches its contractual obligations under the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement, WFOE, as pledgee, will be entitled to certain rights, including, but not limited to, the right to collect dividends generated by the pledged equity interests. The HiTek Shareholders also agreed that upon occurrence of any event of default, as set forth in the Equity Interest Pledge Agreement, WFOE is entitled to dispose of the pledged equity interest in accordance with applicable PRC laws. The HiTek Shareholders further agree not to dispose of the pledged equity interests or take any actions that would prejudice WFOE’s interest.

 

The Equity Interest Pledge Agreement shall be effective until all payments due under the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement have been paid by HiTek. WFOE shall cancel or terminate the Equity Interest Pledge Agreement upon HiTek’s full payment of fees payable under the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement.

   

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The purposes of the Equity Interest Pledge Agreement are to (1) guarantee the performance of HiTek’s obligations under the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement, (2) ensure the HiTek Shareholders do not transfer or assign the pledged equity interests, or create or allow any encumbrance that would prejudice WFOE’s interests without WFOE’s prior written consent and (3) provide WFOE control over HiTek. Under the Equity Interests Purchase Agreement, WFOE may be able to acquire the equity interests in HiTek any time to the extent permitted by the PRC Law. In the event HiTek breaches its contractual obligations under the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement, WFOE will be entitled to foreclose on the HiTek Shareholders’ equity interests in HiTek and may (1) exercise its option to purchase or designate third parties to purchase part or all of their equity interests in HiTek and in this situation, WFOE may terminate the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement, Equity Interest Pledge Agreement and Exclusive Equity Interests Purchase Agreement after acquisition of all equity interests in HiTek or form new VIE structure with the third parties designated by WFOE; or (2) dispose the pledged equity interests and be paid in priority out of proceed from the disposal in which case the VIE structure will be terminated.

 

Exclusive Equity Interests Purchase Agreement

 

Under the Exclusive Equity Interests Purchase Agreement, the HiTek Shareholders irrevocably granted WFOE (or its designee) an exclusive right to purchase, to the extent permitted under PRC law, once or at multiple times, at any time, a portion or whole of the equity interests in HiTek held by the HiTek Shareholders. The purchase price is equal to the capital paid in by the HiTek Shareholders subject to any appraisal or restrictions required by applicable PRC laws and regulations. As of the date of this prospectus, if WFOE exercised such exclusive right, the total purchase price that would be paid to all of the HiTek Shareholders would be approximately $990,069, which is the aggregate registered capital of HiTek.

 

Under the Exclusive Equity Interests Purchase Agreement, WFOE may at any time under any circumstances, purchase, or have its designated person to purchase, at its discretion, to the extent permitted under PRC law, all or part of the shareholders’ equity interests in HiTek. The Exclusive Equity Interests Purchase Agreement, together with the Equity Interest Pledge Agreement and the Powers of Attorney, enable WFOE to exercise effective control over HiTek.

 

The agreement remains effective for a term of ten years and may be extended by another ten years at WFOE’s election.

 

Powers of Attorney

 

Under each Power of Attorney, each HiTek Shareholder authorizes WFOE to act on their behalf as their exclusive agent and attorney with respect to all rights as shareholders, including but not limited to: (a) the attendance of the shareholder’s meeting and the execution of relative Shareholder Resolution(s) of HiTek; (b) exercising all the shareholder’s rights, including voting, that shareholders are entitled to under the laws of China and the Articles of Association, including but not limited to the sale or transfer or pledge or disposition of shares in part or in whole; and (c) designating and appointing on behalf of shareholders the legal representative, the executive director, supervisor, the chief executive officer and other senior management members of HiTek.

 

Although it is not explicitly stipulated in the Powers of Attorney, the term of the Powers of Attorney shall be the same as the term of that of the Exclusive Equity Interests Purchase Agreement.

 

The Powers of Attorney are coupled with an interest and shall be irrevocable and continuously valid from the date of their execution, so long as the relevant HiTek Shareholder is a shareholder of Company.

  

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Our Business Strategies

 

We intend to drive the growth of our business by executing on the following strategies:

 

  Leveraging our existing ACTCS client base to deepen our relationship with our ACTCS clients and expanding our service and hardware sales offerings. As an ACTCS service and hardware sales provider, we currently work with approximately 50,000 ACTCS clients based in Xiamen that we believe have a wide range of organizational service needs and needs for various hardware products and systems to support their organizations. We expect such service needs to include, without limitation, technology- and finance-related organization needs. Leveraging our existing well-recognized service reputation in the ACTCS industry, we believe that we can deepen our relationship with existing ACTCS clients to provide expanded service offerings to respond to their business, finance, technology and organizational needs.
     
  Broadening our geographic coverage with our online service platform to become a full-service platform with national coverage. With the recent launch of our online service platform capable of servicing the needs of our ACTCS customers primarily through online customer and technical support, and covering various aspects of the VAT filing process, we intend to support more service offerings for our customers. We have various software programs and online customer support processes in progress, which combined together are expected to provide full-service support with respect to tax, finance and IT services. We intend to offer our clients connection to other local, third-party service providers through our online platform, so that they are able to seek business, technology and operational support via our online service platform. We believe this will enable our expansion beyond the Xiamen market to reach national service coverage.

 

  In the next few years, we plan to complete our full-service platform and aim to transfer 85% of our clients onto the platform. We plan to offer business management service, such as agent accounting services, online IT outsourcing services, [●] and [●] to the SME clients using our ACTCS services. We also plan to expand our service to large businesses to other geographic regions.

 

Market Opportunities

 

We believe that companies of all sizes and across all industries in the Xiamen metropolitan area will continue to use ACTCS software and ACTCS tax device to process their VAT filing, as well as supporting services to help them automate, facilitate and accelerate the filing process. As such, based on statistics from Xiamen State Administration of Taxation, we estimate the ACTCS service industry in the Xiamen metropolitan area will generate approximately an additional $5,164,146 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2018. We calculated this number by estimating the total number of competitors in our immediate core markets in the Xiamen metropolitan area across big business entities and SMEs. We then apply a government assigned contract value as well as our supporting service value (“collected value”) for ACTCS services in Xiamen area to each respective company based on its size, industry, and location in accordance to PRC tax regulation. We then utilized data collected from our current and past clients based on investment spend for ACTCS related services by size and industry. For example, we have applied the average collected value of our clients with top 100 revenue-generating capabilities, which we believe have applied for a relatively broader implementation of our ACTCS services. For medium-sized business entities, we have applied an average collected value on current commercial customer spend by size and industry. For small business enterprises, we have simply applied the annual price for our most basic plan. For more information regarding the estimates of market opportunity and the forecasts of market growth included in this prospectus, see the sections titled “Industry and Market” and “Business- Overview.”

 

We believe that Chinese IT Market will continue its growth. Application software will still be the major source of growth. Various factors together will provide good external environment for the rapid development of China’s software industry, including the informationization of enterprises and social production, governmental and policy support, as well as the market demand growth of multimedia market-based education, video, games and other software, etc. In addition, China’s IT services market is very promising. By estimation, the growth rate of the IT services market in 2018 will be higher than that in 2017, which is about 30%, and the proportion of the IT services sector in the entire IT market will continue increasing.

 

We believe that Chinese Computer Hardware market will continue its growth, even though the speed of its growth has been slowed down in the past years. According to Euromonitor International socioeconomic data, retail volume sales of desktops are expected to see dwindling demand in the forecast period, with a negative retail volume compound annual growth rate (“CAGR”) of 5% and a negative value CAGR of 4%. Real GDP growth will slow down in China. The poor economic performance will hamper the demand for new PCs and lengthen the replacement cycle. As a result of a general fall in sales of PCs, peripherals will also suffer a decline in volume terms over 2017-2022. Nevertheless, the desire for ultra-thin, gaming and convertible products will help to stimulate total volume sales of laptops over the forecast period.

 

Our Competitive Strengths

 

The ACTCS business market in which we compete has a high entry barrier and newcomers are strictly scrutinized by the Chinese government. Although the market is continuously growing and evolving, we do not believe any single competitor in the Xiamen metropolitan area currently has a directly comparable client base and customer goodwill as well as end-to-end ACTCS service as ours. In addition, newcomers who want to enter this highly regulated market face increasingly rigorous scrutiny from a variety of government agencies before they can be authorized to operate ACTCS related businesses. We believe that we will maintain our first-mover advantage in the Xiamen ACTCS service market for years to come.

  

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Visionary Management Team

 

We have a talented and long-serving management team who have led us through multiple business breakthroughs. Most of our senior management team has been with us for around 20 years. Our Chief Executive Officer, Shenping Yin, is a leader in the Chinese IT industry with more than 20 years of experience. He is very well connected and has been involved in many large influential projects in China, managing client relations and serving as business counsel for the Chinese upstream heavy industries. The major projects he has engaged in include North Santai automation project for Xinjiang Zhundong Company, Luliang oilfield automation project for SINOPEC’s Xinjiang Subsidiary, automation engineering project Jidong oilfield, building automation project for the Fujian Quanzhou State Taxation Bureau Building and household registration management system project for the Ministry of Public Security. He was instrumental in building our company’s business and our success today.

 

Technology-Driven Experts

 

Our innovative IT talent and technology-focused business culture have enabled us to become a leader in Xiamen’s ACTCS devices and services industry. As of June 30, 2018, we had 3 full-time research and development professionals and 6 technical assistants focusing on various technology breakthroughs; 65% of our employees held Bachelor’s degrees and 26% of our employees held Master’s degrees or Ph.Ds. In the early 2018, we have established joint IT research collaborative syndicates with other Internet technology companies for innovative Internet service projects such as the Tax Service Mobile APP and WeChat Cloud Charging System. As of June 30, 2018, we had 9 Registration of Computer Software Copyright Certificates (the “Certificate”) in China covering VAT tax areas and internet technology areas, which we developed prior to year 2015. Six Certificates were issued in 2015 and three Certificates were issued in 2017.   

 

Robust client base with established brand recognition

 

We are one of the earliest companies authorized by the Chinese government to undertake ACTCS business in the Xiamen metropolitan area. Over the past 22 years, we have built a strong reputation amongst tax/finance professionals in the Xiamen metropolitan area. This level of brand recognition has gradually become one of our major marketing strategies. We also organize tax and finance related seminars regularly, developing client loyalty and enhancing the relationship between our customers and specialists.

 

We also established our good brand recognition upon a solid client base, consisting of small, medium and large business enterprises in the Xiamen metropolitan area. The ACTCS software is compatible with most types of businesses, offering service for clients from small business owners to large business enterprises. We estimate that there are currently around 120,000 ACTCS users in Xiamen; amongst these, 49,791 of them are our clients. Such solid client base and brand recognition enable us to utilize client resources for new monetization models. For example, we have offered IT outsourcing services for selective qualifying clients, providing significant support for the sustainable growth of our business. Our robust client base has also been critical to our planned future business development—we believe that we will be able to solicit substantial system integration clients and IT service clients directly from our large business entities and SMEs client base in the future, providing us with opportunities to work on innovative projects that brings technology breakthroughs.

 

Carefully Planned Marketing Efforts

 

We believe that our business goodwill is not just built through our quality service, but also through our effective marketing strategy that maximizes the availability as well as the prestige of our service. For example, the relationships and trust with referring HiTek’s specialists are developed through in-person shop visits near governmental tax agencies by our loyal customers and local tax officials. Our carefully planned and implemented marketing efforts lead to a stronger service referral base, better networking opportunities, increased customer volume, and improved client satisfaction. In addition, we help our service teams maintain productivity during effective deployment and adjust deployment schedules to support our physical store front’s capacity requirements.

 

While we are confident that our competitive strengths will continue improving our business, we are keenly aware of the challenges that our business faces, especially the challenges in our services to SMEs which are stemmed from the ACTCS services. The services provided to the SMEs are restricted in the Xiamen metropolitan areas since we are only authorized by the State Taxation Bureau, Xiamen Branch to provide ACTCS services which is the cornerstone of our services to the SMEs. Prices of GTD and ACTCS annual service fees are regulated and subject to the State Tax Administration’s pricing mandates. We are not able to adjust such pricing and as such our profit margin is limited. In recent years, the Chinese tax regulators have been rolling out he electronic invoicing. Increased use of electronic invoices will reduce our SME client base substantially in the future. Our client base growth may be limited in spite of our diligent marketing efforts since it is beyond our control how many new SMEs will open each year in the Xiaman metropolitan area.

  

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Services

 

For the year ended June 30, 2018, HiTek’s two business lines operated in four revenue streams: (1) services to large businesses-- hardware sales (31.2%), software sales (20.2%), and (2) services to SMEs-- IT services (13.4%), ACTCS devices and services (35.2%). For the year ended December 31, 2017, HiTek’s two business lines operated in four revenue streams: (1) services to large businesses-- hardware sales (36.4%), software sales (19%), and (2) services to SMEs-- IT services (11.4%), ACTCS devices and services (33.3%). For the year ended December 31, 2016, HiTek’s two business lines operated in three revenue streams – (1) services to large businesses-- hardware sales (60.6%), software sales (3.8%), and (2) services to SMEs-- ACTCS devices and services (35.6%). HiTek’s revenue streams are strategic business revenue under its services to large businesses and services to SMEs.

 

We generate substantial revenue from our ACTCS related services. Our SMEs client base and excellent customer support allow us to enhance the effectiveness of each of our targeted ACTCS service link, thereby strengthening our overall monetization capabilities.

 

We started to generate revenue by offering IT services, primarily contracted to resolve our clients’ IT issues in 2017. We also generate revenue from selling CIS software that we developed in 2014. In addition, we generate substantial revenue from hardware sales, which consist of selling laptops, printers, desktop computers and associated accessories, together with certain internet servers, cameras and monitors.

 

ACTCS Device and Services

 

For ACTCS supporting services, we charge fees on a yearly basis. This service guarantees smooth functions of ACTCS software covers any technical breakdowns related to the ACTCS software.

 

Our ACTCS device consist primarily of selling GTD. For ACTCS devices sales, we charge one a piece-by-piece basis. Revenue generated from our ACTCS device and services accounted for 35.6% and 33.3%, respectively, of the total revenue derived from our general ACTCS services in 2016 and 2017.

 

In October 2018, we began to operate new service areas such as online agent accounting platforms and online IT outsourcing platforms. We intend to actively grow such general business management services.

 

IT Services

 

Our IT services primarily focus on resolving our clients’ IT issues, for which we charge fees on a project basis.

 

Revenue generated from our IT services accounted for 0% and 11.34%, respectively, of the total revenue derived from our businesses in 2016 and 2017.

 

Software Sales

 

For our software sales, we sell our self-developed Communication Interface System (“CIS”). This software provides embedded system interface solutions for large businesses. CIS is a universal embedded interface system used in petrochemical and coal businesses to collect industrial, electricity, facility pressure and temperature statistics and convert to readable format for analytical purposes. Currently, almost all of the software sales revenue comes from sales of CIS. We do not resell any software developed by any third party.

 

Revenue generated from our software sales accounted for 3.8%, 19%, respectively, of the total revenue derived from our businesses in 2016 and 2017.

 

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Hardware Sale

 

We also generate revenue from our hardware sales, which includes sales of computer hardware such as laptops, printers, desktop computers and associated accessories, together with certain internet servers, cameras and monitors. We have established a carefully designed sales network in the Xiamen metropolitan area that combines online platforms developed in the beginning of 2018 and our retail storefront. We have developed our hardware sale client base over time via our marketing from our physical store. After we launched CIS sales, we also introduced our hardware products to our CIS users.   We plan to market large scale hardware integration systems such as router for commercial use, industrial switch, server, large internet firewall etc. to large businesses in the future.

 

Revenue generated from our hardware sales accounted for 60.6% and 36.4%, respectively, of the total revenue derived from our businesses in 2016 and 2017.

 

Our Technology

 

We provide effective information technology services and secured tax solutions to business enterprises across a variety of monetization models. We have a dedicated team of nine highly skilled in-house IT specialists, which includes three full-time IT professionals responsible for research and development. The following is a list of our self-developed software.

   

Technology   Completion Date   Certificate Date   General Functions
Mobile Invoice System (“MIS”)   October 15, 2013   June 15, 2015   MIS enables our clients to generate invoices anywhere, anytime.
Micro Service System (“MSS”)   July 30, 2014   June 16, 2015   MSS resolves service issues between service providers and our customers.  
Secured Coordination System (“SCS”)   April 10, 2013   June 16, 2015   SCS provides real-time backup for the invoicing information generated by the users.

Communication Interface System (“CIS”)

  April 17, 2014   June 15, 2015   CIS is based on LINUX, which is a general embedded interface system used in petrochemical and coal enterprises. The system can be used to communicate the RCTX-X module and collect data from work diagrams, electricity diagrams, pressure diagrams and temperature diagrams. It can generate the data from the txt, and then copy and import it to the software of the windows platform to display analysis.
Universal Invoice System (“UIS”)   February 13, 2014   June 16, 2015   AIS facilitates data transmission between users’ management and financial systems and ACTCS software.  
Invoice Query Management System (“IQMS”)   October 30, 2013   June 15, 2015   IQMS facilitates users’ invoice inquiries and verification process.    
Micro-App System (“MAS”)   August 10, 2017   December 1, 2017   MAS diagnoses and resolves user-end application issues.
WeChat Cloud Business System (“WCBS”)   May 10, 2017   December 1, 2017   WCBS facilitates online transactions between the Company and its clients.  
Collaborative Management System (“CMS”)   October 10, 2017   December 1, 2017   CMS facilitates our clients’ business and data management process amongst multiple operating systems.

 

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Customers

 

We rely upon several of our large customers from whom we generated substantial revenue each year, and the composition of our largest customers has changed from year to year. For the year ended June 30, 2018, two customers represented approximately 12% and 13% of HiTek’s revenue and one customer which was a related party of the HiTek represented approximately 14% of HiTek’s revenue. For the year ended December 31, 2017, four of our customers represented approximately 11%, 5%, 5% and 5% of the HiTek’s revenue, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2016, three of our customers represented approximately 26%, 10% and 3% of HiTek’s revenue, respectively. While we believe that one or more of our major customers could account for a significant portion of our sales for at least the year 2018, we anticipate that our customer base will continue to expand and that in the future we will be less dependent on major customers.

 

Suppliers

 

Aside from a set number of suppliers from whom we purchase general hardware for our resale business, we are required by the government to purchase our ACTCS devices from specific suppliers. In 2017, we have relied on one supplier for our ACTCS devices services, which constituted 10.4% of our hardware equipment sales. In general, for the six months ended June 30, 2018, one supplier accounted for 10% of the total purchases. For the year ended December 31, 2017, five of our suppliers accounted for 10%, 8%, 6%, 6% and 5% of the total purchases. For the year ended December 31, 2016, five suppliers accounted for 34.33%, 14.75%, 4.28%, 2.93% and 2.61% of the total purchases.

 

We enter into procurement agreements in the ordinary course of business with our suppliers, pursuant to a form of supply order typically on a “deal by deal” basis.

  

Marketing and Sales

 

Since inception, our user base in both the services to large businesses and service to SMEs has grown primarily through word of mouth recommendations, digital advertising, and social media advertising. We accumulated a loyal customer base to our hardware sales via our physical store. In general, we focus on delivering a superior user experience through better products and services, which we believe can expand our user base and enhance our brand. We do not have a specific budget for advertising since we have built our brand with very low marketing costs.

 

While we have significantly benefited from the effects of word of mouth recommendation, digital advertising, and social media advertising, we are considering cooperating with professional advertising companies to initiate campaigns designed to further promote our brand and services. We will finalize a definitive plan for this marketing initiation after our initial public offering on NASDAQ.

 

With respect to the services to SMEs, given the geographic limitation of our ACTCS services, we plan to focus on marketing and promotion of the business management service, which will include agent accounting services, online IT outsourcing services, [●] and [●] to the SMEs. On the services to large business side, we plan to focus on marketing and promotion of hardware integration system going forward.

 

Intellectual Property

 

Protection of our intellectual property is a strategic priority for our business. We rely on a combination of copyright, trademark and trade secret laws, as well as confidentiality agreements, to establish and protect our proprietary rights. Except for Chinese government developed ACTCS software used in connection with our day-to-day operations, we generally do not rely on third-party licenses of intellectual property for use in our business .

  

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Our research and development activities are project based and the number of projects we work on varies annually. As of June 30, 2018, we had 3 full-time research and development professionals. From 2014 to 2015, we had 9 full-time research and development professionals focused on various software development projects. We were successful in developing 9 software products and had obtained 6 Registration of Computer Software Copyright Certificates (the “Certificates”) in 2015 and 3 Certificates in 2017. Our Certificates last indefinitely. In the beginning of 2018, we established 2 joint IT research collaborative syndicates with other Internet technology companies for innovative Internet service projects such as the Tax Service Mobile APP and WeChat Cloud Charging System. In addition to the foregoing protections, we generally control access to and use of our proprietary and other confidential information through the use of internal and external controls, such as use of confidentiality agreement with our employees and outside consultants.

 

Research and Development

 

From 2014 to 2015, our R&D team mainly focused on developing two categories of software-- data collection software and ACTCS ancillary software. Among all the software we have developed, CIS is the only software product we are currently marketing and generated revenue. Our R&D team has established joint research syndicates with other Internet technology companies in early 2018. The syndicates are currently focusing on the development of Finance and Taxation Service Platform Mobile Application and Corporate Full Service Platform Mobile Application. The Finance and Taxation Service Platform Mobile Application is designed to [        ]. The Corporate Full Service Platform Mobile Application is designed to [         ].

 

Facilities

 

Our headquarters are located at Unit 304, No. 30 Guanri Road, Siming District, Xiamen City, Fujian Province, PRC, where we own the office building with an aggregate floor area of approximately 495 square meters. This includes our sales and marketing, communication and business development personnel and our management and operations facilities and customer services.

 

We currently lease from Xiamen Chengsen Computer System Engineering Co., Ltd. approximately 50 square meters of office space at B26/27, First Floor, No.28-36, Tianhu Road, Siming District in Xiamen, China under a lease that expires on May 31, 2019 and can be renewed subject to mutual agreements by Xiamen Chengsen Computer System Engineering Co., Ltd. and us.

 

Employees

 

We had 99, 106 and 96 employees as of December 31, 2015, 2016 and 2017, respectively. The following table sets forth the numbers of our employees categorized by function as of June 30, 2018:

 

    As of
June 30,
2018
Function:    
Management Department (HiTek)   7
Financial Department (HiTek)   6
Purchase and Sales Department (HiTek)   4
Technical Service Department (HiTek)   36
Sales Training Department (HiTek)   7
Hotline Service Department (HiTek)   9
Research and Development Department (HiTek)   3
Operation and Maintenance Department (HiTek)   4
Management Department (Huasheng)   1
Financial Department (Huasheng)   2
Administrative & Logistics Department (Huasheng)   2
Purchase and Sales Department (Huasheng)   5
Total   86

 

As of June 30, 2018, all of our employees were located in Xiamen, Fujian province, China.

  

As required by PRC laws and regulations, we participate in various employee social security plans that are organized by municipal and provincial governments, including housing, pension, medical insurance and unemployment insurance programs. We are required under Chinese law to make contributions to employee benefit plans at specified percentages of the salaries, bonuses and certain allowances of our employees, up to a maximum amount specified by the local government from time to time.

 

We believe that we maintain a good working relationship with our employees, and we have not experienced any labor disputes.

 

Legal Proceedings

 

We are currently not a party to any material legal or administrative proceedings. We may from time to time be subject to various legal or administrative claims and proceedings arising in the ordinary course of business. Litigation or any other legal or administrative proceeding, regardless of the outcome, is likely to result in substantial cost and diversion of our resources, including our management’s time and attention.

  

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REGULATIONS

 

We operate our business in China under a legal regime consisting of the National People’s Congress, which is the country’s highest legislative body, the State Council, which is the highest authority of the executive branch of the PRC central government, and several ministries and agencies under its authority, including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, State Administration For Industry & Commerce, State Administration of Taxation and their respective local offices. This section summarizes the principal PRC regulations related to our business.

 

Regulations on Value-added Tax Tax-control System Service Providers

 

The Circular on Issuing the Measures for the Supervision and Administration of Value-added Tax (VAT) Tax-control System Service Providers, or the SAT Circular 118, issued by the State Administration of Taxation (the “ SAT ”), or the SAT on October 9, 2015 and which became effective on November 1, 2015, regulates that the establishment and replacement of enterprises which engage in the sale of Value-added Tax tax-control system dedicated equipment (ACTCS tax device) and the provision of Value-added Tax tax-control system maintenance services to Value-added Tax payers using Value-added Tax tax-control system (the “ Service Provider ”) below the provincial level shall require the consent of the provincial authorities of the SAT. The service providers shall, pursuant to the SAT Circular 118, provide high-quality services to users, and guarantee their proper use of Value-added Tax tax-control system. The competent tax authorities are responsible for the supervision and administration of the service providers, and shall admonish the service providers, request them to make immediate correction, rectification or even cancel their service qualifications when service providers fail to meet the requirements of the SAT Circular 118.

     

As published on the official website of Xiamen Municipal office of SAT which is the provincial authority of the SAT at www.xm-n-tax.gov.cn/content/300662.html , our VIE entity, HiTek is one of the four recognized and qualified Service Providers in Xiamen.

 

Regulations on Value-added Telecommunication Services

 

On September 25, 2000, the State Council promulgated the Telecommunications Regulations of the PRC , or the Telecom Regulations, which was amended on July 29, 2014 and February 6, 2016. The Telecom Regulations is the primary PRC law governing telecommunication services and sets out the general regulatory framework for telecommunication services provided by PRC companies. The Telecom Regulations distinguishes between “basic telecommunication services” and “value-added telecommunication services.” The Telecom Regulations defines value-added telecommunications services as telecommunications and information services provided through public networks. Pursuant to the Telecom Regulations, commercial operators of value-added telecommunications services must first obtain an operating license from the MIIT, or its provincial level counterparts.

 

The Catalog of Telecommunications Business , or the Catalog, which was issued as an attachment to the Telecom Regulations and updated in February 21, 2003 and December 28, 2015, further categorizes value-added telecommunication services into two classes: Class 1 value-added telecommunication services and Class 2 value-added telecommunication services. Information services provided via cable networks, mobile networks or internet fall within Class 2 value-added telecommunications services.

 

On July 3, 2017, the MIIT issued the Measures on the Administration of Telecommunications Business Operating Permits , or the Telecom License Measures, which became effective on September 1, 2017, to supplement the Telecom Regulations. The Telecom License Measures sets forth the types of licenses required to operate value-added telecommunications services and the qualifications and procedures for obtaining such licenses. Any telecommunication services operator must conduct its business in accordance with the specifications in its license.

 

To comply with the foregoing laws and regulations, Our VIE entity, HiTek has obtained a Value-Added Telecommunications Services Operating License in 2018 for providing information services via internet, or the ICP License, which will remain effective until March 19, 2023.

  

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Regulations on Foreign Direct Investment in Value-Added Telecommunications Companies

 

Foreign direct investment in telecommunications companies in China is governed by the Provisions on the Administration of Foreign-Invested Telecommunications Enterprises , which was promulgated by the State Council on December 11, 2001 and amended on September 10, 2008 and February 6, 2016. These regulations require that foreign-invested value-added telecommunications enterprises in China must be established as Sino-foreign equity joint ventures and that the foreign investors may acquire up to 50% equity interests in such joint ventures. In addition, a major foreign investor in a value-added telecommunications business in China must demonstrate a good track record and experience in operating value-added telecommunications businesses. Moreover, foreign investors that meet these requirements must obtain approvals from the MIIT and the MOFCOM, to provide value-added telecommunication services in China and the MIIT and the MOFCOM retain considerable discretion in granting such approvals.

 

On July 13, 2006, the Ministry of Information Industry, or the MII, released the Notice on Strengthening the Administration of Foreign Investment in the Operation of Value-added Telecommunications Business , or the MII Notice, pursuant to which, for any foreign investor to invest in telecommunications businesses in China, a foreign-invested telecommunications enterprise must be established and such enterprise must apply for the relevant telecommunications business operation licenses. Furthermore, under the MII Notice, domestic telecommunications enterprises may not rent, transfer or sell a telecommunications business operation license to foreign investors in any form, and they may not provide any resources, premises, facilities and other assistance in any form to foreign investors for their illegal operation of any telecommunications business in China. In addition, under the MII Notice, the internet domain names and registered trademarks used by a value-added telecommunication service operator shall be legally owned by such operator or its shareholders.

 

Furthermore, the Guidance Catalog of Industries for Foreign Investment, or the Foreign Investment Catalog, the latest version of which was promulgated jointly by MOFCOM and the National Development and Reform Commission, or the NDRC, on June 28, 2017 and became effective on July 28, 2017, classifies businesses into four categories with regard to foreign investment: (1) “encouraged,” (2) “restricted,” (3) “prohibited” and (4) “permitted,” which includes all industries not listed under any one of the first three categories.

 

Regulations on Internet Content Providers

 

The Administrative Measures on Internet Information Services , or the Internet Content Measures, which was promulgated by the State Council on September 25, 2000 and amended on January 8, 2011, classifies internet information services into commercial internet information services and non-commercial internet information services. Commercial internet information services refer to services that provide information or services to internet users with charge. A provider of commercial internet information services must obtain an ICP License. Our VIE entity, HiTek has obtained the ICP License, which will remain effective until March19, 2023.

 

Regulations on Intellectual Property Rights

 

Regulations on copyright

 

The Copyright Law of the PRC , or the Copyright Law, which took effect on June 1, 1991 and was amended in 2001 and in 2010, provides that Chinese citizens, legal persons, or other organizations shall, whether published or not, own copyright in their copyrightable works, which include, among others, works of literature, art, natural science, social science, engineering technology and computer software. Copyright owners enjoy certain legal rights, including right of publication, right of authorship and right of reproduction. The Copyright Law as revised in 2010 extends copyright protection to Internet activities, products disseminated over the Internet and software products. In addition, Copyright Law provides for a voluntary registration system administered by the China Copyright Protection Center, or the CPCC. According to the Copyright Law, an infringer of the copyrights shall be subject to various civil liabilities, which include ceasing infringement activities, apologizing to the copyright owners and compensating the loss of copyright owner. Infringers of copyright may also subject to fines and/or administrative or criminal liabilities in severe situations.

  

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The Computer Software Copyright Registration Measures , or the Software Copyright Measures, promulgated by the State Council on December 20, 2001 and amended on January 30, 2013, regulates registrations of software copyright, exclusive licensing contracts for software copyright and assignment agreements. The National Copyright Administration, or the NCA administers software copyright registration and the CPCC, is designated as the software registration authority. The CPCC shall grant registration certificates to the Computer Software Copyrights applicants which meet the requirements of both the Software Copyright Measures and the Computer Software Protection Regulations (Revised in 2013) .

 

The Provisions of the Supreme People’s Court on Certain Issues Related to the Application of Law in the Trial of Civil Cases Involving Disputes on Infringement of the Information Network Dissemination Rights specifies that disseminating works, performances or audio-video products by the internet users or the internet service providers via the internet without the permission of the copyright owners shall be deemed to have infringed the right of dissemination of the copyright owner.

 

The Measures for Administrative Protection of Copyright Related to Internet , which was jointly promulgated by the NCA and the MIIT on April 29, 2005 and became effective on May 30, 2005, provides that upon receipt of an infringement notice from a legitimate copyright holder, an ICP operator must take remedial actions immediately by removing or disabling access to the infringing content. If an ICP operator knowingly transmits infringing content or fails to take remedial actions after receipt of a notice of infringement that harms public interest, the ICP operator could be subject to administrative penalties, including an order to cease infringing activities, confiscation by the authorities of all income derived from the infringement activities, or payment of fines.

 

On May 18, 2006, the State Council promulgated the Regulations on the Protection of the Right to Network Dissemination of Information (as amended in 2013). Under these regulations, an owner of the network dissemination rights with respect to written works or audio or video recordings who believes that information storage, search or link services provided by an Internet service provider infringe his or her rights may require that the Internet service provider delete, or disconnect the links to, such works or recordings.

 

Regulations on domain names

 

The MIIT promulgated the Measures on Administration of Internet Domain Names , or the Domain Name Measures, on August 24, 2017, which took effect on November 1, 2017 and replaced the Administrative Measures on China Internet Domain Name promulgated by MII on November 5, 2004. According to the Domain Name Measures, the MIIT is in charge of the administration of PRC internet domain names. The domain name registration follows a first-to-file principle. Applicants for registration of domain names shall provide the true, accurate and complete information of their identities to domain name registration service institutions. The applicants will become the holder of such domain names upon the completion of the registration procedure. We have registered the domain name of xmhitek.com in the PRC.

 

Regulations on Foreign Exchange

 

General administration of foreign exchange

 

Under the PRC Foreign Currency Administration Rules promulgated on January 29, 1996 and most recently amended on August 5, 2008 and various regulations issued by the SAFE and other relevant PRC government authorities, Renminbi is convertible into other currencies for current account items, such as trade-related receipts and payments and payment of interest and dividends. The conversion of Renminbi into other currencies and remittance of the converted foreign currency outside the PRC for of capital account items, such as direct equity investments, loans and repatriation of investment, requires the prior approval from the SAFE or its local office. Payments for transactions that take place within the PRC must be made in Renminbi. Unless otherwise approved, PRC companies may not repatriate foreign currency payments received from abroad or retain the same abroad. Foreign-invested enterprises may retain foreign exchange in accounts with designated foreign exchange banks under the current account items subject to a cap set by the SAFE or its local office. Foreign exchange proceeds under the current accounts may be either retained or sold to a financial institution engaged in settlement and sale of foreign exchange pursuant to relevant SAFE rules and regulations. For foreign exchange proceeds under the capital accounts, approval from the SAFE is generally required for the retention or sale of such proceeds to a financial institution engaged in settlement and sale of foreign exchange.

 

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Pursuant to the Circular of the SAFE on Further Improving and Adjusting Foreign Exchange Administration Policies for Direct Investment , or the SAFE Circular No. 59 promulgated by SAFE on November 19, 2012, which became effective on December 17, 2012 and was further amended on May 4, 2015, approval is not required for opening a foreign exchange account and depositing foreign exchange into the accounts relating to the direct investments. SAFE Circular No. 59 also simplified foreign exchange-related registration required for the foreign investors to acquire the equity interests of Chinese companies and further improve the administration on foreign exchange settlement for foreign-invested enterprises.

 

Pursuant to the Circular on Further Simplifying and Improving the Foreign Currency Management Policy on Direct Investment , or the SAFE Circular No. 13, effective from June 1, 2015, which cancels the administrative approvals of foreign exchange registration of direct domestic investment and direct overseas investment and simplifies the procedure of foreign exchange-related registration, the investors shall register with banks for direct domestic investment and direct overseas investment.

 

The Circular on Reforming the Management Approach regarding the Settlement of Foreign Capital of Foreign-invested Enterprise , or the SAFE Circular No. 19, which was promulgated by the SAFE on March 30, 2015 and became effective on June 1, 2015, provides that a foreign-invested enterprise may, according to its actual business needs, settle with a bank the portion of the foreign exchange capital in its capital account for which the relevant foreign exchange administration has confirmed monetary capital contribution rights and interests (or for which the bank has registered the injection of the monetary capital contribution into the account). Pursuant to the SAFE Circular No.19, for the time being, foreign-invested enterprises are allowed to settle 100% of their foreign exchange capitals on a discretionary basis; a foreign-invested enterprise shall truthfully use its capital for its own operational purposes within the scope of business; where an ordinary foreign-invested enterprise makes domestic equity investment with the amount of foreign exchanges settled, the invested enterprise shall first go through domestic re-investment registration and open a corresponding account for foreign exchange settlement pending payment with the foreign exchange administration or the bank at the place where it is registered.

 

The Circular on Reforming and Regulating Policies on the Control over Foreign Exchange Settlement of Capital Accounts , or the SAFE Circular No. 16, which was promulgated by the SAFE and became effective on June 9, 2016, provides that enterprises registered in the PRC may also convert their foreign debts from foreign currency into Renminbi on self-discretionary basis. The SAFE Circular No. 16 also provides an integrated standard for conversion of foreign exchange under capital account items (including but not limited to foreign currency capital and foreign debts) on self-discretionary basis, which applies to all enterprises registered in the PRC.

 

According to the Interim Measures for the Administration of Establishment and Change Filings of Foreign-invested Enterprises , which was promulgated by the MOFCOM and became effective on July 30, 2017, the Administrative Regulations on the Company Registration , which was promulgated by the State Council on June 24, 1994, became effective on July 1, 1994 and latest amended on February 6, 2016, and other laws and regulations governing the foreign invested enterprises and company registrations, the establishment of a foreign invested enterprise and any capital increase and other major changes in a foreign invested enterprise shall be registered with the State Administration for Industry and Commerce or its local counterparts, and shall be filed via the foreign investment comprehensive administrative system, or the FICMIS (“ MOFCOM Filing ”) if such foreign invested enterprise does not involve special access administrative measures prescribed by the PRC government.

 

Offshore investment

 

Under the Circular of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Issues Concerning the Foreign Exchange Administration over the Overseas Investment and Financing and Round-trip Investment by Domestic Residents via Special Purpose Vehicles , or the SAFE Circular 37, issued by the SAFE and effective on July 4, 2014, PRC residents are required to register with the local SAFE branch prior to the establishment or control of an offshore special purpose vehicle, or SPV, which is defined as offshore enterprises directly established or indirectly controlled by PRC residents for offshore equity financing of the enterprise assets or interests they hold in China. An amendment to registration or subsequent filing with the local SAFE branch by such PRC resident is also required if there is any change in basic information of the offshore company or any material change with respect to the capital of the offshore company. At the same time, the SAFE has issued the Operation Guidance for the Issues Concerning Foreign Exchange Administration over Round-trip Investment regarding the procedures for SAFE registration under the SAFE Circular 37, which became effective on July 4, 2014 as an attachment of Circular 37.

   

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Regulations on dividend distribution

 

The principal laws and regulations regulating the dividend distribution of dividends by foreign-invested enterprises in the PRC include the Company Law of the PRC , as amended in 2004, 2005 and 2013, the Wholly Foreign-owned Enterprise Law promulgated in 1986 and amended in 2000 and 2016 and its implementation regulations promulgated in 1990 and subsequently amended in 2001 and 2014, the Equity Joint Venture Law of the PRC promulgated in 1979 and subsequently amended in 1990, 2001 and 2016 and its implementation regulations promulgated in 1983 and subsequently amended in 1986, 1987, 2001, 2011 and 2014, and the Cooperative Joint Venture Law of the PRC promulgated in 1988 and amended in 2000 and 2016 and its implementation regulations promulgated in 1995 and amended in 2014 and 2017. Under the current regulatory regime in the PRC, foreign-invested enterprises in the PRC may pay dividends only out of their retained earnings, if any, determined in accordance with PRC accounting standards and regulations. A PRC company is required to set aside as statutory reserve funds at least 10% of its after-tax profit, until the cumulative amount of such reserve funds reaches 50% of its registered capital unless laws regarding foreign investment provide otherwise. A PRC company shall not distribute any profits until any losses from prior fiscal years have been offset. Profits retained from prior fiscal years may be distributed together with distributable profits from the current fiscal year.

 

Regulations on Taxation

 

Enterprise Income Tax

 

On March 16, 2007, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress promulgated the Law of the PRC on Enterprise Income Tax which was amended on February 24, 2017 and on December 6, 2007, the State Council enacted the Regulations for the Implementation of the Law on Enterprise Income Tax , or collectively, the EIT Law. The EIT Law came into effect on January 1, 2008. Under the EIT Law, both resident enterprises and non-resident enterprises are subject to tax in the PRC. Resident enterprises are defined as enterprises that are established in China in accordance with PRC laws, or that are established in accordance with the laws of foreign countries but are actually or in effect controlled from within the PRC. Non-resident enterprises are defined as enterprises that are organized under the laws of foreign countries and whose actual management is conducted outside the PRC, but have established institutions or premises in the PRC, or have no such established institutions or premises but have income generated from inside the PRC. Under the EIT Law and relevant implementing regulations, a uniform corporate income tax rate of 25% is applied. However, if non-resident enterprises have not formed permanent establishments or premises in the PRC, or if they have formed permanent establishment or premises in the PRC but there is no actual relationship between the relevant income derived in the PRC and the established institutions or premises set up by them, enterprise income tax is set at the rate of 10% with respect to their income sourced from inside the PRC.

 

Value-added Tax

 

The Provisional Regulations of the PRC on Value-added Tax were promulgated by the State Council on December 13, 1993 and came into effect on January 1, 1994 which were subsequently amended on November 10, 2008 and came into effect on January 1, 2009 and most recently amended on February 6, 2016. The Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Provisional Regulations of the PRC on Value-added Tax (Revised in 2011) was promulgated by the Ministry of Finance on December 25, 1993 and subsequently amended on December 15, 2008 and October 28, 2011, or collectively, VAT Law. On November 19, 2017, the State Council promulgated The Decisions on Abolishing the Provisional Regulations of the PRC on Business Tax and Amending the Provisional Regulations of the PRC on Value-added Tax, or Order 691. According to the VAT Law and Order 691, all enterprises and individuals engaged in the sale of goods, the provision of processing, repair and replacement services, sales of services, intangible assets, real property and the importation of goods within the territory of the PRC are the taxpayers of VAT. The VAT tax rates generally applicable are simplified as 17%, 11%, 6% and 0%, and the VAT tax rate applicable to the small-scale taxpayers is 3%.

   

Dividend Withholding Tax

 

The EIT Law provides that since January 1, 2008, an income tax rate of 10% will normally be applicable to dividends declared to non-PRC resident investors which do not have an establishment or place of business in the PRC, or which have such establishment or place of business but the relevant income is not effectively connected with the establishment or place of business, to the extent such dividends are derived from sources within the PRC.

 

Pursuant to an Arrangement Between the Mainland of China and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with Respect to Taxes on Incomes , or the Double Tax Avoidance Arrangement, and other applicable PRC laws, if a Hong Kong resident enterprise is determined by the competent PRC tax authority to have satisfied the relevant conditions and requirements under such Double Tax Avoidance Arrangement and other applicable laws, the 10% withholding tax on the dividends the Hong Kong resident enterprise receives from a PRC resident enterprise may be reduced to 5%. However, based on the Circular on Certain Issues with Respect to the Enforcement of Dividend Provisions in Tax Treaties , or the SAT Circular 81, issued on February 20, 2009 by the s, if the relevant PRC tax authorities determine, in their discretion, that a company benefits from such reduced income tax rate due to a structure or arrangement that is primarily tax-driven, such PRC tax authorities may adjust the preferential tax treatment. According to the Circular on Several Questions regarding the “Beneficial Owner” in Tax Treaties , which was issued on February 3, 2018 by the SAT and became effect on April 1, 2018, when determining the applicant’s status of the “beneficial owner” regarding tax treatments in connection with dividends, interests or royalties in the tax treaties, several factors, including without limitation, whether the applicant is obligated to pay more than 50% of his or her income in twelve months to residents in third country or region, whether the business operated by the applicant constitutes the actual business activities, and whether the counterparty country or region to the tax treaties does not levy any tax or grant tax exemption on relevant incomes or levy tax at an extremely low rate, will be taken into account, and it will be analyzed according to the actual circumstances of the specific cases. This circular further provides that applicants who intend to prove his or her status of the “beneficial owner” shall submit the relevant documents to the relevant tax bureau according to the Announcement on Issuing the Measures for the Administration of Non-Resident Taxpayers’ Enjoyment of the Treatment under Tax Agreements .

  

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Tax on Indirect Transfer

 

On February 3, 2015, the SAT issued the Circular on Issues of Enterprise Income Tax on Indirect Transfers of Assets by Non-PRC Resident Enterprises, or Circular 7. Pursuant to Circular 7, an “indirect transfer” of assets, including equity interests in a PRC resident enterprise, by non-PRC resident enterprises, may be recharacterized and treated as a direct transfer of PRC taxable assets, if such arrangement does not have a reasonable commercial purpose and was established for the purpose of avoiding payment of PRC enterprise income tax. As a result, gains derived from such indirect transfer may be subject to PRC enterprise income tax. When determining whether there is a “reasonable commercial purpose” of the transaction arrangement, features to be taken into consideration include, inter alia, whether the main value of the equity interest of the relevant offshore enterprise derives directly or indirectly from PRC taxable assets; whether the assets of the relevant offshore enterprise mainly consists of direct or indirect investment in China or if its income is mainly derived from China; and whether the offshore enterprise and its subsidiaries directly or indirectly holding PRC taxable assets have real commercial nature which is evidenced by their actual function and risk exposure. According to Circular 7, where the payor fails to withhold any or sufficient tax, the transferor shall declare and pay such tax to the tax authority by itself within the statutory time limit. Late payment of applicable tax will subject the transferor to default interest. Circular 7 does not apply to transactions of sale of shares by investors through a public stock exchange where such shares were acquired on a public stock exchange. On October 17, 2017, the SAT issued the Circular on Issues of Tax Withholding regarding Non-PRC Resident Enterprise Income Tax , or SAT Circular 37, which further elaborates the relevant implemental rules regarding the calculation, reporting and payment obligations of the withholding tax by the non-resident enterprises.

 

Regulations on Employment and Social Welfare

 

Labor Contract Law

 

The Labor Contract Law of the PRC , or the Labor Contract Law, which was promulgated on January 1, 2008 and amended on December 28, 2012, is primarily aimed at regulating rights and obligations of employer and employee relationships, including the establishment, performance and termination of labor contracts. Pursuant to the Labor Contract Law, labor contracts shall be concluded in writing if labor relationships are to be or have been established between employers and the employees. Employers are prohibited from forcing employees to work above certain time limit and employers shall pay employees for overtime work in accordance to national regulations. In addition, employee wages shall be no lower than local standards on minimum wages and shall be paid to employees timely.

   

Social Insurance and Housing Fund

 

As required under the Regulation of Insurance for Labor Injury implemented on January 1, 2004 and amended in 2010, the Provisional Measures for Maternity Insurance of Employees of Corporations implemented on January 1, 1995, the Decisions on the Establishment of a Unified Program for Old-Aged Pension Insurance of the State Council issued on July 16, 1997, the Decisions on the Establishment of the Medical Insurance Program for Urban Workers of the State Council promulgated on December 14, 1998, the Unemployment Insurance Measures promulgated on January 22, 1999 and the Social Insurance Law of the PRC implemented on July 1, 2011, employers are required to provide their employees in the PRC with welfare benefits covering pension insurance, unemployment insurance, maternity insurance, labor injury insurance and medical insurance.

 

In accordance with the Regulations on the Management of Housing Fund which was promulgated by the State Council in 1999 and amended in 2002, employers must register at the designated administrative centers and open bank accounts for depositing employees’ housing funds. Employer and employee are also required to pay and deposit housing funds, with an amount no less than 5% of the monthly average salary of the employee in the preceding year in full and on time.

 

M&A Rules and Overseas Listing

 

On August 8, 2006, six PRC governmental and regulatory agencies, including MOFCOM and the China Securities Regulatory Commission, or the CSRC, promulgated the Rules on Acquisition of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors , or the M&A Rules, governing the mergers and acquisitions of domestic enterprises by foreign investors that became effective on September 8, 2006 and was revised on June 22, 2009. The M&A Rules, among other things, requires that if an overseas company established or controlled by PRC companies or individuals, or PRC Citizens, intends to acquire equity interests or assets of any other PRC domestic company affiliated with the PRC Citizens, such acquisition must be submitted to the MOFCOM for approval. The M&A Rules also requires that an offshore special purpose vehicle formed for overseas listing purposes and controlled directly or indirectly by the PRC Citizens shall obtain the approval of the CSRC prior to overseas listing and trading of such special purpose vehicle’s securities on an overseas stock exchange.

  

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MANAGEMENT

 

Set forth below is information concerning our directors, executive officers and other key employees. The following individuals are members of the Board and executive management of the Registrant.

 

Name   Age   Position(s)
Shenping Yin   49   Chairman of the Board
Xiaoyang Huang   49   Chief Executive Officer and Director
Tianyu Xia   29   Chief Financial Officer
Bo Shi   44   Chief Technology Officer
Wenhua Yang   50   Independent Director
Jianben Song   60   Independent Director
Jianzhong Lin   58   Independent Director

 

Mr. Shenping Yin has been our Chairman since our inception. Mr. Yin has been the Chief Executive Officer and a director of Recon Technology, Ltd. (NASDAQ: RCON) since 2007. In 2003, Mr. Yin founded Nanjing Recon, a Chinese company that provides services to automate and enhance the extraction of petroleum in China, and has been the Chief Executive Officer since that time. Mr. Yin has founded and operated a number of companies engaged in the IT industry including: Xiamen Hengda Haitian Computer Network Co., Ltd. (1994), Baotou Hengda Haitian Computer Network Co., Ltd. (1997) and Beijing Jingke Haitian Electronic Technology Development Co., Ltd. (1999), and Jingsu Huasheng Information Technology Co., Ltd. (2000). Mr. Yin received his bachelor’s degree in 1991 from Nanjing Agricultural University in Information Systems.  

 

Ms. Xiaoyang Huang has been our CEO since our inception. She has been the Chief Executive Director of HiTek, our VIE entity since 2000. Ms. Huang graduated from Nanjing Agricultural University and majored in Agricultural Information. She also went through a one-year accounting program in Renmin University of China from 2010 to 2011.

 

Ms. Tianyu Xia has been our CFO since August 15, 2018. From April 2014 to December 2015, she worked as an Investor Relations Manager at Recon Technology Ltd. From December 2015 to October 2017, she worked as an Investor Relations Manager at Smartisan Technology Co., Ltd. Ms. Xia graduated from Saint Louis University, John Cook School of Business in 2012 and received her bachelor’s degree in Accounting. She also minored in Information Technology Management. Ms. Xia received her Master degree in Investor Relations from Fordham University, Graduate School of Business in 2013. She received her Master in Business Administration from Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in 2018.

 

Mr. Bo Shi has been our CTO since our inception. From July 1996 to March 1998, he worked as a maintenance engineer at Xiamen Automotive Friction and Sealing Material Co., Ltd. He has been working for HiTek since March 1998 and has undertaken various responsibilities such as maintenance engineer, technical manager, technical director, deputy general manager and general manager. He is now the general manager of HiTek. Mr. Shi graduated from Wuhan University of Technology (formerly known as “Wuhan Automotive University”) in July 1996, with a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Application.

 

Mr. Wenhua Yang will be appointed as our independent director upon closing of this offering. He was the Vice President of Beijing Huaxia Bank, Guanghua Road Branch from July 2002 to May 2004. From June 2004 to September 2006, he served as the Vice President of Beijing Guangda Bank, Guanghua Road Branch. From April 2006 to date, he served as the general manager of Beijing Nengju Trading Development Co., Ltd. He has worked for 15 years in the banking and business industries. Mr. Yang holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and a Master’s Degree in Business Management at Capital University of Economics and Business.

 

Mr. Jianben Song will be appointed as our independent director upon closing of this offering. He was the data architect of HiTek, our VIE entity since February 2013. From November 2010 to January 2013, he worked as a data architect for Bank of America, where he was responsible for designing databases. He has extensive experience in software engineering. Mr. Song graduated from Tsinghua University with a Bachelor’s degree in physics. He holds a Master’s degree in biophysics from the Institute of Biophysics, Academia China. He holds a Ph.D. in biophysics at the University of Rochester, New York.

 

Mr. Jianzhong Lin will be appointed as our independent director upon closing of this offering. He has been the IT manager of Linde (China) Forklift Truck Corp., Ltd. since March, 1994. He has ample knowledge and experience in IT infrastructure. Mr. Lin graduated from Fudan University with a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Mechanics.

 

Family Relationships

 

None of the directors or executive officers has a family relationship as defined in Item 401 of Regulation S-K except that Mr. Yin and Ms. Huang are husband and wife.

 

Involvement in Certain Legal Proceedings

 

To the best of our knowledge, none of our directors or executive officers has, during the past ten years, been involved in any legal proceedings described in subparagraph (f) of Item 401 of Regulation S-K.

  

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Director Independence

 

Our Board of Directors has determined that we currently do not have any independent director as that term is defined in the listing standards of the Nasdaq Capital Market. We intend to appoint independent directors upon initial closing of this offering as required by the listing standard of Nasdaq Capital Market.

 

Duties of Directors

 

Under Cayman Islands law, directors and officers owe the following fiduciary duties:

 

(i) duty to act in good faith in what the director believes to be in the best interests of the company as a whole;

 

(ii) duty to exercise powers for the purposes for which those powers were conferred and not for a collateral purpose;

 

(iii) directors should not properly fetter the exercise of future discretion;

 

(iv) duty not to put themselves in a position in which there is a conflict between their duty to the company and their personal interests; and

 

(v) duty to exercise independent judgment.

 

In addition to the above, directors also owe a duty of care which is not fiduciary in nature. This duty has been defined as a requirement to act as a reasonably diligent person having both the general knowledge, skill and experience that may reasonably be expected of a person carrying out the same functions as are carried out by that director in relation to the company and the general knowledge skill and experience which that director has.

 

As set out above, directors have a duty not to put themselves in a position of conflict and this includes a duty not to engage in self-dealing, or to otherwise benefit as a result of their position. However, in some instances what would otherwise be a breach of this duty can be forgiven and/or authorized in advance by the shareholders provided that there is full disclosure by the directors. This can be done by way of permission granted in the memorandum and articles of association or alternatively by shareholder approval at general meetings.

 

Terms of Directors and Executive Officers

 

Each of our directors holds office until a successor has been duly elected and qualified unless the director was appointed by the board of directors, in which case such director holds office until the next following annual meeting of shareholders at which time such director is eligible for reelection. All of our executive officers are appointed by and serve at the discretion of our board of directors. There is currently no shareholding qualification for directors.

 

Insider Participation Concerning Executive Compensation

 

The Board of Directors of the Registrant, which includes Chairman of the Board, Mr. Shenping Yin will be making all determinations regarding executive officer compensation. The Registrant first started hiring executives in [●].

 

Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, and Nominating Committee and Corporate Governance Committee

 

We will establish three committees under the board of directors immediately upon closing of this offering: an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee and a Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Even though we are exempted from corporate governance standards because we are a Foreign Private Issuer (“FPI”), we have voluntarily adopted a charter for each of the three committees. Each committee’s members and functions are described below.

 

Audit Committee .  Our audit committee will consist of Mr. Wenhua Yang, Mr. Jianben Song and Mr. Jianzhong Lin. Mr. Wenhua Yang will be the chairman of our audit committee. We have determined that Mr. Yang, Mr. Song and Mr. Lin will satisfy the “independence” requirements of Section 5605(a)(2) of the Nasdaq Listing Rules and Rule 10A-3 under the Securities Exchange Act. Our board also has determined that Mr. Yang qualifies as an audit committee financial expert within the meaning of the SEC rules or possesses financial sophistication within the meaning of the Nasdaq Listing Rules. The audit committee will oversee our accounting and financial reporting processes and the audits of the financial statements of our company. The audit committee will be responsible for, among other things:

 

  appointing the independent auditors and pre-approving all auditing and non-auditing services permitted to be performed by the independent auditors;

 

  reviewing with the independent auditors any audit problems or difficulties and management’s response;

 

  discussing the annual audited financial statements with management and the independent auditors;

 

  reviewing the adequacy and effectiveness of our accounting and internal control policies and procedures and any steps taken to monitor and control major financial risk exposures;

 

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  reviewing and approving all proposed related party transactions;

 

  meeting separately and periodically with management and the independent auditors; and

 

  monitoring compliance with our code of business conduct and ethics, including reviewing the adequacy and effectiveness of our procedures to ensure proper compliance.

 

Compensation Committee.   Our compensation committee will consist of Mr. Wenhua Yang, Mr. Jianben Song and Mr. Jianzhong Lin upon the effectiveness of their appointments. Mr. Jianzhong Lin will be the chairman of our compensation committee. We have determined that Mr. Yang, Mr. Song and Mr. Lin will satisfy the “independence” requirements of Section 5605(a)(2) of the NASDAQ Listing Rules and Rule 10A-3 under the Securities Exchange Act. The compensation committee will assist the board in reviewing and approving the compensation structure, including all forms of compensation, relating to our directors and executive officers. Our chief executive officer may not be present at any committee meeting during which his compensation is deliberated. The compensation committee will be responsible for, among other things:

 

  reviewing and approving to the board with respect to the total compensation package for our most senior executive officers;
     
  approving and overseeing the total compensation package for our executives other than the most senior executive officers;

 

  reviewing and recommending to the board with respect to the compensation of our directors;

 

  reviewing periodically and approving any long-term incentive compensation or equity plans;

 

  selecting compensation consultants, legal counsel or other advisors after taking into consideration all factors relevant to that person’s independence from management; and

 

  programs or similar arrangements, annual bonuses, employee pension and welfare benefit plans.

 

Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.   Our nominating and corporate governance committee currently consists of will consist of Mr. Wenhua Yang, Mr. Jianben Song and Mr. Jianzhong Lin upon the effectiveness of their appointments. Mr. Jianben Song will be the chairperson of our nominating and corporate governance committee. Mr. Yang, Mr. Song and Mr. Lin satisfy the “independence” requirements of Section 5605(a)(2) of the NASDAQ Listing Rules and Rule 10A-3 under the Securities Exchange Act. The nominating and corporate governance committee will assist the board of directors in selecting individuals qualified to become our directors and in determining the composition of the board and its committees. The nominating and corporate governance committee will be responsible for, among other things:

 

  identifying and recommending nominees for election or re-election to our board of directors or for appointment to fill any vacancy;

 

  reviewing annually with our board of directors its current composition in light of the characteristics of independence, age, skills, experience and availability of service to us;

 

  identifying and recommending to our board the directors to serve as members of committees;

 

  advising the board periodically with respect to significant developments in the law and practice of corporate governance as well as our compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and making recommendations to our board of directors on all matters of corporate governance and on any corrective action to be taken; and

 

  monitoring compliance with our code of business conduct and ethics, including reviewing the adequacy and effectiveness of our procedures to ensure proper compliance.

 

Corporate Governance

 

Our board of directors has adopted a code of business conduct and ethics, which is applicable to all of our directors, officers and employees. We will make our code of business conduct and ethics publicly available on our website prior to the initial closing of this offering.

  

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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

 

Summary Compensation Table

 

The following table sets forth certain information with respect to compensation for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 earned by or paid to our chief executive officer and principal executive officer, our principal financial officer, and our other most highly compensated executive officers in 2017 whose total compensation exceeded $100,000 (the “named executive officers”).

 

Summary Compensation Table

 

Name and Principal Position   Year   Salary
($)
    Bonus
($)
    Share Awards
($)
    Option Awards
($)
    Non-Equity Incentive Plan
Compensation
    Deferred Compensation Earnings     Other     Total
($)
 
Xiaoyang Huang   2017     10,059       36,983       0       0       0       0       0       47,042  
Chief Executive Officer of HiTek   2016     9,183       39,134       0       0       0       0       0       48,317  
                                                                     
Bo Shi   2017     13,166       27,367       0       0       0       0       0       40,533  
Chief Technology Officer of HiTek   2016     12,630       27,092       0       0       0       0       0       39,722  

 

Agreements with Named Executive Officers

 

We entered into employment agreements with our CEO and CTO on July 1, 2018, and with our CFO on September 2, 2018. Each of our executive officers is employed for a specified time period, which will be renewed upon both parties’ agreement thirty days before the end of the current employment term. We may terminate the employment for cause, at any time, without notice or remuneration, for certain acts of the executive officer, including but not limited to the commitments of any serious or persistent breach or non-observance of the terms and conditions of the employment, conviction of a criminal offense, willful disobedience of a lawful and reasonable order, fraud or dishonesty, receipt of bribery, or severe neglect of his or her duties. An executive officer may terminate his or her employment at any time with a one-month prior written notice. Each executive officer has agreed to hold, both during and after the employment agreement expires, in strict confidence and not to use or disclose to any person, corporation or other entity without written consent, any confidential information. In addition, each executive officer has agreed to be bound by non-competition and non-solicitation restrictions during the term of his employment and for one year following termination of the employment.

 

Our employment agreement with Xiaoyang Huang, our CEO, provides her term of one year with an annual salary of $70,000.

 

Our employment agreement with Bo Shi, our CTO, provides his term of one year with an annual salary of $50,000.

 

Our employment agreement with Tianyu Xia, our CFO, provides her term of three years with an annual salary of $60,000.

   

Compensation of Directors

 

For the fiscal years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, we did not compensate our directors for their services other than to reimburse them for out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with their attendance at meetings of the Board of Directors.

   

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PRINCIPAL SHAREHOLDERS

 

The following table sets forth information with respect to the beneficial ownership, within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, of our Class A Ordinary Shares as of the date of this prospectus, and as adjusted to reflect the sale of the Class A Ordinary Shares offered in this offering for

 

each of our directors and executive officers who beneficially own our Class A Ordinary Shares; and

 

each person known to us to own beneficially more than 5.0% of our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

Beneficial ownership includes voting or investment power with respect to the securities. Except as indicated below, and subject to applicable community property laws, the persons named in the table have sole voting and investment power with respect to all Class A Ordinary Shares shown as beneficially owned by them. Percentage of beneficial ownership of each listed person prior to this offering is based on 10,987,679 Class A Ordinary Shares outstanding as of the date of this prospectus. Percentage of beneficial ownership of each listed person after this offering includes [●] Class A Ordinary Shares outstanding immediately after the completion of this offering.

 

    Class A Ordinary Shares
Beneficially Owned
Prior to this Offering
    Class A Ordinary Shares
Beneficially Owned
After this Offering
    Percentage of Votes Held
After this
Offering
 
    Number     Percent     Number     Percent     Percent  
Directors and Executive Officers:                              
Shenping Yin     8,192,000 (1)(2)     74.5 %                             
Xiaoyang Huang     8,192,000 (1)(2)     74.5 %                        
Wenhua Yang     -                                  
Jianben Song     -                                  
Jianzhong Lin     -                                  
5% Shareholders:                                        
Shenping Yin     8,192,000 (1)(2)     74.5 %                        
Xiaoyang Huang     8,192,000 (1)(2)     74.5 %                        

 

(1) These shares are Class B Ordinary Shares and are deemed as beneficially owned by Shenping Yin and Xiaoyang Huang as they are husband and wife.
   
(2) These shares are held by Fortune Enterprise Holdings Limited, a British Virgin Islands company. Since Mr. Yin and Ms. Huang are the shareholders and directors of Fortune Enterprise Holdings Limited, they are deemed as the beneficial owners of these securities.

 

History of Share Capital

 

We were incorporated in the Cayman Islands as an exempted company with limited liability on November 3, 2017.

 

As of the date of this prospectus, our authorized share capital consists of US$50,000 divided into 500,000,000 ordinary shares, par value US$0.0001 per share. Holders of Ordinary Shares are entitled to one vote per share. Upon adoption of the amended Memorandum and Articles of Association, the authorized capital will consist of 400,000,000 Class A and 90,000,000 Class B ordinary shares, and 10,000,000 preference shares.

 

On November 3, 2017 and December 16, 2017, the Company issued an aggregate of 10,987,679 ordinary shares to Fortune Enterprise Holdings Limited, Star Discover Global Limited, Oriental Xinhe Holdings Limited, Luotec Information Limited, Lintec Information Limited, Tians Technology Limited, Centurion Tech Holdings Limited, Eternal Blessing Holdings Limited and Circatrade Universal Holdings Limited as inducements for them to enter into the VIE Agreements pursuant to which the Company shall obtain absolute control rights and the rights to the assets, property and revenue of HiTek. The issuance was conducted in private transactions under Cayman Islands laws.

 

As of the date of this prospectus, none of our outstanding Ordinary Share is held by record holders in the United States.

 

We are not aware of any arrangement that may, at a subsequent date, result in a change of control of our company.

  

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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

Upon completion of this offering, assuming the underwriter does not exercise their over-allotment option to purchase additional Class A Ordinary Shares, Mr. Yin and Ms. Huang will hold [●]% of the combined total of our outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares. If the underwriter exercises their over-allotment option to purchase additional Class A Ordinary Shares in full, upon completion of this offering, Mr. Yin and Ms. Huang will hold [●]% of the combined total of our outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares. Following the completion of this offering, Mr. Yin and Ms. Huang will continue to have the power to act alone in approving any action requiring a vote of the majority of our Class A Ordinary Shares and to elect all of our directors.

 

Contractual Arrangements with WFOE, HiTek and Its Shareholders

 

To comply with PRC laws restricting foreign ownership in the IT business in China, we conduct our IT business through HiTek, a VIE entity that we control through a series of contractual arrangements between our PRC subsidiary WFOE, HiTek and its shareholders, Xiaoyang Huang, Shenping Yin, Bo Shi, Zhishuang Wang, Liuqing Huang, Jingru Li, Mian Tang, Ce Tian, Xianfeng Lin, Inner Mongolia Guangxin Investment Co., Ltd. and Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd. Such contractual arrangements provide us (i) the power over HiTek, (ii) the exposure or rights to variable returns from our involvement with HiTek, and (iii) the ability to affect those returns through use of our power over HiTek to affect the amount of our returns. Therefore, we control HiTek. For a description of these contractual arrangements, see “Business — Our History and Corporate Structure”.

 

Payment of Dividend

 

See “Dividend Policy”.

 

Material Transactions with Related Parties  

 

Advances and Loans from Related Parties

 

As of June 30, 2018, outstanding advances that the Company owed to Fengqi (Beijing) Zhineng Technology Co., Ltd., 5% owned by HiTek’s Chairman Mr. Shenping Yin, in the amount $388. Both advances are due on demand and non-interest bearing.

 

As of December 31, 2017, outstanding advances that the Company owed to Mr. Shenping Yin, HiTek’s Chairman, was $155,376 and was fully repaid as of June 30, 2018. Company also has outstanding advances owed to Fengqi (Beijing) Zhineng Technology Co., Ltd., 5% owned by HiTek’s Chairman Mr. Shenping Yin, in the amount $13,009. Both advances are due on demand and non-interest bearing.

 

As of December 31, 2016, outstanding advances that the Company owed to Mr. Shenping Yin, HiTek’s Chairman, was $655,176. The advances are due on demand and non-interest bearing.

 

Advances to Related Parties

 

As of December 31, 2017, Beijing Longchen Building Decoration Engineering Company Limited, an entity that is 80% owned by Mr. Shenrui Yin, who is the brother of HiTek’s Chairman, Shenping Yin, had owed the Company in the aggregate, approximately $215,173. The advances made by the Company were due on demand and non-interest bearing.

 

As of December 31, 2016, Beijing Longchen Building Decoration Engineering Company Limited had owed the Company in the aggregate, approximately $113,754. The advances are due on demand and non-interest bearing.

 

All these advances and loans have been fully repaid by April 27, 2018.

 

Sales revenues from related parties

 

The Company generated sales revenues from Fengqi (Beijing) Zhineng Technology Co., Ltd., an entity in which Mr. Yin is the director and a minority shareholder, in hardware sales of $0 for the six months ended June 30, 2018, and $80,944 and $215,683 for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016.

 

The Company generated sales revenues from Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd., which is a minority shareholder of HiTek, in hardware sales of $0 for the three ended June 30, 2018 and $366,879 for the years ended December 31, 2017.

 

The Company generated sales revenues from Beijing Zhongzhe Yuantong Technology Co., Ltd. in hardware sales of $369,906 for six months ended June 30, 2018 and $26,672 and $633,855 for the year ended December 31, 2017 and 2016; and software sales of $129,990 for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and $285,821 and $50,276 for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016.

 

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Accounts receivables from related parties

 

As of June 30, 2018, accounts receivable from Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd., an entity that owns 2.16% of HiTek, is $395,099. Accounts receivable from Fengqi (Beijing) Zhineng Technology Co., Ltd., an entity that is 5% owned by Mr. Shenping Yin, is $0. Accounts receivable from Beijing Zhongzhe Yuantong Technology Co., Ltd. is $918,697.

 

As of December 31, 2017, accounts receivable from Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd., an entity that owns 2.16% of HiTek, is $440,366. Accounts receivable from Fengqi (Beijing) Zhineng Technology Co., Ltd., an entity that is 5% owned by Mr. Shenping Yin, is $89,143. Accounts receivable from Beijing Zhongzhe Yuantong Technology Co., Ltd. is $363,576.

 

As of December 31, 2016, accounts receivable from Fengqi (Beijing) Zhineng Technology Co., Ltd is $241,130. Accounts receivable from Beijing Zhongzhe Yuantong Technology Co., Ltd. is $698,882.

 

Employment Agreements

 

See “Management — Employment Agreements”.

 

DESCRIPTION OF SHARE CAPITAL

 

We are a Cayman Islands company and our affairs are governed by our memorandum and articles of association and the Companies Law (2018 Revision) of the Cayman Islands, which we refer to as the Companies Law below.

 

As of the date of this prospectus, our authorized share capital consists of US$50,000 divided into 500,000,000 ordinary shares, par value US$0.0001 per share. Upon filing of the amended Memorandum and Articles of Association with Cayman company registry, the authorized capital will consist of 400,000,000 Class A and 90,000,000 Class B ordinary shares, and 10,000,000 preference shares

 

We have conditionally adopted our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, which will become effective immediately prior to the completion of this offering and will replace our current amended and restated memorandum and articles of association in its entirety. Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, or our post-offering amended and restated memorandum and articles of association provide that, immediately prior to the completion of this offering, we will have two classes of shares, the Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares. Our authorized share capital upon completion of the offering will be $50,000 divided into 500,000,000 shares of a par value of $0.0001, comprised of (1) 400,000,000 Class A Ordinary Shares, (2) 90,000,000 Class B Ordinary Shares and (3) 10,000,000 preference shares. Our directors may, in their absolute discretion and without the approval of our shareholders, create and designate out of the unissued preference shares of our company one or more classes or series of preference shares, comprising such number of preference shares, and having such designations, powers, preferences, privileges and other rights, including dividend rights, voting rights, conversion rights, terms of redemption and liquidation preferences, as our directors may determine. Immediately upon the completion of this offering and assuming the minimum offering, we will have [●] Class A Ordinary Shares and [●] Class B Ordinary Shares issued and outstanding. Assuming the maximum offering and no exercise of the over-subscription option, we will have [●] Class A Ordinary Shares and [●] Class B Ordinary Shares issued and outstanding. In the event the Underwriter exercises its over-subscription option, we will have [●] Class A Ordinary Shares and [●] Class B Ordinary Shares issued and outstanding. We will issue Class A Ordinary Shares in this offering. The following are summaries of material provisions of our proposed post-offering memorandum and articles of association and the Companies Law insofar as they relate to the material terms of our ordinary shares that we expect will become effective upon the completion of this offering.

 

Ordinary shares

 

Dividends.   Subject to any rights and restrictions of any other class or series of shares, our board of directors may, from time to time, declare dividends on the shares issued and authorize payment of the dividends out of our lawfully available funds. No dividends shall be declared by the board out of our company except the following: 

 

  profits; or
     
  “share premium account,” which represents the excess of the price paid to our company on issue of its shares over the par or “nominal” value of those shares, which is similar to the U.S. concept of additional paid in capital.

 

However, no dividend shall bear interest against the Company.

 

Classes of Class A Ordinary Shares.  Our ordinary shares are divided into Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares. Except for conversion rights and voting rights, the Class A Ordinary Shares and Class B Ordinary Shares shall carry equal rights and rank pari passu with one another, including but not limited to the rights to dividends and other capital distributions.

 

Each Class B ordinary share is convertible into one Class A ordinary share at any time by the holder thereof. In addition, (i) each Class B ordinary share shall automatically and immediately be converted into one Class A ordinary share if at any time the total number of the issued and outstanding Class B Ordinary Shares is less than 5% of the total number of ordinary shares of our company issued and outstanding immediately following this offering, and (ii) upon any sale, transfer, assignment or disposition of Class B Ordinary Shares by a holder thereof to any person or entity which is not an Affiliate (as defined in our post-offering amended and restated memorandum and articles of association) of such holder, such Class B Ordinary Shares shall be automatically and immediately converted into an equal number of Class A Ordinary Shares. Class A Ordinary Shares are not convertible into Class B Ordinary Shares under any circumstances.

  

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Voting Rights.   Holders of our ordinary shares vote as a single class on all matters submitted to a vote of our shareholders, except as may otherwise be required by law. In respect of matters requiring shareholders’ vote, each Class A ordinary share is entitled to one vote and each Class B ordinary share is entitled to ten (10) votes. At any general meeting a resolution put to the vote of the meeting shall be decided by poll.

 

Any ordinary resolution to be made by the shareholders requires the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the votes of the ordinary shares cast in a general meeting, while a special resolution requires the affirmative vote of no less than two-thirds of the votes of the ordinary shares cast.

 

Under Cayman Islands law, some matters, such as amending the memorandum and articles of association, changing the name or resolving to be registered by way of continuation in a jurisdiction outside the Cayman Islands, require approval of shareholders by a special resolution.

 

There are no limitations on non-residents or foreign shareholders in the memorandum and articles of association to hold or exercise voting rights on the ordinary shares imposed by foreign law or by the charter or other constituent document of our company. However, no person will be entitled to vote at any general meeting or at any separate meeting of the holders of the ordinary shares unless the person is registered as of the record date for such meeting and unless all calls or other sums presently payable by the person in respect of ordinary shares in the Company have been paid.

 

Winding Up; Liquidation.   Upon the winding up of our company, after the full amount that holders of any issued shares ranking senior to the ordinary shares as to distribution on liquidation or winding up are entitled to receive has been paid or set aside for payment, the holders of our ordinary shares are entitled to receive any remaining assets of the Company available for distribution as determined by the liquidator. The assets received by the holders of our ordinary shares in a liquidation may consist in whole or in part of property, which is not required to be of the same kind for all shareholders.

 

Calls on Class A Ordinary Shares and Forfeiture of Class A Ordinary Shares.   Our board of directors may from time to time make calls upon shareholders for any amounts unpaid on their ordinary shares in a notice served to such shareholders at least 14 days prior to the specified time and place of payment. Any ordinary shares that have been called upon and remain unpaid are subject to forfeiture.

 

Redemption of Class A Ordinary Shares.   We may issue shares that are, or at its option or at the option of the holders are, subject to redemption on such terms and in such manner as it may, before the issue of the shares, determine. Under the Companies Law, shares of a Cayman Islands company may be redeemed or repurchased out of profits of the company, out of the proceeds of a fresh issue of shares made for that purpose or out of capital, provided the memorandum and articles of association authorize this and it has the ability to pay its debts as they come due in the ordinary course of business.

 

No Preemptive Rights.   Holders of ordinary shares will have no preemptive or preferential right to purchase any securities of our company.

 

Variation of Rights Attaching to Shares.   If at any time the share capital is divided into different classes of shares, the rights attaching to any class (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class) may, subject to the memorandum and articles of association, be varied or abrogated with the consent in writing of the holders of three-fourth of the issued shares of that class or with the sanction of a special resolution passed at a general meeting of the holders of the shares of that class.

 

Anti-Takeover Provisions.  Some provisions of our current memorandum and articles of association may discourage, delay or prevent a change of control of our company or management that shareholders may consider favorable, including provisions that authorize our board of directors to issue preference shares in one or more series and to designate the price, rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions of such preference shares without any further vote or action by our shareholders.

  

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Exempted Company.  We are an exempted company with limited liability under the Companies Law. The Companies Law distinguishes between ordinary resident companies and exempted companies. Any company that is registered in the Cayman Islands but conducts business mainly outside of the Cayman Islands may apply to be registered as an exempted company. The requirements for an exempted company are essentially the same as for an ordinary company except that an exempted company:

 

  does not have to file an annual return of its shareholders with the Registrar of Companies;
     
  is not required to open its register of members for inspection;
     
  does not have to hold an annual general meeting;
     
  may issue shares with no par value;
     
  may obtain an undertaking against the imposition of any future taxation (such undertakings are usually given for 20 years in the first instance);
     
  may register by way of continuation in another jurisdiction and be deregistered in the Cayman Islands;
     
  may register as a limited duration company; and
     
  may register as a segregated portfolio company.

 

“Limited liability” means that the liability of each shareholder is limited to the amount unpaid by the shareholder on the shares of the company.

 

Register of Members

 

Under Cayman Islands law, we must keep a register of members and there shall be entered therein:

 

(a) the names and addresses of the members, a statement of the shares held by each member, and of the amount paid or agreed to be considered as paid, on the shares of each member;

 

(b) the date on which the name of any person was entered on the register as a member; and

 

(c) the date on which any person ceased to be a member.

 

Under Cayman Islands law, the register of members of our company is prima facie evidence of the matters set out therein (i.e. the register of members will raise a presumption of fact on the matters referred to above unless rebutted) and a member registered in the register of members shall be deemed as a matter of Cayman Islands law to have legal title to the shares as set against its name in the register of members. Upon the closing of this public offering, the register of members shall be immediately updated to reflect the issue of shares by us. Once our register of members has been updated, the shareholders recorded in the register of members shall be deemed to have legal title to the shares set against their name.

 

However, there are certain limited circumstances where an application may be made to a Cayman Islands court for a determination on whether the register of members reflects the correct legal position. Further, the Cayman Islands court has the power to order that the register of members maintained by a company should be rectified where it considers that the register of members does not reflect the correct legal position. If an application for an order for rectification of the register of members were made in respect of our ordinary shares, then the validity of such shares may be subject to re-examination by a Cayman Islands court.

 

Preference shares

 

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association authorizes the issuance of 10,000,000 preference shares with such designation, rights and preferences as may be determined from time to time by our board of directors. No preference shares are being issued or registered in this offering. Accordingly, our board of directors is empowered, without shareholder approval, to issue preference shares with dividend, liquidation, redemption, voting or other rights which could adversely affect the voting power or other rights of the holders of ordinary shares. However, the underwriting agreement prohibits us, prior to a business combination, from issuing preference shares which participate in any manner in the proceeds of the trust account, or which votes as a class with the ordinary shares on a business combination. We may issue some or all of the preference shares to effect a business combination. In addition, the preference shares could be utilized as a method of discouraging, delaying or preventing a change in control of us. Although we do not currently intend to issue any preference shares, we cannot assure you that we will not do so in the future.

  

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Warrants

 

There are no outstanding warrants to purchase any of our securities.

 

Options

 

There are no outstanding options to purchase any of our securities.

 

Certain Differences in Corporate Law

 

Cayman Islands companies are governed by the Companies Law. The Companies Law is modeled on English Law but does not follow recent English Law statutory enactments, and differs from laws applicable to United States corporations and their shareholders. Set forth below is a summary of the material differences between the provisions of the Companies Law applicable to us and the laws applicable to companies incorporated in the United States and their shareholders.

 

Mergers and Similar Arrangements.

 

In certain circumstances, the Companies Law allows for mergers or consolidations between two Cayman Islands companies, or between a Cayman Islands company and a company incorporated in another jurisdiction (provided that is facilitated by the laws of that other jurisdiction).

 

Where the merger or consolidation is between two Cayman Islands companies, the directors of each company must approve a written plan of merger or consolidation containing certain prescribed information. That plan or merger or consolidation must then be authorized by either (a) a special resolution (usually a majority of 66.6% in value) of the shareholders of each company; or (b) such other authorization, if any, as may be specified in such constituent company’s articles of association. No shareholder resolution is required for a merger between a parent company (i.e., a company that owns at least 90% of the issued shares of each class in a subsidiary company) and its subsidiary company. The consent of each holder of a fixed or floating security interest of a constituent company must be obtained, unless the court waives such requirement. If the Cayman Islands Registrar of Companies is satisfied that the requirements of the Companies Law (which includes certain other formalities) have been complied with, the Registrar of Companies will register the plan of merger or consolidation.

 

Where the merger or consolidation involves a foreign company, the procedure is similar, save that with respect to the foreign company, the director of the Cayman Islands company is required to make a declaration to the effect that, having made due enquiry, he is of the opinion that the requirements set out below have been met: (i) that the merger or consolidation is permitted or not prohibited by the constitutional documents of the foreign company and by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the foreign company is incorporated, and that those laws and any requirements of those constitutional documents have been or will be complied with; (ii) that no petition or other similar proceeding has been filed and remains outstanding or order made or resolution adopted to wind up or liquidate the foreign company in any jurisdictions; (iii) that no receiver, trustee, administrator or other similar person has been appointed in any jurisdiction and is acting in respect of the foreign company, its affairs or its property or any part thereof; (iv) that no scheme, order, compromise or other similar arrangement has been entered into or made in any jurisdiction whereby the rights of creditors of the foreign company are and continue to be suspended or restricted.

 

Where the surviving company is the Cayman Islands company, the director of the Cayman Islands company is further required to make a declaration to the effect that, having made due enquiry, he is of the opinion that the requirements set out below have been met: (i) that the foreign company is able to pay its debts as they fall due and that the merger or consolidated is bona fide and not intended to defraud unsecured creditors of the foreign company; (ii) that in respect of the transfer of any security interest granted by the foreign company to the surviving or consolidated company (a) consent or approval to the transfer has been obtained, released or waived; (b) the transfer is permitted by and has been approved in accordance with the constitutional documents of the foreign company; and (c) the laws of the jurisdiction of the foreign company with respect to the transfer have been or will be complied with; (iii) that the foreign company will, upon the merger or consolidation becoming effective, cease to be incorporated, registered or exist under the laws of the relevant foreign jurisdiction; and (iv) that there is no other reason why it would be against the public interest to permit the merger or consolidation.

   

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Where the above procedures are adopted, the Companies Law provides for a right of dissenting shareholders to be paid a payment of the fair value of his shares upon their dissenting to the merger or consolidation if they follow a prescribed procedure. In essence, that procedure is as follows (a) the shareholder must give his written objection to the merger or consolidation to the constituent company before the vote on the merger or consolidation, including a statement that the shareholder proposes to demand payment for his shares if the merger or consolidation is authorized by the vote; (b) within 20 days following the date on which the merger or consolidation is approved by the shareholders, the constituent company must give written notice to each shareholder who made a written objection; (c) a shareholder must within 20 days following receipt of such notice from the constituent company, give the constituent company a written notice of his intention to dissent including, among other details, a demand for payment of the fair value of his shares; (d) within seven days following the date of the expiration of the period set out in paragraph (b) above or seven days following the date on which the plan of merger or consolidation is filed, whichever is later, the constituent company, the surviving company or the consolidated company must make a written offer to each dissenting shareholder to purchase his shares at a price that the company determines is the fair value and if the company and the shareholder agree the price within 30 days following the date on which the offer was made, the company must pay the shareholder such amount; (e) if the company and the shareholder fail to agree a price within such 30 day period, within 20 days following the date on which such 30 day period expires, the company (and any dissenting shareholder) must file a petition with the Cayman Islands Grand Court to determine the fair value and such petition must be accompanied by a list of the names and addresses of the dissenting shareholders with whom agreements as to the fair value of their shares have not been reached by the company. At the hearing of that petition, the court has the power to determine the fair value of the shares together with a fair rate of interest, if any, to be paid by the company upon the amount determined to be the fair value. Any dissenting shareholder whose name appears on the list filed by the company may participate fully in all proceedings until the determination of fair value is reached. These rights of a dissenting shareholder are not be available in certain circumstances, for example, to dissenters holding shares of any class in respect of which an open market exists on a recognized stock exchange or recognized interdealer quotation system at the relevant date or where the consideration for such shares to be contributed are shares of any company listed on a national securities exchange or shares of the surviving or consolidated company.

 

Moreover, Cayman Islands law also has separate statutory provisions that facilitate the reconstruction or amalgamation of companies in certain circumstances, schemes of arrangement will generally be more suited for complex mergers or other transactions involving widely held companies, commonly referred to in the Cayman Islands as a “scheme of arrangement” which may be tantamount to a merger. In the event that a merger was sought pursuant to a scheme of arrangement (the procedure of which are more rigorous and take longer to complete than the procedures typically required to consummate a merger in the United States), the arrangement in question must be approved by a majority in number of each class of shareholders and creditors with whom the arrangement is to be made and who must in addition represent three-fourths in value of each such class of shareholders or creditors, as the case may be, that are present and voting either in person or by proxy at a meeting, or meeting summoned for that purpose. The convening of the meetings and subsequently the terms of the arrangement must be sanctioned by the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. While a dissenting shareholder would have the right to express to the court the view that the transaction should not be approved, the court can be expected to approve the arrangement if it satisfies itself that:

 

we are not proposing to act illegally or beyond the scope of our corporate authority and the statutory provisions as to majority vote have been complied with;

the shareholders have been fairly represented at the meeting in question;

the arrangement is such as a businessman would reasonably approve; and

the arrangement is not one that would more properly be sanctioned under some other provision of the Companies Law or that would amount to a “fraud on the minority.”

 

If a scheme of arrangement or takeover offer (as described below) is approved, any dissenting shareholder would have no rights comparable to appraisal rights, which would otherwise ordinarily be available to dissenting shareholders of United States corporations, providing rights to receive payment in cash for the judicially determined value of the shares.

  

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Squeeze-out Provisions .

 

When a takeover offer is made and accepted by holders of 90% of the shares to whom the offer relates within four months, the offeror may, within a two-month period, require the holders of the remaining shares to transfer such shares on the terms of the offer. An objection can be made to the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands but this is unlikely to succeed unless there is evidence of fraud, bad faith, collusion or inequitable treatment of the shareholders.

 

Further, transactions similar to a merger, reconstruction and/or an amalgamation may in some circumstances be achieved through other means to these statutory provisions, such as a share capital exchange, asset acquisition or control, through contractual arrangements, of an operating business.

 

Shareholders’ Suits . 

 

Our Cayman Islands counsel is not aware of any reported class action having been brought in a Cayman Islands court. Derivative actions have been brought in the Cayman Islands courts, and the Cayman Islands courts have confirmed the availability for such actions. In most cases, we will be the proper plaintiff in any claim based on a breach of duty owed to us, and a claim against (for example) our officers or directors usually may not be brought by a shareholder. However, based both on Cayman Islands authorities and on English authorities, which would in all likelihood be of persuasive authority and be applied by a court in the Cayman Islands, exceptions to the foregoing principle apply in circumstances in which:

 

a company is acting, or proposing to act, illegally or beyond the scope of its authority;  

the act complained of, although not beyond the scope of the authority, could be effected if duly authorized by more than the number of votes which have actually been obtained; or  

those who control the company are perpetrating a “fraud on the minority.”

 

A shareholder may have a direct right of action against us where the individual rights of that shareholder have been infringed or are about to be infringed.

 

Enforcement of civil liabilities .

 

The Cayman Islands has a different body of securities laws as compared to the United States and may provide less protection to investors. Additionally, Cayman Islands companies may not have standing to sue before the Federal courts of the United States.

 

We have been advised by our Cayman Islands legal counsel that the courts of the Cayman Islands are unlikely (i) to recognize or enforce against us judgments of courts of the United States predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the United States or any state; and (ii) in original actions brought in the Cayman Islands, to impose liabilities against us predicated upon the civil liability provisions of the federal securities laws of the United States or any state, so far as the liabilities imposed by those provisions are penal in nature. In those circumstances, although there is no statutory enforcement in the Cayman Islands of judgments obtained in the United States, the courts of the Cayman Islands will recognize and enforce a foreign money judgment of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction without retrial on the merits based on the principle that a judgment of a competent foreign court imposes upon the judgment debtor an obligation to pay the sum for which judgment has been given provided certain conditions are met. For a foreign judgment to be enforced in the Cayman Islands, such judgment must be final and conclusive and for a liquidated sum, and must not be in respect of taxes or a fine or penalty, inconsistent with a Cayman Islands judgment in respect of the same matter, impeachable on the grounds of fraud or obtained in a manner, and or be of a kind the enforcement of which is, contrary to natural justice or the public policy of the Cayman Islands (awards of punitive or multiple damages may well be held to be contrary to public policy). A Cayman Islands Court may stay enforcement proceedings if concurrent proceedings are being brought elsewhere.

  

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Special Considerations for Exempted Companies .

 

We are an exempted company with limited liability under the Companies Law. The Companies Law distinguishes between ordinary resident companies and exempted companies. Any company that is registered in the Cayman Islands but conducts business mainly outside of the Cayman Islands may apply to be registered as an exempted company. The requirements for an exempted company are essentially the same as for an ordinary company except for the exemptions and privileges listed below:

 

annual reporting requirements are minimal and consist mainly of a statement that the company has conducted its operations mainly outside of the Cayman Islands and has complied with the provisions of the Companies Law;

an exempted company’s register of members is not open to inspection;

an exempted company does not have to hold an annual general meeting;

an exempted company may issue negotiable or bearer shares or shares with no par value;

an exempted company may obtain an undertaking against the imposition of any future taxation (such undertakings are usually given for 20 years in the first instance);

an exempted company may register by way of continuation in another jurisdiction and be deregistered in the Cayman Islands;

an exempted company may register as a limited duration company; and

an exempted company may register as a segregated portfolio company.

 

Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association

 

Our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association filed under the laws of the Cayman Islands contain provisions designed to provide certain rights and protections to our shareholders prior to the consummation of a business combination.

 

The Companies Law permits a company incorporated in the Cayman Islands to amend its memorandum and articles of association with the approval of the holders of at least two-thirds of such company’s issued and outstanding ordinary shares who attend and vote at a general meeting. A company’s articles of association may specify that the approval of a higher majority is required but, provided the approval of the required majority is obtained, any Cayman Islands company may amend its memorandum and articles of association regardless of whether its memorandum and articles of association provides otherwise. Accordingly, although we could amend any of the provisions relating to our proposed offering, structure and business plan which are contained in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association, we view all of these provisions as binding obligations to our shareholders and neither we, nor our officers or directors, will take any action to amend or waive any of these provisions unless we provide public shareholders with the opportunity to convert their public shares in connection with any such vote. The foregoing is set forth in our amended and restated memorandum and articles of association and cannot be amended.

 

Anti-Money Laundering — Cayman Islands

 

In order to comply with legislation or regulations aimed at the prevention of money laundering we are required to adopt and maintain anti-money laundering procedures, and may require subscribers to provide evidence to verify their identity, the identity of their beneficial owners/controllers (where applicable), and source of funds. Where permitted, and subject to certain conditions, we may also delegate the maintenance of its anti-money laundering procedures (including the acquisition of due diligence information) to a suitable person.

 

We reserve the right to request such information as is necessary to verify the identity of a subscriber. In some cases the directors may be satisfied that no further information is required since an exemption applies under the Anti-Money Laundering Regulations (2018 Revision) of the Cayman Islands, as amended and revised from time to time (the “Regulations”) or any other applicable law. Depending on the circumstances of each application, a detailed verification of identity might not be required where:

 

(a) the subscriber makes the payment for their investment from an account held in the subscriber’s name at a recognized financial institution; or

 

(b) the subscriber is regulated by a recognized regulatory authority and is based or incorporated in, or formed under the law of, a recognized jurisdiction; or

 

(c) the application is made through an intermediary which is regulated by a recognized regulatory authority and is based in or incorporated in, or formed under the law of a recognized jurisdiction and an assurance is provided in relation to the procedures undertaken on the underlying investors.

 

For the purposes of these exceptions, recognition of a financial institution, regulatory authority or jurisdiction will be determined in accordance with the Regulations by reference to those jurisdictions recognized by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority as having equivalent anti-money laundering regulations.

  

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In the event of delay or failure on the part of the subscriber in producing any information required for verification purposes, we may refuse to accept the application, in which case any funds received will be returned without interest to the account from which they were originally debited.

 

We also reserve the right to refuse to make any payment to a shareholder if our directors or officers suspect or are advised that the payment to such shareholder might result in a breach of applicable anti-money laundering or other laws or regulations by any person in any relevant jurisdiction, or if such refusal is considered necessary or appropriate to ensure our compliance with any such laws or regulations in any applicable jurisdiction.

 

If any person in the Cayman Islands knows or suspects or has reasonable grounds for knowing or suspecting that another person is engaged in criminal conduct or money laundering or is involved with terrorism or terrorist financing and property and the information for that knowledge or suspicion came to their attention in the course of business in the regulated sector, or other trade, profession, business or employment, the person will be required to report such knowledge or suspicion to (i) the Financial Reporting Authority (“FRA”) of the Cayman Islands, pursuant to the Proceeds of Crime Law (2018 Revision) of the Cayman Islands if the disclosure relates to criminal conduct or money laundering, or (ii) a police officer of the rank of constable or higher, or the FRA, pursuant to the Terrorism Law (2018 Revision) of the Cayman Islands, if the disclosure relates to involvement with terrorism or terrorist financing and property. Such a report shall not be treated as a breach of confidence or of any restriction upon the disclosure of information imposed by any enactment or otherwise.

 

Indemnification of Directors and Executive Officers and Limitation of Liability

 

Cayman Islands law does not limit the extent to which a company’s memorandum and articles of association may provide for indemnification of officers and directors, except to the extent any such provision may be held by the Islands courts to be contrary to public policy, such as to provide indemnification against willful default, willful neglect, civil fraud or the consequences of committing a crime. Our memorandum and articles of association will provide for indemnification of our officers and directors to the maximum extent permitted by law, including for any liability incurred in their capacities as such, except through their own actual fraud, willful default or willful neglect.

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is theretofore unenforceable.

 

This standard of conduct is generally the same as permitted under the Delaware General Corporation Law for a Delaware corporation. In addition, we intend to enter into indemnification agreements with our directors and executive officers that will provide such persons with additional indemnification beyond that provided in our articles.

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to our directors, officers or persons controlling us under the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that, in the opinion of the SEC, such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

 

Duties of Directors

 

Under Cayman Islands law, directors and officers owe the following fiduciary duties:

 

(i) duty to act in good faith in what the director believes to be in the best interests of the company as a whole;

 

(ii) duty to exercise powers for the purposes for which those powers were conferred and not for a collateral purpose;

 

(iii) directors should not properly fetter the exercise of future discretion;

 

(iv) duty not to put themselves in a position in which there is a conflict between their duty to the company and their personal interests; and

 

(v) duty to exercise independent judgment.

  

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In addition to the above, directors also owe a duty of care which is not fiduciary in nature. This duty has been defined as a requirement to act as a reasonably diligent person having both the general knowledge, skill and experience that may reasonably be expected of a person carrying out the same functions as are carried out by that director in relation to the company and the general knowledge skill and experience which that director has.

 

As set out above, directors have a duty not to put themselves in a position of conflict and this includes a duty not to engage in self-dealing, or to otherwise benefit as a result of their position. However, in some instances what would otherwise be a breach of this duty can be forgiven and/or authorized in advance by the shareholders provided that there is full disclosure by the directors. This can be done by way of permission granted in the memorandum and articles of association or alternatively by shareholder approval at general meetings.

 

Shareholder Proposals

 

Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, a shareholder has the right to put any proposal before the annual meeting of shareholders, provided it complies with the notice provisions in the governing documents. The Delaware General Corporation Law does not provide shareholders an express right to put any proposal before the annual meeting of shareholders, but in keeping with common law, Delaware corporations generally afford shareholders an opportunity to make proposals and nominations provided that they comply with the notice provisions in the certificate of incorporation or bylaws. A special meeting may be called by the board of directors or any other person authorized to do so in the governing documents, but shareholders may be precluded from calling special meetings.

 

The Companies Law provides shareholders with only limited rights to requisition a general meeting, and does not provide shareholders with any right to put any proposal before a general meeting. However, these rights may be provided in a company’s articles of association. Our articles provide that general meetings shall be convened on the written requisition of one or more of the shareholders entitled to attend and vote at our general meetings who (together) hold not less than ten per cent in par value of the issued shares which as at that date carry the right to vote at general meetings deposited in accordance with the notice provisions in the articles, specifying the purpose of the meeting and signed by each of the shareholders making the requisition. If the directors do not convene such meeting for a date not later than twenty-one clear days’ after the date of receipt of the written requisition, those shareholders who requested the meeting may convene the general meeting themselves within three months after the end of such period of twenty-one clear days in which case reasonable expenses incurred by them as a result of the directors failing to convene a meeting shall be reimbursed by us.. Our articles provide no other right to put any proposals before annual general meetings or extraordinary general meetings. As a Cayman Islands exempted company, we are not obligated by law to call shareholders’ annual general meetings. However, our corporate governance guidelines require us to call such meetings every year.

 

Cumulative Voting

 

Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, cumulative voting for elections of directors is not permitted unless the corporation’s certificate of incorporation specifically provides for it. Cumulative voting potentially facilitates the representation of minority shareholders on a board of directors since it permits the minority shareholder to cast all the votes to which the shareholder is entitled on a single director, which increases the shareholder’s voting power with respect to electing such director. As permitted under the Companies Law, our articles do not provide for cumulative voting. As a result, our shareholders are not afforded any less protections or rights on this issue than shareholders of a Delaware corporation.

 

Removal of Directors

 

Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, a director of a corporation with a classified board may be removed only for cause with the approval of a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote, unless the certificate of incorporation provides otherwise. Subject to the provisions of our articles, the office of a director may be terminated forthwith if (a) he is prohibited by applicable law, the rules of the stock exchange and/or the rules of any competent regulatory authority from acting as a director, (b) he is made bankrupt or makes an arrangement or composition with his creditors generally, (c) he resigns his office by notice to us, (d) he only held office as a director for a fixed term and such term expires, (e) in the opinion of a registered medical practitioner by whom he is being treated he becomes physically or mentally incapable of acting as a director, (f) he is given notice by the majority of the other directors (not being less than two in number) to vacate office (without prejudice to any claim for damages for breach of any agreement relating to the provision of the services of such director), (g)he is made subject to any law relating to mental health or incompetence, whether by court order or otherwise, or (h) without the consent of the other directors, he is absent from three consecutive meetings of directors, or (i) he is removed by ordinary resolution of our shareholders.

  

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Transactions with Interested Shareholders

 

The Delaware General Corporation Law contains a business combination statute applicable to Delaware public corporations whereby, unless the corporation has specifically elected not to be governed by such statute by amendment to its certificate of incorporation or bylaws that is approved by its shareholders, it is prohibited from engaging in certain business combinations with an “interested shareholder” for three years following the date that such person becomes an interested shareholder. An interested shareholder generally is a person or a group who or which owns or owned 15% or more of the target’s outstanding voting stock or who or which is an affiliate or associate of the corporation and owned 15% or more of the corporation’s outstanding voting stock within the past three years. This has the effect of limiting the ability of a potential acquirer to make a two-tiered bid for the target in which all shareholders would not be treated equally. The statute does not apply if, among other things, prior to the date on which such shareholder becomes an interested shareholder, the board of directors approves either the business combination or the transaction which resulted in the person becoming an interested shareholder. This encourages any potential acquirer of a Delaware corporation to negotiate the terms of any acquisition transaction with the target’s board of directors.

 

The Cayman Companies Law has no comparable statute. As a result, we cannot avail ourselves of the types of protections afforded by the Delaware business combination statute. However, although the Cayman Companies Law does not regulate transactions between a company and its significant shareholders, under Cayman Islands law such transactions must be entered into bona fide in the best interests of the company and for a proper corporate purpose and not with the effect of constituting a fraud on the minority shareholders.

 

Dissolution; Winding Up

 

Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, unless the board of directors approves the proposal to dissolve, dissolution must be approved by shareholders holding 100% of the total voting power of the corporation. Only if the dissolution is initiated by the board of directors may it be approved by a simple majority of the corporation’s outstanding shares. Delaware law allows a Delaware corporation to include in its certificate of incorporation a supermajority voting requirement in connection with dissolutions initiated by the board of directors.

 

Under the Companies Law and our articles, our company may be wound up by a special resolution of our shareholders, or if the winding up is initiated by our board of directors, by either a special resolution of our members or, if our company is unable to pay its debts as they fall due, by an ordinary resolution of our members. In addition, a company may be wound up by an order of the courts of the Cayman Islands. The court has authority to order winding up in a number of specified circumstances including where it is, in the opinion of the court, just and equitable to do so.

 

Variation of Rights of Shares

 

Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, a corporation may vary the rights of a class of shares with the approval of a majority of the outstanding shares of such class, unless the certificate of incorporation provides otherwise. Under the Companies Law and our articles, if our share capital is divided into more than one class of shares, the rights attaching to any class of share (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class) may be varied either with the consent in writing of the holders of not less than two-thirds of the issued shares of that class, or with the sanction of a resolution passed by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the holders of shares of the class present in person or by proxy at a separate general meeting of the holders of shares of that class.

 

Amendment of Governing Documents

 

Under the Delaware General Corporation Law, a corporation’s certificate of incorporation may be amended only if adopted and declared advisable by the board of directors and approved by a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote, and the bylaws may be amended with the approval of a majority of the outstanding shares entitled to vote and may, if so provided in the certificate of incorporation, also be amended by the board of directors. Under the Companies Law, our articles may only be amended by special resolution of our shareholders.

  

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SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE

 

Before our initial public offering, there has not been a public market for our ordinary shares, and while application has been made for the ordinary shares to be listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market, a regular trading market for our Class A Ordinary Shares may not develop. Future sales of substantial amounts of shares of our Class A Ordinary Shares in the public market after our initial public offering, or the possibility of these sales occurring, could cause the prevailing market price for our Class A Ordinary Shares to fall or impair our ability to raise equity capital in the future. Upon completion of this offering, we will have outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares representing approximately [●]% of our Class A Ordinary Shares in issue if the Class A Ordinary Shares are offered and sold at the minimum offering amount, and approximately [●]% of our Class A Ordinary Shares in issue if the Class A Ordinary Shares are offered and sold at the maximum offering amount. All of the Class A Ordinary Shares sold in this offering will be freely transferable by persons other than our “affiliates” without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act.

 

Lock-up Agreements

 

We have agreed that we will not offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of (including entering into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequence of ownership interests), directly or indirectly, any of our Class A Ordinary Shares or any securities that are convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for our Class A Ordinary Shares, or file any registration statement with the SEC relating to the offering of any Class A Ordinary Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Ordinary Shares (other than a registration statement on Form S-8) without the prior written consent of the underwriter for a period ending 180 days after the commencement of sales of the offering, except issuances pursuant to the exercise of employee share options outstanding on the date hereof and certain other exceptions.

 

Each of our directors and executive officers who purchased shares of Class A Ordinary Shares from our principal shareholder, [●], and existing beneficial owners of 5% or more of our outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares has agreed, subject to some exceptions, not to offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, grant, lend or otherwise transfer or dispose of (including entering into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequence of ownership interests), directly or indirectly, any of our Class A Ordinary Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Ordinary Shares or make any demand for or exercise any right with respect to, the registration of any Class A Ordinary Shares or any security convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Ordinary Shares, without the prior written consent of the underwriter for a period ending 180 days after the commencement date of the trading of the Class A Ordinary Shares. After the expiration of the 180-day period, Class A Ordinary Shares held by our directors, executive officers or existing beneficial owners of 5% or more of our outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares may be sold subject to the restrictions under Rule 144 under the Securities Act or by means of registered public offerings.

 

The 180-day restricted period is subject to adjustment under certain circumstances. If (1) during the last 17 days of the 180-day restricted period, we issue an earnings release or material news or a material event relating to us occurs; or (2) prior to the expiration of the 180-day restricted period, we announce that we will release earnings results during the 16-day period beginning on the last day of the 180-day period, the restrictions will continue to apply until the expiration of the 180-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the occurrence of the material news or material event, unless, with respect to the restricted period applicable to us, our directors and executive officers and our existing beneficial owners of 5% or more of our outstanding Class A Ordinary Shares, such extension is waived by the underwriter.

 

Rule 144

 

All of our Class A Ordinary Shares outstanding prior to this offering are “restricted securities” as that term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act and may be sold publicly in the United States only if they are subject to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act or pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirement such as those provided by Rule 144 and Rule 701 promulgated under the Securities Act.

 

In general, under Rule 144 as currently in effect, beginning 90 days after the date of this prospectus, a person who is not deemed to have been our affiliate at any time during the three months preceding a sale and who has beneficially owned restricted securities within the meaning of Rule 144 for more than six months would be entitled to sell an unlimited number of those shares, subject only to the availability of current public information about us. A non-affiliate who has beneficially owned restricted securities for at least one year from the later of the date these shares were acquired from us or from our affiliate would be entitled to freely sell those shares.

 

A person who is deemed to be an affiliate of ours and who has beneficially owned “restricted securities” for at least six months would be entitled to sell, within any three-month period, a number of shares that is not more than the greater of:

 

  1% of the number of Class A Ordinary Shares then outstanding, in the form of Class A Ordinary Shares or otherwise, which will equal approximately shares immediately after this offering; or
     
  the average weekly trading volume of the Class A Ordinary Shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market during the four calendar weeks preceding the filing of a notice on Form 144 with respect to such sale.

 

Sales under Rule 144 by our affiliates or persons selling shares on behalf of our affiliates are also subject to certain manner of sale provisions and notice requirements and to the availability of current public information about us. In addition, in each case, these shares would remain subject to lock-up arrangements and would only become eligible for sale when the lock-up period expires.

   

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TAXATION

 

Material Tax Consequences Applicable to U.S. Holders of Our Class A Ordinary Shares

 

The following sets forth the material Cayman Islands, Chinese and U.S. federal income tax consequences related to an investment in our Class A Ordinary Shares. It is directed to U.S. Holders (as defined below) of our Class A Ordinary Shares and is based upon laws and relevant interpretations thereof in effect as of the date of this prospectus, all of which are subject to change. This description does not deal with all possible tax consequences relating to an investment in our Class A Ordinary Shares, such as the tax consequences under state, local and other tax laws. Unless otherwise noted in the following discussion, this section is the opinion of Hunter Taubman Fischer and LI LLC, our U.S. Tax counsel, insofar as it relates to legal conclusions with respect to matters of U.S. federal income tax law, and of Jingtian & Gongcheng, our PRC counsel, insofar as it relates to legal conclusions with respect to matters of Chinese tax law.

 

The following brief description applies only to U.S. Holders (defined below) that hold Class A Ordinary Shares as capital assets and that have the U.S. dollar as their functional currency. This brief description is based on the tax laws of the United States in effect as of the date of this prospectus and on U.S. Treasury regulations in effect or, in some cases, proposed, as of the date of this prospectus, as well as judicial and administrative interpretations thereof available on or before such date. All of the foregoing authorities are subject to change, which change could apply retroactively and could affect the tax consequences described below.

 

The brief description below of the U.S. federal income tax consequences to “U.S. Holders” will apply to you if you are a beneficial owner of shares and you are, for U.S. federal income tax purposes,

 

  an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States;
     
  a corporation (or other entity taxable as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes) organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia;
     
  an estate whose income is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless of its source; or
     
  a trust that (1) is subject to the primary supervision of a court within the United States and the control of one or more U.S. persons for all substantial decisions or (2) has a valid election in effect under applicable U.S. Treasury regulations to be treated as a U.S. person.

  

WE URGE POTENTIAL PURCHASERS OF OUR SHARES TO CONSULT THEIR OWN TAX
ADVISORS CONCERNING THE U.S. FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL AND NON-U.S. TAX
CONSEQUENCES OF PURCHASING, OWNING AND DISPOSING OF OUR SHARES.

 

People’s Republic of China Enterprise Taxation

 

The following brief description of Chinese enterprise laws is designed to highlight the enterprise-level taxation on our earnings, which will affect the amount of dividends, if any, we are ultimately able to pay to our shareholders. See “Dividend Policy.”

 

We are a holding company incorporated in the Cayman Islands and we gain substantial income by way of dividends paid to us from our PRC subsidiaries. The EIT Law and its implementation rules provide that China-sourced income of foreign enterprises, such as dividends paid by a PRC subsidiary to its equity holders that are non-resident enterprises, will normally be subject to PRC withholding tax at a rate of 10%, unless any such foreign investor’s jurisdiction of incorporation has a tax treaty with China that provides for a preferential tax rate or a tax exemption.

 

Under the EIT Law, an enterprise established outside of China with a “de facto management body” within China is considered a “resident enterprise,” which means that it is treated in a manner similar to a Chinese enterprise for enterprise income tax purposes. Although the implementation rules of the EIT Law define “de facto management body” as a managing body that actually, comprehensively manage and control the production and operation, staff, accounting, property and other aspects of an enterprise, the only official guidance for this definition currently available is set forth in SAT Notice 82, which provides guidance on the determination of the tax residence status of a Chinese-controlled offshore incorporated enterprise, defined as an enterprise that is incorporated under the laws of a foreign country or territory and that has a PRC enterprise or enterprise group as its primary controlling shareholder. Although Hitek Global Inc. does not have a PRC enterprise or enterprise group as our primary controlling shareholder and is therefore not a Chinese-controlled offshore incorporated enterprise within the meaning of SAT Notice 82, in the absence of guidance specifically applicable to us, we have applied the guidance set forth in SAT Notice 82 to evaluate the tax residence status of Hitek Global Inc. and its subsidiaries organized outside the PRC.

  

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According to SAT Notice 82, a Chinese-controlled offshore incorporated enterprise will be regarded as a PRC tax resident by virtue of having a “de facto management body” in China and will be subject to PRC enterprise income tax on its worldwide income only if all of the following criteria are met: (i) the places where senior management and senior management departments that are responsible for daily production, operation and management of the enterprise perform their duties are mainly located within the territory of China; (ii) financial decisions (such as money borrowing, lending, financing and financial risk management) and personnel decisions (such as appointment, dismissal and salary and wages) are decided or need to be decided by organizations or persons located within the territory of China; (iii) main property, accounting books, corporate seal, the board of directors and files of the minutes of shareholders’ meetings of the enterprise are located or preserved within the territory of China; and (iv) one half (or more) of the directors or senior management staff having the right to vote habitually reside within the territory of China.

 

We believe that we do not meet some of the conditions outlined in the immediately preceding paragraph. For example, as a holding company, the key assets and records of Hitek Global Inc., including the resolutions and meeting minutes of our board of directors and the resolutions and meeting minutes of our shareholders, are located and maintained outside the PRC. In addition, we are not aware of any offshore holding companies with a corporate structure similar to ours that has been deemed a PRC “resident enterprise” by the PRC tax authorities. Accordingly, we believe that Hitek Global Inc. and its offshore subsidiaries should not be treated as a “resident enterprise” for PRC tax purposes if the criteria for “de facto management body” as set forth in SAT Notice 82 were deemed applicable to us. However, as the tax residency status of an enterprise is subject to determination by the PRC tax authorities and uncertainties remain with respect to the interpretation of the term “de facto management body” as applicable to our offshore entities, we will continue to monitor our tax status.

 

The implementation rules of the EIT Law provide that, (i) if the enterprise that distributes dividends is domiciled in the PRC or (ii) if gains are realized from transferring equity interests of enterprises domiciled in the PRC, then such dividends or gains are treated as China-sourced income. It is not clear how “domicile” may be interpreted under the EIT Law, and it may be interpreted as the jurisdiction where the enterprise is a tax resident. Therefore, if we are considered as a PRC tax resident enterprise for PRC tax purposes, any dividends we pay to our overseas shareholders which are non-resident enterprises as well as gains realized by such shareholders from the transfer of our shares may be regarded as China-sourced income and as a result become subject to PRC withholding tax at a rate of up to 10%. We are unable to provide a “will” opinion because Jingtian & Gongcheng, our PRC counsel, believes that it is possible but highly unlikely that the Company and its offshore subsidiaries would be treated as a “resident enterprise” for PRC tax purposes because they do not meet some of the conditions outlined in SAT Notice 82. In addition, we are not aware of any offshore holding companies with a corporate structure similar to ours that has been deemed a PRC “resident enterprise” by the PRC tax authorities as of the date of the prospectus. Therefore it is possible but highly unlikely that the income received by our overseas shareholders will be regarded as China-sourced income.

 

See “Risk Factors — Risks Related to Doing Business in China — Under the enterprise Income Tax Law, we may be classified as a “Resident enterprise” of China.”

 

Our company pays an EIT rate of 25% for WFOE. Any gain or loss recognized by you generally will be treated as United States source gain or loss. However, if we are treated as a PRC resident enterprise for PRC tax purposes and PRC tax were imposed on any gain, and if you are eligible for the benefits of the tax treaty between the United States and PRC, you may elect to treat such gain as PRC source gain under such treaty and, accordingly, you may be able to credit the PRC tax against your United States federal income tax liability.

  

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Cayman Islands Tax Considerations

 

The following is a discussion on certain Cayman Islands income tax consequences of an investment in the securities of the Company. The discussion is a general summary of present law, which is subject to prospective and retroactive change. It is not intended as tax advice, does not consider any investor’s particular circumstances, and does not consider tax consequences other than those arising under Cayman Islands law.

 

Under Existing Cayman Islands Laws:

 

Payments of dividends and capital in respect of our securities will not be subject to taxation in the Cayman Islands and no withholding will be required on the payment of a dividend or capital to any holder of the securities nor will gains derived from the disposal of the securities be subject to Cayman Islands income or corporation tax. The Cayman Islands currently have no income, corporation or capital gains tax and no estate duty, inheritance tax or gift tax.

 

No stamp duty is payable in respect of the issue of the warrants. An instrument of transfer in respect of a warrant is stampable if executed in or brought into the Cayman Islands.

 

No stamp duty is payable in respect of the issue of our Class A Ordinary Shares or on an instrument of transfer in respect of such shares.

 

The Company has been incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands as an exempted company with limited liability and, as such, has applied for and expects to obtain after the effectiveness of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part an undertaking from the Financial Secretary of the Cayman Islands in the following form:

 

The Tax Concessions Law (2018 Revision)

 

Undertaking as to Tax Concessions

 

In accordance with the provision of Section 6 of The Tax Concessions Law (2018 Revision), the Financial Secretary undertakes with Hitek Global Inc. (“the Company”):

 

1. That no law which is hereafter enacted in the Islands imposing any tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations shall apply to the Company or its operations; and

 

2. In addition, that no tax to be levied on profits, income, gains or appreciations or which is in the nature of estate duty or inheritance tax shall be payable:

 

a. On or in respect of the shares, debentures or other obligations of the Company; or

 

b. by way of the withholding in whole or part, of any relevant payment as defined in Section 6(3) of the Tax Concessions Law (2018 Revision).

 

These concessions shall be for a period of twenty years from the date hereof.

 

United States Federal Income Taxation

 

The following does not address the tax consequences to any particular investor or to persons in special tax situations such as:

  

  banks;
     
  financial institutions;
     
  insurance companies;
     
  regulated investment companies;

  

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  real estate investment trusts;
     
  broker-dealers;
     
  traders that elect to mark-to-market;
     
  U.S. expatriates;
     
  tax-exempt entities;
     
  persons liable for alternative minimum tax;
     
  persons holding our Class A Ordinary Shares as part of a straddle, hedging, conversion or integrated transaction;
     
  persons that actually or constructively own 10% or more of our voting shares;
     
  persons who acquired our Class A Ordinary Shares pursuant to the exercise of any employee share option or otherwise as consideration; or
     
  persons holding our Class A Ordinary Shares through partnerships or other pass-through entities.

 

Prospective purchasers are urged to consult their own tax advisors about the application of the U.S. Federal tax rules to their particular circumstances as well as the state, local, foreign and other tax consequences to them of the purchase, ownership and disposition of our Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

Taxation of Dividends and Other Distributions on our Class A Ordinary Shares

 

Subject to the passive foreign investment company rules discussed below, the gross amount of distributions made by us to you with respect to the Class A Ordinary Shares (including the amount of any taxes withheld therefrom) will generally be includable in your gross income as dividend income on the date of receipt by you, but only to the extent that the distribution is paid out of our current or accumulated earnings and profits (as determined under U.S. federal income tax principles). With respect to corporate U.S. Holders, the dividends will not be eligible for the dividends-received deduction allowed to corporations in respect of dividends received from other U.S. corporations.

 

With respect to non-corporate U.S. Holders, including individual U.S. Holders, dividends will be taxed at the lower capital gains rate applicable to qualified dividend income, provided that (1) the Class A Ordinary Shares are readily tradable on an established securities market in the United States, or we are eligible for the benefits of an approved qualifying income tax treaty with the United States that includes an exchange of information program, (2) we are not a passive foreign investment company (as discussed below) for either our taxable year in which the dividend is paid or the preceding taxable year, and (3) certain holding period requirements are met. Under U.S. Internal Revenue Service authority, Class A Ordinary Shares are considered for purpose of clause (1) above to be readily tradable on an established securities market in the United States if they are listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market. You are urged to consult your tax advisors regarding the availability of the lower rate for dividends paid with respect to our Class A Ordinary Shares, including the effects of any change in law after the date of this prospectus.

 

Dividends will constitute foreign source income for foreign tax credit limitation purposes. If the dividends are taxed as qualified dividend income (as discussed above), the amount of the dividend taken into account for purposes of calculating the foreign tax credit limitation will be limited to the gross amount of the dividend, multiplied by the reduced rate divided by the highest rate of tax normally applicable to dividends. The limitation on foreign taxes eligible for credit is calculated separately with respect to specific classes of income. For this purpose, dividends distributed by us with respect to our Class A Ordinary Shares will constitute “passive category income” but could, in the case of certain U.S. Holders, constitute “general category income.”

 

To the extent that the amount of the distribution exceeds our current and accumulated earnings and profits (as determined under U.S. federal income tax principles), it will be treated first as a tax-free return of your tax basis in your Class A Ordinary Shares, and to the extent the amount of the distribution exceeds your tax basis, the excess will be taxed as capital gain. We do not intend to calculate our earnings and profits under U.S. federal income tax principles. Therefore, a U.S. Holder should expect that a distribution will be treated as a dividend even if that distribution would otherwise be treated as a non-taxable return of capital or as capital gain under the rules described above.

   

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Taxation of Dispositions of Class A Ordinary Shares

 

Subject to the passive foreign investment company rules discussed below, you will recognize taxable gain or loss on any sale, exchange or other taxable disposition of a share equal to the difference between the amount realized (in U.S. dollars) for the share and your tax basis (in U.S. dollars) in the Class A Ordinary Shares. The gain or loss will be capital gain or loss. If you are a non-corporate U.S. Holder, including an individual U.S. Holder, who has held the Class A Ordinary Shares for more than one year, you will be eligible for (a) reduced tax rates of 0% (for individuals in the 10% or 15% tax brackets), (b) higher tax rates of 20% (for individuals in the 39.6% tax bracket) or (c) 15% for all other individuals. The deductibility of capital losses is subject to limitations. Any such gain or loss that you recognize will generally be treated as United States source income or loss for foreign tax credit limitation purposes.

 

Passive Foreign Investment Company

 

Based on our current and anticipated operations and the composition of our assets, we do not expect to be a passive foreign investment company, or PFIC, for U.S. federal income tax purposes for our current taxable year ending [●], 2017. Our actual PFIC status for the current taxable year ending [●], 2017 will not be determinable until the close of such taxable year and, accordingly, there is no guarantee that we will not be a PFIC for the current taxable year. PFIC status is a factual determination for each taxable year which cannot be made until the close of the taxable year. A non-U.S. corporation is considered a PFIC for any taxable year if either:

 

  at least 75% of its gross income is passive income; or
     
  at least 50% of the value of its assets (based on an average of the quarterly values of the assets during a taxable year) is attributable to assets that produce or are held for the production of passive income (the “asset test”).

 

We will be treated as owning our proportionate share of the assets and earning our proportionate share of the income of any other corporation in which we own, directly or indirectly, at least 25% (by value) of the stock.

 

We must make a separate determination each year as to whether we are a PFIC. As a result, our PFIC status may change from no to yes. In particular, because the value of our assets for purposes of the asset test will generally be determined based on the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares, our PFIC status will depend in large part on the market price of our Class A Ordinary Shares. Accordingly, fluctuations in the market price of the Class A Ordinary Shares may cause us to become a PFIC. In addition, the application of the PFIC rules is subject to uncertainty in several respects and the composition of our income and assets will be affected by how, and how quickly, we spend the cash we raise in this offering. If we are a PFIC for any year during which you hold Class A Ordinary Shares, we will continue to be treated as a PFIC for all succeeding years during which you hold Class A Ordinary Shares. However, if we cease to be a PFIC, you may avoid some of the adverse effects of the PFIC regime by making a “deemed sale” election with respect to the Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

If we are a PFIC for any taxable year during which you hold Class A Ordinary Shares, you will be subject to special tax rules with respect to any “excess distribution” that you receive and any gain you realize from a sale or other disposition (including a pledge) of the Class A Ordinary Shares, unless you make a “mark-to-market” election as discussed below. Distributions you receive in a taxable year that are greater than 125% of the average annual distributions you received during the shorter of the three preceding taxable years or your holding period for the Class A Ordinary Shares will be treated as an excess distribution. Under these special tax rules:

 

  the excess distribution or gain will be allocated ratably over your holding period for the Class A Ordinary Shares;
     
  the amount allocated to the current taxable year, and any taxable year prior to the first taxable year in which we were a PFIC, will be treated as ordinary income, and

 

  the amount allocated to each other year will be subject to the highest tax rate in effect for that year and the interest charge generally applicable to underpayments of tax will be imposed on the resulting tax attributable to each such year.

  

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The tax liability for amounts allocated to years prior to the year of disposition or “excess distribution” cannot be offset by any net operating losses for such years, and gains (but not losses) realized on the sale of the Class A Ordinary Shares cannot be treated as capital, even if you hold the Class A Ordinary Shares as capital assets.

 

A U.S. Holder of “marketable stock” (as defined below) in a PFIC may make a mark-to-market election for such stock to elect out of the tax treatment discussed above. If you make a mark-to-market election for the Class A Ordinary Shares, you will include in income each year an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the fair market value of the Class A Ordinary Shares as of the close of your taxable year over your adjusted basis in such Class A Ordinary Shares. You are allowed a deduction for the excess, if any, of the adjusted basis of the Class A Ordinary Shares over their fair market value as of the close of the taxable year. However, deductions are allowable only to the extent of any net mark-to-market gains on the Class A Ordinary Shares included in your income for prior taxable years. Amounts included in your income under a mark-to-market election, as well as gain on the actual sale or other disposition of the Class A Ordinary Shares, are treated as ordinary income. Ordinary loss treatment also applies to the deductible portion of any mark-to-market loss on the Class A Ordinary Shares, as well as to any loss realized on the actual sale or disposition of the Class A Ordinary Shares, to the extent that the amount of such loss does not exceed the net mark-to-market gains previously included for such Class A Ordinary Shares. Your basis in the Class A Ordinary Shares will be adjusted to reflect any such income or loss amounts. If you make a valid mark-to-market election, the tax rules that apply to distributions by corporations which are not PFICs would apply to distributions by us, except that the lower applicable capital gains rate for qualified dividend income discussed above under “— Taxation of Dividends and Other Distributions on our Class A Ordinary Shares” generally would not apply.

 

The mark-to-market election is available only for “marketable stock”, which is stock that is traded in other than de minimis quantities on at least 15 days during each calendar quarter (“regularly traded”) on a qualified exchange or other market (as defined in applicable U.S. Treasury regulations), including the Nasdaq Capital Market. If the Class A Ordinary Shares are regularly traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market and if you are a holder of Class A Ordinary Shares, the mark-to-market election would be available to you were we to be or become a PFIC.

 

Alternatively, a U.S. Holder of stock in a PFIC may make a “qualified electing fund” election with respect to such PFIC to elect out of the tax treatment discussed above. A U.S. Holder who makes a valid qualified electing fund election with respect to a PFIC will generally include in gross income for a taxable year such holder’s pro rata share of the corporation’s earnings and profits for the taxable year. However, the qualified electing fund election is available only if such PFIC provides such U.S. Holder with certain information regarding its earnings and profits as required under applicable U.S. Treasury regulations. We do not currently intend to prepare or provide the information that would enable you to make a qualified electing fund election. If you hold Class A Ordinary Shares in any year in which we are a PFIC, you will be required to file U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form 8621 regarding distributions received on the Class A Ordinary Shares and any gain realized on the disposition of the Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

You are urged to consult your tax advisors regarding the application of the PFIC rules to your investment in our Class A Ordinary Shares and the elections discussed above.

 

Information Reporting and Backup Withholding

 

Dividend payments with respect to our Class A Ordinary Shares and proceeds from the sale, exchange or redemption of our Class A Ordinary Shares may be subject to information reporting to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and possible U.S. backup withholding at a current rate of 28%. Backup withholding will not apply, however, to a U.S. Holder who furnishes a correct taxpayer identification number and makes any other required certification on U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or who is otherwise exempt from backup withholding. U.S. Holders who are required to establish their exempt status generally must provide such certification on U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-9. U.S. Holders are urged to consult their tax advisors regarding the application of the U.S. information reporting and backup withholding rules.

 

Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Amounts withheld as backup withholding may be credited against your U.S. federal income tax liability, and you may obtain a refund of any excess amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules by filing the appropriate claim for refund with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and furnishing any required information. We do not intend to withhold taxes for individual shareholders.

 

Under the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act of 2010, certain United States Holders are required to report information relating to Class A Ordinary Shares, subject to certain exceptions (including an exception for Class A Ordinary Shares held in accounts maintained by certain financial institutions), by attaching a complete Internal Revenue Service Form 8938, Statement of Specified Foreign Financial Assets, with their tax return for each year in which they hold Class A Ordinary Shares. U.S. Holders are urged to consult their tax advisors regarding the application of the U.S. information reporting and backup withholding rules.

  

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Underwriting

 

In connection with this offering, we expect to enter into an underwriting agreement with Boustead Securities, LLC, (the “Underwriter”). The underwriting agreement will provide that we will issue and sell to the public through the Underwriter, and the Underwriter will offer and sell, on a best efforts basis, at the public offering price a minimum offering amount of [●] Class A Ordinary Shares and a maximum offering amount of [●] Class A Ordinary Shares on a best efforts basis. The underwriting agreement will provide that the Underwriter is not required to purchase or sell any securities offered by this prospectus, nor is it required to arrange the purchase or sale of any specific number or dollar amount of securities, but rather it will use its best efforts to arrange for the sale of all of the securities offered hereby. The Underwriter may, but is not obligated to, retain other brokers or dealers to act as a sub-agents or selected dealers that are qualified to offer and sell the shares and that are members of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.

 

We do not intend to close this offering unless we sell at least a minimum number of Ordinary Share, at the price per Ordinary Share set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, to result in sufficient proceeds to list our Class A Ordinary Shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market. We plan to apply to list our Class A Ordinary Shares (including any over-subscription shares sold, if any) on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “HKIT”. Because this is a best efforts offering, the Underwriter does not have an obligation to purchase any securities, and, as a result, we may not be able to sell the minimum number of Class A Ordinary Shares. The offering may close or terminate, as the case may be. We expect to conduct the initial closing of this offering once we have raised the minimum offering amount of [●]. Thereafter, we may conduct additional closing until the maximum offering amount of [●] (or [●] in the event that the over-subscription allowance is fully exercised by the Underwriter ) is raised or we decide in our sole direction to terminate the offering. On the initial and any subsequent closing date, the following will occur:

 

  we will receive funds in the amount of the aggregate purchase price of the shares being sold by us on such closing date;
     
  we will cause to be delivered the Class A Ordinary Shares being sold on such closing date in book-entry form or via DWAC; and
     
  we will pay the Underwriter their commissions.

 

The offering will close or terminate, as the case may be, upon the earlier of: (i) a date mutually acceptable to us and the Underwriter after the minimum offering amount of our offering is raised, (ii) such time when maximum offering is raised; or (iii) [90] days from the effective date (the “Effective Date”) of the Registration Statement (and for a period of up to 90 additional days if extended by agreement of the Company and the Underwriter) (the “Termination Date”). One or more closings may be conducted after the minimum amount is sold and prior to the Termination Date. In addition, in the event that the maximum amount has been met on or prior to the Termination Date, the Underwriter may exercise the over-subscription option on or prior to the Termination Date to extend the offering for an additional 45 days (the “Final Termination Date”).

 

Pursuant to an escrow agreement among us, the Underwriter and [●] (the “Escrow Agent”), as escrow agent, until at least [●] Class A Ordinary Shares are sold, all funds received in payment for securities sold in this offering will be required to be submitted by subscribers to a non-interest bearing escrow account with the Escrow Agent and will be held by the Escrow Agent for such account. There will be a minimum subscription of $[●], which may be waived by Company. The Underwriter and we shall require all investor checks for payment for the securities to be made payable to “[●]” All subscription agreements and checks should be delivered to [●], Attention: [●]. Failure to do so will result in checks being returned to the investor who submitted the check. The investors will have sole claim to the proceeds held in trust prior to the receipt of the minimum offering proceeds. The funds are held for the benefit of the investors until the minimum is reached. Prior to reaching the minimum claims may not be reached by creditors of the Company. If the Underwriter does not sell at least [●] Class A Ordinary Shares by [●], all funds will be returned to the investors in this offering by noon of the next business day after the termination of the offering without charge, interest or deduction. If this offering completes, then on the closing date, net proceeds will be delivered to us and we will issue the Class A Ordinary Shares to purchasers. Unless purchasers instruct us otherwise, we will deliver the Class A Ordinary Shares electronically upon receipt of purchaser funds to the accounts of those purchasers who hold accounts at the Underwriter, or elsewhere, as specified by the purchaser, as soon as practical upon the closing of the offering. Alternately, purchasers who do not carry an account at the Underwriter may request that the shares be held in book-entry at the Company’s transfer agent, or may be issued in book-entry at the Company’s transfer agent and subsequently delivered electronically to the purchasers’ respective brokerage account upon request of the purchasers.

  

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Discounts, Commissions and Expenses

 

The Underwriter will collectively receive an underwriting commission equal to between $[●] in the case of a minimum offering and $[●] in the case of a maximum offering, representing six percent (6%) of the first $10,000,000 and five and one half percent (5.5%) of any amount in excess thereof of the gross proceeds to be raised in this offering.

 

The table below shows, for each of the minimum and maximum offering amount (excluding the over-subscription allowance), the per share and total commissions that we will pay to the Underwriter.

 

   

Minimum offering
amount

 

Maximum offering
amount

    Per Ordinary
Share
  Total   Per Ordinary
Share
  Total
Commissions to the Underwriter (6% of the first $10,000,000 and 5.5% of any amount in excess thereof of the gross proceeds) for sales to investors introduced by the Underwriter   US$   US$   US$   US$

 

In addition, the Underwriter will have an over-subscription allowance to sell up to an additional [●]% of the offering amount, or an additional [●] Class A Ordinary Shares for $[●] of original gross proceeds in this offering. This over-subscription allowance may be exercised in whole or in part through [●].

 

In addition to the cash commission, we will also reimburse the Underwriter for the full amount of its reasonable out-of-pocket expenses not to exceed $120,000 (including reasonable fees and expenses of its legal counsel, which shall not exceed $75,000) incurred by the Underwriter in connection with this offering. We will also be responsible for a financial advisory fee of $100,000. As of the date of this prospectus, we have advanced the Underwriter its reasonable out-of-pocket expenses in an amount of $42,500. In addition, an advisory fee of $25,000 has been paid previously as an advance expense against out-of-pocket accountable expenses that the Company and Boustead anticipate will be incurred. Upon the Company’s filing of an application to list its Ordinary Shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market and upon the closing of the Offering, the Company shall pay the Underwriter an advisory fee of $25,000 and $50,000, respectively. The above advances will be reimbursed to us to the extent not actually incurred.

 

We estimate that the total expenses of the offering, including registration, filing and listing fees, printing fees and legal and accounting expenses, but excluding the Underwriter’s fees and commissions, will be approximately $[●], all of which are payable by us.

 

The Underwriter intends to offer our Class A Ordinary Shares to their retail customers only in states in which we are permitted to offer our Class A Ordinary Shares . We have relied on an exemption to the blue sky registration requirements afforded to “covered securities.” Securities listed on the Nasdaq Capital Market are “covered securities.” If we are unable to continue meeting the Nasdaq Capital Market’s listing standards, then we would be unable to rely on the covered securities exemption to blue sky registration requirements and we would need to register the offering in each state in which we plan to sell shares.

 

Underwriter’s Warrants 

 

We have agreed to issue to our Underwriter warrants to purchase the number of Class A Ordinary Shares in the aggregate equal to 6% of the gross proceeds received by the Company from the Closing. The warrants will be exercisable at any time, and from time to time, in whole or in part, within two and a half (2.5) years from the issuance. The warrants are exercisable at a per share price equal to 100% of the offering price of the Class A Ordinary Shares. The warrants are also exercisable on a cashless basis. We will register the shares underlying the underwriter warrants and will file all necessary undertakings in connection therewith. Pursuant to FINRA Rule 5110(g), the underwriter warrants and any shares issued upon exercise of the underwriter warrants shall not be sold, transferred, assigned, pledged, or hypothecated, or be the subject of any hedging, short sale, derivative, put or call transaction that would result in the effective economic disposition of the securities by any person for a period of 180 days immediately following the date of effectiveness or commencement of sales of this offering, except the transfer of any security: (i) by operation of law or by reason of our reorganization; (ii) to any FINRA member firm participating in the offering and the officers or partners thereof, if all securities so transferred remain subject to the lock-up restriction set forth above for the remainder of the time period; (iii) if the aggregate amount of our securities held by the Underwriter or related persons do not exceed 1% of the securities being offered; (iv) that is beneficially owned on a pro-rata basis by all equity owners of an investment fund, provided that no participating member manages or otherwise directs investments by the fund and the participating members in the aggregate do not own more than 10% of the equity in the fund; or (v) the exercise or conversion of any security, if all securities remain subject to the lock-up restriction set forth above for the remainder of the time period. In addition, the warrants provide for piggyback registration rights for the underlying ordinary shares. The piggyback registration rights will not be greater than seven years from the effective date of the offering in compliance with FINRA Rule 5110(f)(2)(G)(v). 

  

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Lock-Up Agreements

 

We and each of our officers, directors, and all existing shareholders, agreed that, subject to certain exceptions, we will not without the prior written consent of the Underwriter, for a period of 180 days after the commencement date of the trading of the Class A Ordinary Shares of which this prospectus is a part (the “restricted period”):

 

  offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, lend, or otherwise transfer or dispose of, directly or indirectly, any Class A Ordinary Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Ordinary Shares;
     
  enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Class A Ordinary Shares; or
     
  file any registration statement with the SEC relating to the offering of any Class A Ordinary Shares or any securities convertible into or exercisable or exchangeable for Class A Ordinary Shares (other than a registration statement on Form S-8).

 

The Underwriter may in its sole discretion and at any time without notice release some or all of the shares subject to lock-up agreements prior to the expiration of the lock-up period. When determining whether or not to release shares from the lock-up agreements, the Underwriter will consider, among other factors, the security holder’s reasons for requesting the release, the number of shares for which the release is being requested and market conditions at the time.

 

Price Stabilization

 

The Underwriter will be required to comply with the Securities Act and the Exchange Act, including without limitation, Rule 10b-5 and Regulation M under the Exchange Act. These rules and regulations may limit the timing of purchases and sales of shares of capital stock by the Underwriter acting as principal. Under these rules and regulations, the Underwriter:

 

  may not engage in any stabilization activity in connection with our securities; and
     
  may not bid for or purchase any of our securities or attempt to induce any person to purchase any of our securities, other than as permitted under the Exchange Act, until it has completed its participation in the distribution.

 

Determination of Offering Price

 

Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for the Class A Ordinary Shares. The public offering price of the shares we are offering will be determined by us in consultation with the Underwriter based on discussions with potential investors in light of a number of factors, including:

 

  the information set forth in this prospectus and otherwise available to the Underwriter;
     
  our prospects and the history and prospects for the industry in which we compete;
     
  an assessment of our management;

  

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  our prospects for future earnings;
     
  the general condition of the securities markets at the time of this offering;
     
  the recent market prices of, and demand for, publicly traded securities of generally comparable companies; and
     
  other factors deemed relevant by the Underwriter and us.

 

The estimated initial public offering price range set forth on the cover page of this preliminary prospectus is subject to change as a result of market conditions and other factors. Neither we nor the Underwriter can assure investors that an active trading market will develop for our Class A Ordinary Shares, or that the shares will trade in the public market at or above the initial public offering price.

 

Electronic Offer, Sale and Distribution of Class A Ordinary Shares

 

A prospectus in electronic format may be made available on the websites maintained by the Underwriter. In addition, Class A Ordinary Shares may be sold by the Underwriter to securities dealers who resell Class A Ordinary Shares to online brokerage account holders. Other than the prospectus in electronic format, the information on the Underwriter’s website and any information contained in any other website maintained by the Underwriter is not part of the prospectus or the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, has not been approved and/or endorsed by us or the Underwriter in its capacity as Underwriter and should not be relied upon by investors.

 

Indemnification

 

We have agreed to indemnify the Underwriter against liabilities relating to the offering arising under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act and to contribute to payments that the Underwriter may be required to make for these liabilities.

 

Selling Restrictions

 

No action has been taken in any jurisdiction (except in the United States) that would permit a public offering of the Class A Ordinary Shares, or the possession, circulation or distribution of this prospectus or any other material relating to us or the Class A Ordinary Shares, where action for that purpose is required. Accordingly, the Class A Ordinary Shares may not be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, and neither this prospectus nor any other offering material or advertisements in connection with the Class A Ordinary Shares may be distributed or published, in or from any country or jurisdiction except in compliance with any applicable rules and regulations of any such country or jurisdiction.

 

Australia.   This prospectus is not a product disclosure statement, prospectus or other type of disclosure document for the purposes of Corporations Act 2001 (Commonwealth of Australia) (the “Act”) and does not purport to include the information required of a product disclosure statement, prospectus or other disclosure document under Chapter 6D.2 of the Act. No product disclosure statement, prospectus, disclosure document, offering material or advertisement in relation to the offer of the Class A Ordinary Shares has been or will be lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission or the Australian Securities Exchange.

 

Accordingly, (1) the offer of the Class A Ordinary Shares under this prospectus may only be made to persons: (i) to whom it is lawful to offer the Class A Ordinary Shares without disclosure to investors under Chapter 6D.2 of the Act under one or more exemptions set out in Section 708 of the Act, and (ii) who are “wholesale clients” as that term is defined in section 761G of the Act, (2) this prospectus may only be made available in Australia to persons as set forth in clause (1) above, and (3) by accepting this offer, the offeree represents that the offeree is such a person as set forth in clause (1) above, and the offeree agrees not to sell or offer for sale any of the Class A Ordinary Shares sold to the offeree within 12 months after their issue except as otherwise permitted under the Act.

 

Canada.   The Class A Ordinary Shares may not be offered, sold or distributed, directly or indirectly, in any province or territory of Canada other than the provinces of Ontario and Quebec or to or for the benefit of any resident of any province or territory of Canada other than the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, and only on a basis that is pursuant to an exemption from the requirement to file a prospectus in such province, and only through a dealer duly registered under the applicable securities laws of such province or in accordance with an exemption from the applicable registered dealer requirements.

  

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Cayman Islands.   This prospectus does not constitute a public offer of the Class A Ordinary Shares, whether by way of sale or subscription, in the Cayman Islands. The Underwriter has represented and agreed that it has not offered or sold, and will not offer or sell, directly or indirectly, any Class A Ordinary Shares to any member of the public in the Cayman Islands.

 

European Economic Area.   In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area that has implemented the Prospectus Directive, or a Relevant Member State, from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State, or the Relevant Implementation Date, an offer of the Class A Ordinary Shares to the public may not be made in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the Class A Ordinary Shares that has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and the competent authority in that Relevant Member State has been notified, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the Relevant Implementation Date, make an offer of the Ordinary Share to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time,

 

  to legal entities that are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;
     
  to any legal entity that has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year, (2) a total balance sheet of more than €43,000,000, and (3) an annual net turnover of more than €50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts;
     
  to fewer than 100 natural or legal persons (other than qualified investors as defined in the Prospectus Directive; or
     
  in any other circumstances that do not require the publication by the company of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive;

 

provided that no such offer of Class A Ordinary Shares shall result in a requirement for the publication by the company of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive.

 

For purposes of the above provision, the expression “an offer of Class A Ordinary Shares to the public” in relation to any Class A Ordinary Shares in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the Class A Ordinary Shares to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the Class A Ordinary Shares, as the same may be varied in that Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Member State, and the expression “Prospectus Directive” means Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.

 

Hong Kong.   The Class A Ordinary Shares may not be offered or sold by means of this document or any other document other than (i) in circumstances that do not constitute an offer or invitation to the public within the meaning of the Companies Ordinance (Cap.32, Laws of Hong Kong) or the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap.571, Laws of Hong Kong), or (ii) to “professional investors” within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap.571, Laws of Hong Kong) and any rules made thereunder, or (iii) in other circumstances that do not result in the document being a “prospectus” within the meaning of the Companies Ordinance (Cap.32, Laws of Hong Kong), and no advertisement, invitation or document relating to the Class A Ordinary Shares may be issued or may be in the possession of any person for the purpose of issue (in each case whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere), that is directed at, or the contents of which are likely to be accessed or read by, the public in Hong Kong (except if permitted to do so under the laws of Hong Kong) other than with respect to Class A Ordinary Shares which are or are intended to be disposed of only to persons outside Hong Kong or only to “professional investors” within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap.571, Laws of Hong Kong) and any rules made thereunder.

  

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Israel.    In the State of Israel, the Class A Ordinary Shares offered hereby may not be offered to any person or entity other than the following:

 

  a fund for joint investments in trust (i.e., mutual fund), as such term is defined in the Law for Joint Investments in Trust, 5754-1994, or a management company of such a fund;
     
  a provident fund as defined in Section 47(a)(2) of the Income Tax Ordinance of the State of Israel, or a management company of such a fund;
     
  an insurer, as defined in the Law for Oversight of Insurance Transactions, 5741-1981, a banking entity or satellite entity, as such terms are defined in the Banking Law (Licensing), 5741-1981, other than a joint services company, acting for their own account or for the account of investors of the type listed in Section 15A(b) of the Securities Law 1968;
     
  a company that is licensed as a portfolio manager, as such term is defined in Section 8(b) of the Law for the Regulation of Investment Advisors and Portfolio Managers, 5755-1995, acting on its own account or for the account of investors of the type listed in Section 15A(b) of the Securities Law 1968;
     
  a company that is licensed as an investment advisor, as such term is defined in Section 7(c) of the Law for the Regulation of Investment Advisors and Portfolio Managers, 5755-1995, acting on its own account;
     
  a company that is a member of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, acting on its own account or for the account of investors of the type listed in Section 15A(b) of the Securities Law 1968;
     
  an underwriter fulfilling the conditions of Section 56(c) of the Securities Law, 5728-1968;
     
  a project capital fund (defined as an entity primarily involved in investments in companies which, at the time of investment, (i) are primarily engaged in research and development or manufacture of new technological products or processes and (ii) involve above-average risk);
     
  an entity primarily engaged in capital markets activities in which all of the equity owners meet one or more of the above criteria; and
     
  an entity, other than an entity formed for the purpose of purchasing the Class A Ordinary Shares in this offering, in which the shareholders equity (including pursuant to foreign accounting rules, international accounting regulations and U.S. generally accepted accounting rules, as defined in the Securities Law Regulations (Preparation of Annual Financial Statements), 1993) is in excess of NIS 250 million.

 

Japan.   The Underwriter will not offer or sell any of the Class A Ordinary Shares directly or indirectly in Japan or to, or for the benefit of any Japanese person or to others, for re-offering or re-sale directly or indirectly in Japan or to any Japanese person, except, in each case, pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of, and otherwise in compliance with, the Securities and Exchange Law of Japan and any other applicable laws and regulations of Japan. For purposes of this paragraph, “Japanese person” means any person resident in Japan, including any corporation or other entity organized under the laws of Japan.

 

People’s Republic of China.   This prospectus may not be circulated or distributed in the PRC and the Class A Ordinary Shares may not be offered or sold, and will not offer or sell to any person for re-offering or resale directly or indirectly to any resident of the PRC except pursuant to applicable laws and regulations of the PRC. For the purpose of this paragraph, PRC does not include Taiwan and the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau.

 

Singapore.   This prospectus has not been registered as a prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Accordingly, this prospectus and any other document or material in connection with the offer or sale, or invitation for subscription or purchase, of the Class A Ordinary Shares may not be circulated or distributed, nor may the Class A Ordinary Shares be offered or sold, or be made the subject of an invitation for subscription or purchase, whether directly or indirectly, to persons in Singapore other than (i) to an institutional investor under Section 274 of the Securities and Futures Act, Chapter 289 of Singapore, or the SFA, (ii) to a relevant person, or any person pursuant to Section 275(1A), and in accordance with the conditions, specified in Section 275 of the SFA, or (iii) otherwise pursuant to, and in accordance with the conditions of, any other applicable provision of the SFA.

  

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Where the Class A Ordinary Shares are subscribed or purchased under Section 275 by a relevant person that is:

 

(a) a corporation (that is not an accredited investor) the sole business of which is to hold investments and the entire share capital of which is owned by one or more individuals, each of whom is an accredited investor; or

 

(b) a trust (where the trustee is not an accredited investor) whose sole purpose is to hold investments and each beneficiary is an accredited investor, shares, debentures and units of shares and debentures of that corporation or the beneficiaries’ rights and interest in that trust shall not be transferable for six months after that corporation or that trust has acquired the Class A Ordinary Shares under Section 275 except:

 

(1) to an institutional investor (for corporations, under 274 of the SFA) or to a relevant person defined in Section 275(2) of the SFA, or to any person pursuant to an offer that is made on terms that such shares,

 

(2) debentures and units of shares and debentures of that corporation or such rights and interest in that trust are acquired at a consideration of not less than S$200,000 (or its equivalent in a foreign currency) for each transaction, whether such amount is to be paid for in cash or by exchange of securities or other assets, and further for corporations, in accordance with the conditions specified in Section 275 of the SFA;

 

(3) where no consideration is or will be given for the transfer; or

 

(4) where the transfer is by operation of law.

 

Taiwan.   The Class A Ordinary Shares have not been and will not be registered or filed with, or approved by, the Financial Supervisory Commission of Taiwan pursuant to relevant securities laws and regulations and may not be offered or sold in Taiwan through a public offering or in circumstances which constitute an offer within the meaning of the Securities and Exchange Act of Taiwan or relevant laws and regulations that require a registration, filing or approval of the Financial Supervisory Commission of Taiwan. No person or entity in Taiwan has been authorized to offer or sell the Class A Ordinary Shares in Taiwan.

 

Switzerland.   The Class A Ordinary Shares will not be publicly offered in Switzerland and will not be listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (“SIX”) or on any other stock exchange or regulated trading facility in Switzerland. This prospectus has been prepared without regard to the disclosure standards for issuance prospectuses under art. 652a or art. 1156 of the Swiss Code of Obligations or the disclosure standards for listing prospectuses under art. 27 ff. of the SIX Listing Rules or the listing rules of any other stock exchange or regulated trading facility in Switzerland.

 

Neither this prospectus nor any other offering or marketing material relating to our company or the Class A Ordinary Shares have been or will be filed with or approved by any Swiss regulatory authority. In particular, this prospectus will not be filed with, and the offer of the Class A Ordinary Shares will not be supervised by, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, and the offer of the Class A Ordinary Shares has not been and will not be authorized under the Swiss Federal Act on Collective Investment Schemes, or the CISA. The investor protection afforded to acquirers of interests in collective investment schemes under the CISA does not extend to acquirers of the Class A Ordinary Shares.

 

United Arab Emirates and Dubai International Financial Centre.   This offering of the Class A Ordinary Shares has not been approved or licensed by the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates, or the UAE, the Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority or any other relevant licensing authority in the UAE, including any licensing authority incorporated under the laws and regulations of any of the free zones established and operating in the territory of the UAE, in particular the Dubai Financial Services Authority, or the DFSA, a regulatory authority of the Dubai International Financial Centre, or the DIFC. This offering does not constitute a public offer of securities in the UAE, DIFC and/or any other free zone in accordance with the Commercial Companies Law, Federal Law No. 8 of 1984 (as amended), DFSA Offered Securities Rules and the Dubai International Financial Exchange Listing Rules, respectively, or otherwise.

 

The Class A Ordinary Shares may not be offered to the public in the UAE and/or any of the free zones. The Class A Ordinary Shares may be offered and this prospectus may be issued, only to a limited number of investors in the UAE or any of its free zones who qualify as sophisticated investors under the relevant laws and regulations of the UAE or the free zone concerned. The Class A Ordinary Shares will not be offered, sold, transferred or delivered to the public in the UAE or any of its free zones.

 

United Kingdom.   An offer of the Class A Ordinary Shares may not be made to the public in the United Kingdom within the meaning of Section 102B of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended, or the FSMA, except to legal entities that are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities or otherwise in circumstances that do not require the publication by the company of a prospectus pursuant to the Prospectus Rules of the Financial Services Authority, or the FSA.

 

An invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of Section 21 of FSMA) may only be communicated to persons who have professional experience in matters relating to investments falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 or in circumstances in which Section 21 of FSMA does not apply to the company.

 

All applicable provisions of the FSMA with respect to anything done by the Underwriter in relation to the Class A Ordinary Shares must be complied with in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.

  

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LEGAL MATTERS

 

The validity of the Class A Ordinary Shares and certain other legal matters as to United States Federal and New York State law and U.S. federal income tax laws in connection with this offering will be passed upon for us by Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li LLC. The Underwriter is being represented by Ortoli Rosenstadt LLP with respect to legal matters of United States federal and New York State law. The validity of the Class A Ordinary Shares offered in this offering and certain other legal matters as to Cayman Islands law will be passed upon for us by Maples and Calder, our counsel as to Cayman Islands law. Legal matters as to PRC law will be passed upon for us by Jingtian & Gongcheng.

 

CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

 

None.

 

EXPERTS

 

The consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2017 and 2016 included in this prospectus have been so included in reliance on the report of UHY LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting. The office of UHY LLP is located at 1185 Avenue of Americas, 38th Floor, New York, NY 10036.

 

INTERESTS OF NAMED EXPERTS AND COUNSEL

 

No expert or counsel named in this prospectus as having prepared or certified any part of this prospectus or having given an opinion upon the validity of the securities being registered or upon other legal matters in connection with the registration or offering of the Class A Ordinary Shares was employed on a contingency basis, or had, or is to receive, in connection with the offering, a substantial interest, direct or indirect, in the registrant. Nor was any such person connected with the registrant as a promoter, managing or principal Underwriter, voting trustee, director, officer, or employee.

 

DISCLOSURE OF COMMISSION POSITION ON INDEMNIFICATION

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act, may be permitted to our directors, officers or persons controlling us, we have been advised that it is the SEC’s opinion that such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in such act and is, therefore, unenforceable.

 

WHERE YOU CAN FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

 

We have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form F-1, including relevant exhibits and schedules under the Securities Act, covering the Class A Ordinary Shares offered by this prospectus. You should refer to our registration statements and their exhibits and schedules if you would like to find out more about us and about the Class A Ordinary Shares. This prospectus summarizes material provisions of contracts and other documents that we refer you to. Since the prospectus may not contain all the information that you may find important, you should review the full text of these documents.

 

Immediately upon the completion of this offering, we will be subject to periodic reporting and other informational requirements of the Exchange Act, as applicable to foreign private issuers. Accordingly, we will be required to file reports, including annual reports on Form 20-F, and other information with the SEC. As a foreign private issuer, we are exempt from the rules of the Exchange Act prescribing the furnishing and content of proxy statements to shareholders under the federal proxy rules contained in Sections 14(a), (b) and (c) of the Exchange Act, and our executive officers, directors and principal shareholders are exempt from the reporting and short-swing profit recovery provisions contained in Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

 

The registration statements, reports and other information so filed can be inspected and copied at the public reference facilities maintained by the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. You can request copies of these documents upon payment of a duplicating fee, by writing to the SEC. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the operation of the public reference rooms. The SEC also maintains a website that contains reports, proxy statements and other information about issuers, such as us, who file electronically with the SEC. The address of that website is  http://www.sec.gov . The information on that website is not a part of this prospectus.

 

No dealers, salesperson or other person is authorized to give any information or to represent anything not contained in this prospectus. You must not rely on any unauthorized information or representations. This prospectus is an offer to sell only the securities offered hereby, but only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so. The information contained in this prospectus is current only as of its date.

  

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INDEX TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

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INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF HITEK GLOBAL INC.  
   
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm F-2
   
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2017 and 2016 F-3
   
Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income for the Years Ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 F-4
   
Consolidated Statements of Changes in Shareholders’ Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 F-5
   
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 F-6
   
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements F-7
   
INDEX TO UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS  
   
Unaudited condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets as of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 F-25
   
Unaudited condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 F-26
   
Unaudited condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Six Months Ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 F-27
   
Notes to Unaudited condensed Consolidated Financial Statements F-28

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

To the Board of Directors and Shareholders of Hitek Global Inc.

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Hitek Global Inc. (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2017 and 2016, and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), changes in Shareholders’ equity, and cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2017, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the consolidated financial statements). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2017 and 2016, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for each of the years in the two- year period ended December 31, 2017, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These consolidated financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s consolidated financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the consolidated financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the consolidated financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion. 

 

As described in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements, the Company’s 2018 Reorganization represented transactions of entities under common control, the effects of which have been retrospectively applied to the accompanying consolidated financial statements.

 

As described in Note 17 to the consolidated financial statements, the consolidated financial statements have been restated for an error in the application of accounting principles.

 

/s/ UHY LLP

 

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2016. New York, New York

 

July 13, 2018, except for Note 2, Note 12, and Note 17, as to which the date is August 31, 2018

 

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HITEK GLOBAL INC.

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

 

    As of December 31,  
    2017     2016  
             
Assets            
Current assets            
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 867,570     $ 215,064  
Short-term investments     1,771,200       1,725,283  
Accounts receivable, net     869,326       177,301  
Accounts receivable-related parties, net     893,085       940,012  
Advances to suppliers, net     1,491,616       35,880  
Inventories, net     277,569       504,052  
Deferred income tax assets-current     100,177       475,632  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets     397,760       143,824  
Due from related parties     215,173       113,754  
Total current assets     6,883,476       4,330,802  
                 
Non-current assets                
Property and equipment, net     252,907       262,788  
Total non-current assets     252,907       262,788  
Total Assets   $ 7,136,383     $ 4,593,590  
                 
Liabilities and Equity                
Current Liabilities                
Accounts payable   $ 383,521     $ 569,901  
Deferred revenue     877,607       785,879  
Taxes payable     272,925       89,189  
Due to related parties     168,385       655,176  
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities     253,497       145,031  
Total Current Liabilities     1,955,935       2,245,176  
Total Liabilities     1,955,935       2,245,176  
                 
Commitments and Contingencies                
                 
Shareholders’ Equity                
Ordinary Shares (par value $0.0001 per share, 500,000,000 shares authorized; 10,987,679 and 10,987,679 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2017 and 2016, respectively*)     1,099       1,099  
Additional paid-in capital     2,628,356       2,179,290  
Statutory reserve     312,993       99,206  
Retained earnings (Accumulated deficit)     1,850,759       (70,693 )
Accumulated other comprehensive income     387,241       139,512  
Total Shareholders’ Equity     5,180,448       2,348,414  
                 
Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity   $ 7,136,383     $ 4,593,590  

 

*On November 3, 2017 and December 16, 2017, the Company issued an aggregate of 10,987,679 ordinary shares in connection with the reorganization (Note 1). All references to numbers of ordinary shares and per-share data in the accompanying consolidated financial statements have been adjusted to reflect such issuance of shares on a retrospective basis.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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HITEK GLOBAL INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

 

    Years Ended
December 31,
 
    2017     2016  
             
Revenues            
Hardware   $ 2,034,630     $ 3,331,413  
Hardware - related parties     474,495       849,538  
Tax devices and service     2,290,746       2,455,488  
Software     1,020,154       208,497  
Software - related party     285,821       50,276  
IT services     781,529       -  
Total revenues     6,887,375       6,895,212  
Cost of revenues     (3,207,554 )     (5,037,261 )
Gross profit     3,679,821       1,857,951  
                 
Operating expenses:                
General and administrative expenses     1,049,836       1,346,329  
Selling expenses     32,262       98,422  
Total operating expenses     1,082,098       1,444,751  
                 
Operating income     2,597,723       413,200  
                 
Other income (expense)                
Government subsidies     37,221       98,444  
Net investment income (loss)     2,927       (22,492 )
Financial expense, net     (4,024 )     (5,173 )
Other, net     -       1,340  
Total other income     36,124       72,119  
                 
Net income before provision for income taxes     2,633,847       485,319  
Income tax expense     498,608       105,298  
                 
Net income   $ 2,135,239     $ 380,021  
Comprehensive income                
Net income   $ 2,135,239     $ 380,021  
Foreign currency translation income (loss)     247,729       (115,231 )
                 
Comprehensive income   $ 2,382,968     $ 264,790  
Earnings per ordinary share*                
– Basic and diluted   $ 0.19     $ 0.03  
                 
Weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding*                
–Basic and diluted     10,987,679       10,987,679  

 

*On November 3, 2017 and December 16, 2017, the Company issued an aggregate of 10,987,679 ordinary shares in connection with the reorganization (Note 1). All references to numbers of ordinary shares and per-share data in the accompanying consolidated financial statements have been adjusted to reflect such issuance of shares on a retrospective basis.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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HITEK GLOBAL INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN EQUITY

 

    Ordinary Shares*     Additional           Retained earnings     Accumulated other        
    Number of shares     Amount     paid-in capital     Statutory reserve     (Accumulated deficit)      comprehensive income (loss)     Total Equity  
Balance as of January 1, 2016     10,987,679     $ 1,099     $ 733,063     $ 65,121     $ (416,629 )   $ 254,743     $ 637,397  
Increase capital in HiTek (VIE)     -       -       1,446,227       -       -       -       1,446,227  
Foreign currency translation     -       -       -       -       -       (115,231 )     (115,231 )
Net income     -       -       -       -       380,021       -       380,021  
Appropriation of Statutory reserve     -       -       -       34,085       (34,085 )     -       -  
Balance as of December 31, 2016     10,987,679     $ 1,099     $ 2,179,290     $ 99,206     $ (70,693 )   $ 139,512     $ 2,348,414  
Increase capital in HiTek (VIE)     -       -       449,066       -       -       -       449,066  
Foreign currency translation     -       -       -       -       -       247,729       247,729  
Net income     -       -       -       -       2,135,239       -       2,135,239  
Appropriation of Statutory reserve     -       -       -       213,787       (213,787 )     -       -  
Balance as of December 31, 2017     10,987,679     $ 1,099     $ 2,628,356     $ 312,993     $ 1,850,759     $ 387,241     $ 5,180,448  

 

*On November 3, 2017 and December 16, 2017, the Company issued an aggregate of 10,987,679 ordinary shares in connection with the reorganization (Note 1). All references to numbers of ordinary shares and per-share data in the accompanying consolidated financial statements have been adjusted to reflect such issuance of shares on a retrospective basis.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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HITEK GLOBAL INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

    Years Ended
December 31,
 
    2017     2016  
             
Operating Activities            
Net income   $ 2,135,239     $ 380,021  
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:                
Depreciation and amortization     30,776       31,582  
Loss on disposal of property, plant and equipment     -       (1,225 )
Net investment (income) loss     (2,927 )     22,492  
Provision for doubtful accounts     11,258       5,886  
Provision for obsolete inventories     18,057       5,195  
Deferred tax asset     392,224       1,669  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:                
Short-term investment     70,621       (1,415,235 )
Accounts receivable     (659,538 )     492,367  
Accounts receivable from related parties     106,131       (905,446 )
Advances to suppliers     (1,399,686 )     (28,683 )
Inventory, net     232,624       (115,985 )
Prepaid expenses and other current assets     (240,602 )     143,851  
Due from related party     (90,239 )     97,843  
Accounts payable     (216,351 )     (289,881 )
Deferred revenue     37,321       123,677  
Taxes payable     171,063       (203,698 )
Due to related parties     (511,030 )     684,842  
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities     94,993       (431,803 )
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities     179,934       (1,402,531 )
                 
Investing Activities                
Purchases of property and equipment     (4,223 )     (4,864 )
Proceeds from disposal of property and equipment     -       5,870  
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities     (4,223 )     1,006  
                 
Financing Activities:                
Proceeds from increase of capital in HiTek     449,066       1,446,227  
Net cash provided by financing activities     449,066       1,446,227  
                 
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents     27,729       (8,316 )
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents     652,506       36,386  
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year     215,064       178,678  
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year   $ 867,570     $ 215,064  
                 
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:                
Cash paid for income taxes   $ 46,210     $ 234,635  

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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HITEK GLOBAL INC.

Notes to CONSOLIDATED Financial Statements

 

NOTE 1 – NATURE OF OPERATIONS

 

HiTek Global Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands on November 3, 2017 in anticipation of an initial public offering. The Company through its variable interest entity (“VIE”) and VIE’s subsidiaries provide hardware sales, software sales, Information Technology (“IT”) maintenance services and tax devices and services in the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”).

 

The Company issued an aggregate of 10,987,679 ordinary shares to Fortune Enterprise Holdings Limited, an entity 100% owned by Shenping Yin, and eight other shareholders on November 3, 2017 and December 16, 2017. Of the 10,987,679 ordinary shares, 74.55% was owned by Fortune Enterprise Holdings Limited. On November 20, 2017, the Company formed its wholly-owned subsidiary, HiTek Hong Kong Limited (“HiTek HK”) in Hong Kong. On March 15, 2018, HiTek HK formed its wholly-owned subsidiary, Tian Dahai (Xiamen) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (“WFOE”) in PRC.

 

Xiamen Hengda HiTek Computer Network Co., Ltd. (“HiTek”), was established in January 1996 by Shenping Yin, Xiaoyang Huang (the spouse of Shenping Yin) and nine other shareholders, who held 29.83%, 44.74% and 25.43% of its equity interests, respectively, in Xiamen, Fujian Province, PRC pursuant to PRC laws. The Company entered into a series of contractual arrangements with HiTek which were effective in March 2018, and its equity holders through WFOE to obtain control and became the primary beneficiary of HiTek. 

 

In September 1999, Xiamen Huasheng HiTek Computer Network Co., Ltd (“Huasheng”), a fully owned subsidiary of HiTek was incorporated under the laws of the PRC.

 

In September 2017, Huoerguosi Hengda Information Technology Co., Ltd (“Huoerguosi”), a fully owned subsidiary of HiTek was established in XinJiang Province, PRC.

 

 

As all the above mentioned companies presented were under common control, the series of contractual arrangements between the Company and HiTek in March 2018 constituted a reorganization under common control and were required to be retrospectively applied to the consolidated financial statements at their historical amounts. The consolidated financial statements have been prepared as if the existing corporate structure had been in existence throughout all periods. This includes a retrospective presentation for all equity related disclosures, including share and per share, which have been revised to reflect the effects of the reorganization.

 

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NOTE 2 – BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

Basis of Presentation

 

The accompanying consolidated financial statements and related notes have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and pursuant to the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).

 

Basis of Consolidation

 

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the financial statements of the Company, its wholly-owned subsidiaries and VIE companies, including HiTek, Huasheng and Huoerguosi. All inter-company transactions and balances have been eliminated upon consolidation.

 

VIE Agreements with HiTek

 

Due to PRC legal restrictions or foreign ownership in certain sectors, neither we nor our subsidiaries own any equity interest in HiTek. Instead, WFOE, HiTek and HiTek’s shareholders entered into a series of contractual arrangements (“VIE Agreements”) on March 31, 2018. The VIE agreements are designed to provide WFOE with the power, rights and obligations equivalent in all material respects to those it would possess as the sole equity holder of HiTek, including absolute control rights and the rights to the assets, property and net income of HiTek. Accordingly, the Company is considered the primary beneficiary of VIE and has consolidated the VIE and the VIE’s subsidiaries’ assets, liabilities, results of operations, and cash flows in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.

 

Each of the VIE Agreements is described in detail below:

 

Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement

 

Pursuant to the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement between HiTek and WFOE, WFOE provides HiTek with technical support, consulting services and other management services relating to its day-to-day business operations and management, on an exclusive basis. The Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement has come into effect as of March 31, 2018. For services rendered to HiTek by WFOE under this agreement, WFOE is entitled to collect a service fee that shall be paid per quarter of 100% of HiTek’s quarterly profit. The term of the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement is ten years unless it is terminated by WFOE with 30-day prior notice.

 

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Equity Interest Pledge Agreement

 

WFOE, HiTek and HiTek shareholders entered into an Equity Interest Pledge Agreement, pursuant to which HiTek shareholders pledged all of their equity interest in HiTek to WFOE in order to guarantee the performance of HiTek’s obligations under the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement as described above. The Equity Interest Pledge Agreement has come into effect as of March 31, 2018. During the term of the pledge, WFOE is entitled to receive any dividends declared on the pledged equity interest of HiTek. The Equity Interest Pledge Agreement ends when all contractual obligations under the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement have been fully performed.

 

Exclusive Equity Interests Purchase Agreement

 

Under the Exclusive Equity Interests Purchase Agreement, the HiTek Shareholders granted WFOE (or its designee) an exclusive option to purchase, to the extent permitted under PRC law, part or all of their equity interests in HiTek. The option price is equal to the capital paid in by the HiTek Shareholders subject to any appraisal or restrictions required by applicable PRC laws and regulations. The Exclusive Equity Interests Purchase Agreement remains effective for a term of ten years and may be renewed at WFOE’s election.

 

Power of Attorney

 

Each shareholder of the HiTek has executed an irrevocable power of attorney in favor of WFOE. Pursuant to this power of attorney, the WFOE has full power and authority to exercise all of such shareholder’s rights with respect to his equity interest in the VIE Companies, including HiTek, Huasheng and Huoerguosi. The power of attorney will remain in force for so long as the shareholder remains a shareholder of HiTek.

 

As of December 31, 2017, there were no transactions in HiTek Global Inc. and HiTek HK besides minimal capital transactions.

 

Use of Estimates

 

The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.

 

Significant accounting estimates reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements include allowance for doubtful accounts, inventory obsolescence, deferred taxes, and the useful lives of property and equipment. Since the use of estimates is an integral component of the financial reporting process, actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

Fair Values of Financial Instruments 

 

The U.S. GAAP accounting standards regarding fair value of financial instruments and related fair value measurements define fair value, establish a three-level valuation hierarchy that requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value.

 

The three levels of inputs are defined as follows:

 

Level 1 inputs to the valuation methodology are quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.

 

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Level 2 inputs to the valuation methodology include quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets, and inputs that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the financial instrument. 

 

Level 3 inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable.

 

ASC 825-10 “Financial Instruments”, allows entities to voluntarily choose to measure certain financial assets and liabilities at fair value (fair value option). The fair value option may be elected on an instrument-by-instrument basis and is irrevocable, unless a new election date occurs. If the fair value option is elected for an instrument, unrealized gains and losses for that instrument should be reported in earnings at each subsequent reporting date. The Company did not elect to apply the fair value option to any outstanding instruments.

 

The carrying amounts reported in the consolidated balance sheets for cash, accounts receivable, accounts receivable – related party, prepaid expenses and other, accounts payable and accrued liabilities, income taxes payable, VAT and other taxes payable, and due to related parties approximate their fair market value based on the short-term maturity of these instruments.

 

The Company’s investments in equity are measured at fair value on a recurring basis consist of various mutual funds and trading securities. The valuation for the Level 1 position is based on quoted prices in active markets. The following table presents information about short-term investments measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of December 31, 2017 and 2016.

 

    As of December 31,  
    2017     2016  
Trading equity securities   $ 341,838     $ 357,353  
Mutual funds     1,429,362       1,367,930  
Total   $ 1,771,200     $ 1,725,283  

 

Earnings Per Share

 

Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing net income by the weighted-average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income by the weighted-average number of ordinary shares and dilutive potential ordinary shares outstanding during the period.

 

For the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, there were no other contracts to issue ordinary shares, such as options, warrants or conversion rights, which would have a dilutive effect on earnings per share.

 

Cash and Cash Equivalents

 

Cash consists of cash on hand and cash in banks. The Company considers all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The Company maintains cash with various financial institutions in the PRC. As of December 31, 2017 and 2016, cash balances held in PRC banks are uninsured. The Company has not experienced any losses in bank accounts during the years under December 31, 2017 and 2016.

 

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Concentrations of Credit Risk

 

Currently, all of the Company’s operations are carried out in the PRC. Accordingly, the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations may be influenced by the political, economic and legal environment in the PRC, and by the general state of the PRC’s economy. The Company’s operations in the PRC are subject to specific considerations and significant risks not typically associated with companies in North America. The Company’s results may be adversely affected by changes in governmental policies with respect to laws and regulations, anti-inflationary measures, currency conversion and remittance abroad, and rates and methods of taxation, among other things.

 

Financial instruments which potentially subject the Company to concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash and cash equivalents, short-term investments, trade accounts receivable, and accounts receivable – related parties and advances to suppliers. A portion of the Company’s sales are credit sales which are to the customers whose ability to pay is dependent upon the industry economics prevailing in these areas; however, concentrations of credit risk with respect to trade accounts receivables is limited due to generally short payment terms. The Company also performs ongoing credit evaluations of its customers to help further reduce credit risk.

 

Short-term Investments

 

Short-term investments consist of trading stock and mutual funds. The Company classifies the stock and mutual funds as trading securities in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 320 “Investments — Debt and Equity Securities.” If a security is acquired with the intent of selling it within hours or days, the security shall be classified as trading securities. 

 

Short-term investments are measured at fair value based on the quoted market prices of the securities as of December 31, 2017 and 2016 in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. Net realized and unrealized holding gains and losses for trading securities are included in Consolidated Statements of Operations.

 

Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

 

Accounts receivable are presented net of an allowance for doubtful accounts. The Company maintains allowances for doubtful accounts for estimated losses. The Company reviews the accounts receivable on a periodic basis and makes general and specific allowances when there is doubt as to the collectability of individual balances. In evaluating the collectability of individual receivable balances, the Company considers many factors, including the age of the balance, a customer’s historical payment history, its current credit-worthiness and current economic trends.

 

Advances to Suppliers, Net

 

Advances to suppliers are the amounts prepaid to suppliers for purchases of inventory and to third party developers for mobile APP development. In evaluating the reserve for doubtful account, the Company mainly considers the age of the balance. As of December 31, 2017 and 2016, advances to suppliers consisted of the following:

 

    As of December 31,  
    2017     2016  
Advances to suppliers   $ 1,493,330     $ 36,651  
Less: reserve for doubtful account     (1,714 )     (771 )
Total   $ 1,491,616     $ 35,880  

 

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Inventories

 

Inventories are stated at the lower of cost (weighted average basis) or net realizable value. The methods of determining inventory costs are used consistently from year to year. Allowance for inventory obsolescence is provided when the market value of certain inventory items are lower than the cost.

 

Property and Equipment

 

Property and equipment are carried at cost and are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the assets. The cost of repairs and maintenance is expensed as incurred; major replacements and improvements are capitalized. When assets are retired or disposed of, the cost and accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts, and any resulting gains or losses are included in income in the year of disposition. The Company examines the possibility of decreases in the value of fixed assets when events or changes in circumstances reflect the fact that their recorded value may not be recoverable.

 

Estimated useful lives are as follows, taking into account the assets’ estimated residual value:

 

Classification Estimated useful life
Furniture and office equipment 2-3 years
Computer equipment 2-3 years
Transportation equipment 5 years
Buildings and improvements 20 years 

 

Impairment of Long-lived Assets

 

In accordance with ASC Topic 360, the Company reviews long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets may not be fully recoverable. The Company recognizes an impairment loss when the sum of expected undiscounted future cash flows is less than the carrying amount of the asset. The amount of impairment is measured as the difference between the asset’s estimated fair value and its book value.  The Company did not record any impairment charge for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016.

 

Deferred Revenue

 

Deferred revenue consists of the annual subscription fees for Golden Tax Disk (defined below) received from customers but the services have not yet been performed. The Company recognizes the subscription amount as revenue on a straight-line basis in accordance with the service periods. Deferred revenue as of December 31, 2017 and 2016 was $877,607 and $785,879, respectively.

 

Revenue Recognition

 

Pursuant to the guidance of ASC Topic 605, the Company recognizes revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred or services have been provided, the purchase price is fixed or determinable and collectability is reasonably assured.

 

Hardware

HiTek and Huasheng are in the business of sales of the computer and network hardware to end users. The products include computers, printers, internet cables, certain internet servers, cameras and monitors, and etc. Revenue from the sales of products is recognized when title and risk of loss passes to the customer, delivery is considered complete, and collectability is reasonably assured. 

 

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Software

HiTek also does business in software sales and focuses on the perpetual licenses sales for one of the self-developed software Communication Interface System(“CIS”). CIS is based on LINUX, which is a general embedded interface system used in petrochemical and coal enterprises. The system is used to communicate the RCTX-X module, collect the work diagram, the electricity diagram, the pressure temperature and other measures, and can extract the data and import it to the software of the windows platform to display analysis. The installation and operation training are essential to the functionality of the software which are provided to the clients prior to the acceptance of the software. We provide one-year warranty which mainly telephone supports. The upgrade or enhancement for CIS is not required. Therefore, revenue from the sales of software is recognized when title and risk of loss passes to the customer, delivery is considered complete, customer acceptance has been satisfied, and collectability is reasonably assured. 

 

IT Services

HiTek provides IT support and maintenance services for its clients. HiTek’s IT service business is directly responsible for periodical check, on-call repairing and maintenance service, technical support for client’s IT facilities and IT disaster recovery etc.,

 

Revenue from fixed price contracts are recognized ratably over service period.

 

Tax Devices and Services

All businesses in China are required to purchase the Anti-Counterfeiting Tax Control System (“ACTCS” or Golden Tax Disk or GTD) tax devices to issue the VAT Invoice and for quarterly VAT filing. HiTek is authorized to carry out the implementation of ACTCS specialty hardware retailing. The price of GTD and related supporting services are determined by the National Development and Reform Commission.

 

The Company provides the after-sales supporting services and charges the service fee on an annual basis. The service period is usually one year. Revenue related to its service is recognized as the services are performed and amounts are earned, using the straight-line method over the term of the related services agreement.

  

The Company’s revenues are derived from its gross billings and is reported on a gross basis when the Company acts as the principal in the transaction and is at risk for collection in accordance with ASC 605-45, “Overall Considerations of Reporting Revenue Gross as a Principal versus Net as an Agent.”  

 

Prepayments received from customers prior to the services being performed are recorded as deferred revenue.

 

Cost of Revenue

 

Cost of revenue is comprised of (i) the direct cost of our hardware products purchased from third parties; (ii) logistics-related costs, which primarily include product packaging and freight-in charges; (iii) third-party royalties paid related to the GTD and (iv) compensation for the employees who handle the products and perform IT services and other costs that are necessary for us to provide the services to our customers.

 

Selling Expenses

 

Selling expenses consists of primarily shipping and handling costs for products sold and advertisement and marketing expenses for promotion of our products.

 

General and Administrative Expenses

 

General and administrative expenses consist primarily of costs in salary and welfare expenses for our general administrative and management staff, facilities costs, depreciation expenses, professional fees, accounting fees, meals and entertainment, utilities, and other miscellaneous expenses incurred in connection with general operations. All depreciation expenses were recorded in general and administrative expenses because fixed assets are mainly for sales and administrative purpose.

 

Advertising Expense

 

The Company expenses advertising costs as incurred and are included as part of selling expenses. Advertising expenses for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 were $5,340 and $16,397, respectively.

 

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Government Subsidies 

 

Grants are given by the government to support the Company 1) for the efforts of the employment of the local fresh graduates and 2) for the sales of software products. Grants are recognized as government subsidies income in the consolidated statements of operations when received.

 

Research and Development Expenses

 

The Company follows the guidance in FASB ASC 985-20, Cost of Software to Be Sold, Leased or Marketed, regarding software development costs to be sold, leased, or otherwise marketed. FASB ASC 985-20-25 requires research and development costs for software development to be expensed as incurred until the software model is technologically feasible. Technological feasibility is established when the enterprise has completed all planning, designing, coding, testing, and identification of risks activities necessary to establish that the product can be produced to meet its design specifications, features, functions, technical performance requirements. A certain amount of judgment and estimation is required to assess when technological feasibility is established, as well as the ongoing assessment of the recoverability of capitalized costs. The Company’s products reach technological feasibility shortly before the products are released and sold to the public. Therefore research and development costs are generally expensed as incurred.

 

Software development costs incurred and charged to research and development expense totaled $24,162 and $23,911 for the years ended December 31, 2017, and December 31, 2016, respectively.

 

The Company defers certain costs related to the software development activities associated with certain software which the Company has determined have future economic benefit. Management periodically reviews and revises, when necessary, its estimate of the future benefit of these costs and expenses them if it deems there no longer is a future benefit. The Company has two software development contracts (for internal use) (Finance and Taxation Service Platform Mobile Application and Corporate Full-Service Platform Mobile Application) which they are obligated to perform certain specific software development activities. The scope of the work includes analyzing and confirming the application requirements checklist provided by the Company, designing under user interface, coding, arranging/locating the servers, and launching. The total contract price was approximately $0.97 million and shall be paid using installment payment method (30% of the retainer, 50% at the beginning of the project, and 20% upon launching of the official version). The price was fixed and no additional consideration was required by the Company. The ownership of the final product belongs to the Company and the copyrights will be shared with the two software development companies. As of December 31, 2017, product development costs capitalized totaled $722,366 (advances to suppliers, net) and the Company’s commitments to additional costs under software development contracts amounted to $245,912 as of December 31, 2017. There was no software development activities and costs incurred in 2016.

 

Income Taxes

 

The Company is governed by the Income Tax Law of the PRC. The Company accounts for income taxes using the asset/liability method prescribed by ASC 740, “Accounting for Income Taxes.” Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on the difference between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities using enacted tax rates that will be in effect in the period in which the differences are expected to reverse. The Company records a valuation allowance to offset deferred tax assets if, based on the weight of available evidence, it is more-likely-than-not that some portion, or all, of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The effect on deferred taxes of a change in tax rates is recognized as income or loss in the period that includes the enactment date.

 

The Company applied the provisions of ASC 740-10-50, “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes,” which provides clarification related to the process associated with accounting for uncertain tax positions recognized in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. Audit periods remain open for review until the statute of limitations has passed. The completion of review or the expiration of the statute of limitations for a given audit period could result in an adjustment to the Company’s liability for income taxes. Any such adjustment could be material to the Company’s results of operations for any given quarterly or annual period based, in part, upon the results of operations for the given period.

 

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Foreign Currency Translation

 

The functional currency of the Company’s operations in the PRC is the Chinese Yuan or Renminbi (“RMB”). The consolidated financial statements are translated to U.S. dollars using the period end rates of exchange for assets and liabilities, equity is translated at historical exchange rates, and average rates of exchange (for the period) are used for revenues and expenses and cash flows. As a result, amounts relating to assets and liabilities reported on the statements of cash flows may not necessarily agree with the changes in the corresponding balances on the balance sheets. Translation adjustments resulting from the process of translating the local currency financial statements into U.S. dollars are included in determining comprehensive income / loss. Transactions denominated in foreign currencies are translated into the functional currency at the exchange rates prevailing on the transaction dates. Assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into the functional currency at the exchange rates prevailing at the balance sheet date with any transaction gains and losses that arise from exchange rate fluctuations on transactions denominated in a currency other than the functional currency are included in the results of operations as incurred.

 

All of the Company’s revenue transactions are transacted in its functional currency. The Company does not enter into any material transaction in foreign currencies. Transaction gains or losses have not had, and are not expected to have, a material effect on the results of operations of the Company.

 

Asset and liability accounts at December 31, 2017, and 2016 were translated at 6.5064 RMB to $1.00 and at 6.9448 RMB to $1.00, respectively, which were the exchange rates on the balance sheet dates. Equity accounts were stated at their historical rates. The average translation rates applied to the statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 were 6.75985 RMB to $1.00 and 6.64396 RMB to $1.00, respectively.

 

Comprehensive Income

 

Comprehensive income is comprised of net income (loss) and all changes to the statements of shareholders’ equity (deficit), except those due to investments by shareholders and changes in paid-in capital. For the Company, comprehensive income for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 consisted of net income and unrealized income (loss) from foreign currency translation adjustment.

 

Related Parties

 

A party is considered to be related to the Company if the party directly or indirectly or through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Company. Related parties also include principal owners of the Company, its management, members of the immediate families of principal owners of the Company and its management and other parties with which the Company may deal if one party controls or can significantly influence the management or operating policies of the other to an extent that one of the transacting parties might be prevented from fully pursuing its own separate interests. A party which can significantly influence the management or operating policies of the transacting parties or if it has an ownership interest in one of the transacting parties and can significantly influence the other to an extent that one or more of the transacting parties might be prevented from fully pursuing its own separate interests is also a related party.

 

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Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

Recently issued accounting pronouncements

 

Revenue Recognition:     In May 2014, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Topic  606 (ASU 2014-09), to supersede nearly all existing revenue recognition guidance under U.S. GAAP. The core principle of the guidance is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. To achieve that core principle, an entity should apply the following steps:

 

Step 1: Identify the contract(s) with a customer.

 

Step 2: Identify the performance obligations in the contract.

 

Step 3: Determine the transaction price.

 

Step 4: Allocate the transaction price to the performance obligations in the contract.

 

Step 5: Recognize revenue when (or as) the entity satisfies a performance obligation.

 

On May 28, 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, requiring an entity to recognize the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. The updated standard will replace most existing revenue recognition guidance in U.S. GAAP when it becomes effective and permits the use of either the full retrospective or modified retrospective transition method. In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-14, Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Deferral of the Effective Date, which deferred the effective date of the new revenue standard for periods beginning after December 15, 2016 to December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted but not earlier than the original effective date. Accordingly, the updated standard is effective for us in the first quarter of fiscal 2019.

 

During 2016, the FASB also issued ASU 2016-08,  Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net);  ASU 2016-10,  Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing ; ASU 2016-11,  Rescission of SEC Guidance Because of Accounting Standards Updates 2014-09 and 2014-16 Pursuant to Staff Announcements at the March 3, 2016 EITF Meeting ; and ASU 2016-12,  Revenue from Contracts with Customers: Narrow-Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients;  and ASU 2016-20,  Technical Corrections and Improvements to Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers,  all of which were issued to improve and clarify the guidance in ASU 2014-09. The new standard also permits two methods of adoption: retrospectively to each prior reporting period presented (full retrospective method), or retrospectively with the cumulative effect of initially applying the guidance recognized at the date of initial application (the modified retrospective method). The Company does not expect the new revenue standard to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

 

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Leases: On February 24, 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases, requiring lessees to recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability on the balance sheet for all leases with the exception of short-term leases with a lease term of twelve months or less. For lessees, leases will continue to be classified as either operating or finance leases in the income statement. Lessor accounting is similar to the current model but updated to align with certain changes to the lessee model. Lessors will continue to classify leases as operating, direct financing or sales-type leases. The effective date of the new standard for public companies (for all other entities) is for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018 (December 15, 2019) and interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. The new standard must be adopted using a modified retrospective transition and requires application of the new guidance at the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented. Management plans to adopt this ASU in the first quarter of year 2020. The Company does not expect the new revenue standard to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

 

Statement of Cash Flows:  In August 2016, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-15, Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments. This ASU addresses the classification of certain specific cash flow issues including debt prepayment or extinguishment costs, settlement of certain debt instruments, contingent consideration payments made after a business combination, proceeds from the settlement of certain insurance claims and distributions received from equity method investees. This ASU is effective for public companies (for all other entities) for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2017 (December 15, 2018), and interim periods within those fiscal years, with early adoption permitted. An entity that elects early adoption must adopt all of the amendments in the same period. Management plans to adopt this ASU in the first quarter of year 2019. The Company does not expect this new standard to have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

 

Income Taxes: In October 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-16, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Intra-Entity Transfer of Assets Other than Inventory”, which requires the recognition of the income tax consequences of an intra-entity transfer of an asset, other than inventory, when the transfer occurs. For public business entities (for all other entities), the amendments in this ASU are effective for annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2017 (December 31, 2018), including interim reporting periods within those annual reporting periods. Early adoption is permitted. The amendments in this ASU should be adopted on a modified retrospective basis. Management plans to adopt this ASU in the first quarter of year 2019. The Company does not expect that adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on its consolidated financial statements.

 

The Company does not believe other recently issued but not yet effective accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the consolidated financial position, statements of operations and cash flows.

 

NOTE 3 – SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT

 

Short-term investments consisted of the following:

 

    As of December 31,  
Short-term investments   2017     2016  
Trading equity securities   $ 341,838     $ 357,353  
Mutual fund     1,429,362       1,367,930  
Total   $ 1,771,200     $ 1,725,283  

 

Investment income (loss) for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 consists of the following:

 

    For the years ended December 31,  
    2017     2016  
Gain from sales of short-term investments:                
Trading equity securities   $ 41,035     $ 14,635  
Mutual fund     40,066       11,338  
Unrealized holding loss:                
Trading equity securities     (78,174 )     (48,465 )
Net investment income (loss)   $ 2,927     $ (22,492 )

 

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NOTE 4 – accounts receivable, NET

 

At December 31, 2017 and 2016, accounts receivable, net consisted of the following:

 

    As of December 31,  
    2017     2016  
Accounts receivable   $ 1,244,663     $ 524,119  
Less: allowance for doubtful accounts     (375,337 )     (346,818 )
Total   $ 869,326     $ 177,301  

 

The Company reviews the outstanding receivable on a periodic basis and makes general and specific allowances when there is doubt as to the collectability of individual balances.

 

NOTE 5 – INVENTORIES, NET

 

At December 31, 2017 and 2016, inventories consisted of the following:

 

    As of December 31,  
    2017     2016  
Inventory   $ 328,065     $ 533,784  
Less: reserve for obsolete inventories     (50,496 )     (29,732 )
Total   $ 277,569     $ 504,052  

 

Inventory includes computer, network hardware, and Golden Tax Disks. The Company reviews its inventories periodically to determine if any reserves are necessary for potential obsolescence or if a write-down is necessary if the carrying value exceeds net realizable value.

 

NOTE 6 – PROPERTY and equipment, net

 

At December 31, 2017 and 2016, property and equipment consisted of the following:

 

    As of December 31,  
    2017     2016  
Office furniture   $ 5,452     $ 5,107  
Computer equipment     7,791       3,188  
Transportation equipment     71,763       67,233  
Buildings and improvements     476,373       446,301  
      561,379       521,831  
Less: accumulated depreciation     (308,472 )     (259,043 )
Net book value   $ 252,907     $ 262,788  

 

For the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016, depreciation expense amounted to $30,776 and $31,582, respectively.

 

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NOTE 7 – Taxes payable

 

At December 31, 2017 and 2016, taxes payable consisted of the following:

 

    As of December 31,  
    2017     2016  
Value-added Tax payable   $ 190,622     $ 80,827  
Income tax payable     71,172       8,108  
Other taxes payable     11,130       254  
Total   $ 272,925     $ 89,189  

 

NOTE 8 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

The following represented related party balances as of December 31, 2017 and 2016:

 

    As of December 31,  
    2017     2016  
Due from related parties            
Beijing Longchen Building Decoration Engineering Company Limited (1)   $ 215,173     $ 113,754  
    $ 215,173     $ 113,754  
                 
Due to related party                
Fengqi (Beijing) Zhineng Technology Co., Ltd. (4)   $ 13,009     $ -  
Shenping Yin (3)     155,376       655,176  
    $ 168,385     $ 655,176  
                 
Sales                
Fengqi (Beijing) Zhineng Technology Co., Ltd. (4)   $ 80,944     $ 215,683  
Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd. (2)     366,879       -  
Beijing Zhongzhe Yuantong Technology Co., Ltd. (5)     312,493       684,131  
    $ 760,316     $ 899,814  
                 
Accounts receivable                
Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd. (2)   $ 440,366     $ -  
Fengqi (Beijing) Zhineng Technology Co., Ltd. (4)     89,143       241,130  
Beijing Zhongzhe Yuantong Technology Co., Ltd. (5)     363,576       698,882  
    $ 893,085     $ 940,012  

 

(1) Beijing Longchen Building Decoration Engineering Company Limited is 80% owned by Mr. Shenrui Yin who is the brother of the Company’s Chairman, Mr. Shenping Yin (“Mr. Yin”). The loan was fully repaid on April 27, 2018.

 

(2) Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Baotou Zhongzhe”) is a minority shareholder of HiTek.

 

(3) Mr. Yin is the Company’s Chairman and the loan is for working capital purpose and due on demand at no interest. The loan was fully repaid as of June 30, 2018.

 

(4) Mr. Yin is the director and a minority shareholder of Fengqi (Beijing) Zhineng Technology Co., Ltd.

 

(5) Beijing Zhongzhe Yuantong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Beijing Zhongzhe”) and Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd (described (2) above) are under common control.

 

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NOTE 9 – ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES

 

At December 31, 2017 and 2016, accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following:

 

    As of December 31,  
    2017     2016  
Payroll   $ 251,681     $ 144,051  
Other payable     1,816       980  
Total   $ 253,497     $ 145,031  

 

NOTE 10 – STATUTORY RESERVE

 

Pursuant to the laws applicable to the PRC, PRC entities must make appropriations from after-tax profit to the non-distributable “statutory surplus reserve fund”. Subject to certain cumulative limits, the “statutory surplus reserve fund” requires annual appropriations of 10% of after-tax profit until the aggregated appropriations reach 50% of the registered capital (as determined under accounting principles generally accepted in the PRC (“PRC GAAP”) at each year-end). As of December 31, 2017 and 2016, the balance of total statutory reserves were $312,993 and $99,206, respectively.

 

NOTE 11 – ORDINARY SHARES

 

The Company is authorized to issue 500,000,000 ordinary shares of $0.0001 par value. On November 3, 2017 and December 16, 2017, the Company issued an aggregate of 10,987,679 ordinary shares to nine shareholders. In connection with reorganization, all shares and per share amounts have been retroactively restated as if it occurred on January 1, 2016.

 

On June 29, 2016 and December 26, 2017, HiTek received investment from shareholders in the amount of $1,446,227 and $449,066, respectively.

 

NOTE 12 – INCOME TAXES

 

The entities within the Company file separate tax returns in the respective tax jurisdictions in which they operate.

 

Cayman Islands

The Company is a tax-exempt entity incorporated in Cayman Islands.

 

Hong Kong

HiTek Hong Kong Limited was incorporated in Hong Kong and does not conduct any substantial operations of its own. No provision for Hong Kong profits tax has been made in the consolidated financial statements as HiTek Hong Kong Limited has no assessable profits for the year ended December 31, 2017.

 

China

The Company’s PRC operating subsidiary and VIEs, being incorporated in the PRC, are governed by the income tax law of the PRC and is subject to PRC enterprise income tax (“EIT”). The EIT rate of PRC is 25%, which applies to both domestic and foreign invested enterprises.

 

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The Company’s income before income taxes includes the following:

 

    For the years ended
December 31
 
    2017     2016  
Non-China operations   $ -     $ -  
China operations     2,633,847       485,319  
Total income before income taxes   $ 2,633,847     $ 485,319  

 

Income tax expense was comprised of the followings:

 

    For the years ended
December 31,
 
    2017     2016  
Current tax expense            
China   $ 106,384     $ 103,629  
Deferred tax expense                
China     392,224       1,669  
Total income tax expense   $ 498,608     $ 105,298  

 

Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. The VIEs located in PRC are subject to examination in China and tax years for 2015 through 2017 are still open for examination in China. The cumulative tax effect at the expected rate of 25% of significant items comprising the net deferred tax amount is at December 31, 2017 and 2016 as follows:

 

    As of December 31,  
    2017     2016  
Deferred tax asset            
Deferred revenue   $ 217,841     $ 186,671  
Allowance for doubtful accounts     93,834       297,702  
Inventories obsolescence     30,216       9,269  
Unrealized losses on trading securities     16,899       -  
Accrued Bonus     -       20,544  
Other     3,393       1,455  
Total deferred tax assets     362,183       515,641  
Deferred tax liabilities                
Unbilled revenue     (225,090 )     (5,260 )
Deferred government subsidiary income     (28,953 )     (20,629 )
Unrealized gains on trading securities     -       (3,191 )
Other     (7,963 )     (10,929 )
Total deferred tax liabilities     (262,006 )     (40,009 )
Net deferred tax assets   $ 100,177     $ 475,632  

 

Following is a reconciliation of income tax expense at the effective rate to income tax at the calculated statutory rates:

 

    For the years ended
December 31,
 
    2017     2016  
PRC statutory tax rate     25 %     25 %
Permanent difference     (14.5 %)     5.4 %
Temporary difference     13.7 %     (8.7 %)
Tax holiday effect     (5.3 %)     -  
Effective tax rate     18.9 %     21.7 %

 

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Uncertain Tax Positions

 

The Company did not have significant unrecognized uncertain tax positions or any unrecognized liabilities, interest or penalties associated with unrecognized tax benefit as of and for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016.

 

NOTE 13 – EARNINGS PER SHARE

 

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share for the periods presented:

 

    For the year ended December 31,  
    2017     2016  
Numerator:            
Net income   $ 2,135,239     $ 380,021  
Denominator:                
Weighted-average shares used in computing basic and diluted net income per share*     10,987,679       10,987,679  
Net income per share of ordinary shares: -basic and diluted*   $ 0.19     $ 0.03  

  

*On November 3, 2017 and December 16, 2017, the Company issued an aggregate of 10,987,679 ordinary shares in connection with the reorganization (Note 1). All references to numbers of ordinary shares and per-share data in the accompanying consolidated financial statements have been adjusted to reflect such issuance of shares on a retrospective basis.

 

NOTE 14 – CONCENTRATIONS

 

Major Customers

 

For the year ended December 31, 2017, one customer represented approximately 11% of the Company’s revenue. At December 31, 2017, five customers accounted for 94% of the Company’s trade accounts receivable, net.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2016, two customers represented approximately 26% and 10% of the Company’s revenue, respectively. At December 31, 2016, three customers accounted for 88% of the Company’s trade accounts receivable, net.

 

Major Suppliers

 

For the year ended December 31, 2017, one supplier accounted for 10% of the total purchases. At December 31, 2017, three suppliers accounted for 48% of the Company’s trade accounts payable.

 

For the year ended December 31, 2016, two suppliers accounted for 34% and 15% of the total purchases. At December 31, 2017, five suppliers accounted for 43% of the Company’s trade accounts payable.

 

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NOTE 15 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCY

 

Lease Obligations

 

The Company leases certain office premises and apartments for employees under operating lease agreements with various terms through March 9, 2020. Future minimum lease payments under the operating lease agreements are as follows:

 

    Amount  
Twelve months ending December 31,      
       
2018   $ 50,033  
2019     46,330  
2020     3,535  
    $ 99,898  

 

Rental expense for the year ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 were $82,380 and $116,160, respectively.

 

Underwriter Agreement

 

On January 16, 2018, Hitek entered into an agreement with Boustead Securities, LLC (“Boustead” or” underwriter”). Boustead was engaged to act as the exclusive financial advisor to Hitek and its affiliates and subsidiaries in connection with Hitek’s planned initial public offering (“IPO”). The agreement will be expired in one year and can be terminated with mutual written agreement. For any extension of this agreement, Boustead will be paid an extension advisory fee of $40,000.

 

Success Fee

 

For any debt financing, Boustead will receive a cash success fee equal to 4% of the gross proceeds received and warrants to purchase the Company’s Class A Ordinary Shares equal to 4% of the gross proceeds received, exercisable at the strike price equal to 100% of the fair market value price of the Class A Ordinary Shares. The warrants will be exercisable within two and half year from the issuance and also can be exercisable on a cashless basis. For any equity investment into the Company, Boustead will receive a cash success fee equal to 6% of the gross proceeds received and warrants to purchase the Company’s Class A Ordinary Shares equal to 6% of the gross proceeds received. The warrant will be exercisable at the strike price equal to 100% of the lower of the fair market value price of the Class A Ordinary Shares or the price paid by investors in the financing for the Company. The warrants will be exercisable within two and half year from the issuance and also can be exercisable on a cashless basis.

 

Advisory Fee

 

Hitek agrees to pay Boustead a total of $100,000 as an advisory fee in three installments. $25,000 was paid upon execution of the agreement. $25,000 is payable upon the filing of an application for listing on NASDAQ. $50,000 is payable upon the close of the IPO.

 

Risks in relation to the VIE structure

 

It is possible that the Company’s operation of certain of its operations and businesses through its VIE could be found by PRC authorities to be in violation of PRC law and regulations prohibiting or restricting foreign ownership of companies that engage in such operations and businesses. While the Company’s management considers the possibility of such a finding by PRC regulatory authorities under current law and regulations to be remote, on January 19, 2015, the Ministry of Commerce of the PRC, or (the “MOFCOM”) released on its Website for public comment a proposed PRC law (the “Draft FIE Law”) that appears to include VIE within the scope of entities that could be considered to be foreign invested enterprises (or “FIEs”) that would be subject to restrictions under existing PRC law on foreign investment in certain categories of industry. Specifically, the Draft FIE Law introduces the concept of “actual control” for determining whether an entity is considered to be an FIE. In addition to control through direct or indirect ownership or equity, the Draft FIE Law includes control through contractual arrangements within the definition of “actual control.” If the Draft FIE Law is passed by the People’s Congress of the PRC and goes into effect in its current form, these provisions regarding control through contractual arrangements could be construed to reach the Company’s VIE arrangements, and as a result the Company’s VIE could become explicitly subject to the current restrictions on foreign investment in certain categories of industry. If a finding were made by PRC authorities, under existing law and regulations or under the Draft FIE Law if it becomes effective, about the Company’s operation of certain of its operations and businesses through its VIEs, regulatory authorities with jurisdiction over the licensing and operation of such operations and businesses would have broad discretion in dealing with such a violation, including levying fines, confiscating the Company’s income, revoking the business or operating licenses of the affected businesses, requiring the Company to restructure its ownership structure or operations, or requiring the Company to discontinue all or any portion of its operations. Any of these actions could cause significant disruption to the Company’s business operations, and have a severe adverse impact on the Company’s cash flows, financial position and operating performance.

 

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In addition, it is possible that the contracts among WFOE, HiTek and HiTek’s shareholders would not be enforceable in China if PRC government authorities or courts were to find that such contracts contravene PRC laws and regulations or are otherwise not enforceable for public policy reasons. In the event that the Company was unable to enforce these contractual arrangements, the Company would not be able to exert effective control over the VIEs. Consequently, the VIEs’ results of operations, assets and liabilities would not be included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. If such were the case, the Company’s cash flows, financial position, and operating performance would be materially adversely affected. The Company’s contractual arrangements WFOE, HiTek and HiTek’s shareholders are approved and in place. Management believes that such contracts are enforceable, and considers the possibility remote that PRC regulatory authorities with jurisdiction over the Company’s operations and contractual relationships would find the contracts to be unenforceable.

 

The Company’s operations and businesses rely on the operations and businesses of its VIEs, which hold certain recognized revenue-producing assets. The VIEs also have an assembled workforce, focused primarily on research and development, whose costs are expensed as incurred. The Company’s operations and businesses may be adversely impacted if the Company loses the ability to use and enjoy assets held by its VIE.

 

NOTE 16 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

The Company evaluated subsequent events and transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date through July 13, 2018, the date that the consolidated financial statements were available to be issued. With the exception of those matters discussed in Notes 1, 8 and 15, there were no material subsequent events that required recognition or additional disclosure in these consolidated financial statements.

 

NOTE 17 – CORRECTION OF AN ERROR

 

Correction of Error

 

In accordance with FASB ASC 250, Accounting Changes and Error Corrections, the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 previously issued have been restated to include purchase and sales of trading securities in the line item changes in “short-term investment” as operating activities rather than investing activities. The effect of the restatement was to increase cash flows from operating activities by $70,621 for the year ended December 31, 2017 and decrease cash flows from operating activities by $1,415,235 for the year ended December 31, 2016. The restatement had no effect on total changes in cash and cash equivalents. There were no restatements to the Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income, net income per share, any component of stockholders’ equity or total assets for any year presented.

 

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HITEK GLOBAL INC.

UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

 

    June 30,     December 31,  
    2018     2017  
    (Unaudited)        
Assets            
Current assets            
Cash and cash equivalents   $ 369,744     $ 867,570  
Short-term investments     2,046,709       1,771,200  
Accounts receivable, net     1,732,118       869,326  
Accounts receivable-related parties, net     1,313,796       893,085  
Advances to suppliers, net     1,225,157       1,491,616  
Inventories, net     778,896       277,569  
Deferred income tax assets-current     -       100,177  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets     278,761       397,760  
Due from related parties     -       215,173  
Total current assets     7,745,181       6,883,476  
                 
Non-current assets                
Property and equipment, net     233,111       252,907  
Total non-current assets     233,111       252,907  
Total Assets   $ 7,978,292     $ 7,136,383  
                 
Liabilities and Equity                
Current Liabilities                
Accounts payable   $ 245,557     $ 383,521  
Deferred revenue     856,914       877,607  
Taxes payable     336,742       272,925  
Due to related parties     388       168,385  
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities     208,969       253,497  
Total Current Liabilities     1,648,570       1,955,935  
                 
Non-current Liabilities                
Deferred income tax liabilities-Non-current     12,708       -  
Total non-current liabilities     12,708       -  
Total Liabilities     1,661,278       1,955,935  
                 
Commitments and Contingencies                
                 
Shareholders’ Equity                
Ordinary Shares (par value $0.0001 per share, 500,000,000 shares authorized; 10,987,679 and 10,987,679 shares issued and outstanding at June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively*)     1,099       1,099  
Additional paid-in capital     2,628,356       2,628,356  
Statutory reserve     312,993       312,993  
Retained earnings (Accumulated deficit)     3,124,098       1,850,759  
Accumulated other comprehensive income     250,468       387,241  
Total Shareholders’ Equity     6,317,014       5,180,448  
                 
Total Liabilities and Shareholders’ Equity   $ 7,978,292     $ 7,136,383  

 

*On November 3, 2017 and December 16, 2017, the Company issued an aggregate of 10,987,679 ordinary shares in connection with the reorganization (Note 1). All references to numbers of ordinary shares and per-share data in the accompanying consolidated financial statements have been adjusted to reflect such issuance of shares on a retrospective basis.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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HITEK GLOBAL INC.

UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE INCOME

 

    For the Six Months
Ended June 30,
 
    2018     2017  
    (Unaudited)     (Unaudited)  
Revenues            
Hardware   $ 709,972     $ 841,067  
Hardware - related parties     369,906       26,228  
Tax devices and service     1,219,577       1,277,022  
Software     570,872       652,450  
Software - related party     129,990       -  
IT services     463,422       384,257  
Total revenues     3,463,739       3,181,024  
Cost of revenues     (1,398,288 )     (1,363,918 )
Gross profit     2,065,451       1,817,106  
                 
Operating expenses:                
General and administrative expenses     504,193       473,438  
Selling expenses     1,272       28,870  
Total operating expenses     505,465       502,308  
                 
Operating income     1,559,986       1,314,798  
                 
Other income (expense)                
Government subsidies     31,516       11,752  
Net investment loss     (134,501 )     (16,522 )
Financial expense, net     (2,948 )     (1,974 )
Total other income (expense)     (105,933 )     (6,744 )
                 
Net income before provision for income taxes     1,454,053       1,308,054  
Income tax expense     180,714       344,939  
                 
Net income   $ 1,273,339     $ 963,115  
Comprehensive income                
Net income   $ 1,273,339     $ 963,115  
Foreign currency translation income (loss)     (136,773 )     71,997  
                 
Comprehensive income   $ 1,136,566     $ 1,035,112  
Earnings per ordinary share*                
– Basic and diluted   $ 0.12     $ 0.09  
                 
Weighted average number of ordinary shares outstanding*                
–Basic and diluted     10,987,679       10,987,679  

 

*On November 3, 2017 and December 16, 2017, the Company issued an aggregate of 10,987,679 ordinary shares in connection with the reorganization (Note 1). All references to numbers of ordinary shares and per-share data in the accompanying consolidated financial statements have been adjusted to reflect such issuance of shares on a retrospective basis.

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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HITEK GLOBAL INC.

UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

    For the Six Months
Ended June 30,
 
    2018     2017  
    (Unaudited)    

(Unaudited)

 
             
Operating Activities            
Net income   $ 1,273,340     $ 963,115  
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash used in by operating activities:                
Depreciation and amortization     16,103       15,264  
Net investment loss     134,501       16,522  
Provision for doubtful accounts     (10,062 )     4,534  
Provision for obsolete inventories     (24,198 )     (12,960 )
Deferred tax asset     115,589       250,654  
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:                
Short-term investment     (452,293 )     (27,918 )
Accounts receivable     (901,334 )     (1,120,509 )
Accounts receivable from related parties     (453,209 )     158,424  
Advances to suppliers     251,185       20,717  
Inventory, net     (501,930 )     (177,644 )
Prepaid expenses and other current assets     115,126       (271,630 )
Due from related party     219,899       -  
Accounts payable     (136,648 )     (22,196 )
Deferred revenue     (5,979 )     86,190  
Taxes payable     71,180       57,507  
Due to related parties     (171,681 )     (58,187 )
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities     (41,807 )     2,438  
Net cash used in operating activities     (502,218 )     (115,679 )
                 
Investing Activities                
Purchases of property and equipment     -       (4,153 )
Net cash used in investing activities     -       (4,153 )
                 
Effect of exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents     4,392       3,602  
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents     (497,826 )     (116,230 )
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of period     867,570       215,064  
Cash and cash equivalents at end of period   $ 369,744     $ 98,834  
                 
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information:                
Cash paid for income taxes   $ 86,133     $ 18,329  

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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HITEK GLOBAL INC.

Notes to UNAUDITED CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED Financial Statements

 

NOTE 1 – NATURE OF OPERATIONS

 

HiTek Global Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands on November 3, 2017 in anticipation of an initial public offering. The Company through its variable interest entity (“VIE”) and VIE’s subsidiaries provide hardware sales, software sales, Information Technology (“IT”) maintenance services and tax devices and services in the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”).

 

The Company issued an aggregate of 10,987,679 ordinary shares to Fortune Enterprise Holdings Limited, an entity 100% owned by Shenping Yin, and eight other shareholders on November 3, 2017 and December 16, 2017. Of the 10,987,679 ordinary shares, 74.55% was owned by Fortune Enterprise Holdings Limited. On November 20, 2017, the Company formed its wholly-owned subsidiary, HiTek Hong Kong Limited (“HiTek HK”) in Hong Kong. On March 15, 2018, HiTek HK formed its wholly-owned subsidiary, Tian Dahai (Xiamen) Information Technology Co. Ltd. (“WFOE”) in PRC.

 

Xiamen Hengda HiTek Computer Network Co., Ltd. (“HiTek”), was established in January 1996 by Shenping Yin, Xiaoyang Huang (the spouse of Shenping Yin) and nine other shareholders, who held 29.83%, 44.74% and 25.43% of its equity interests, respectively, in Xiamen, Fujian Province, PRC pursuant to PRC laws. The Company entered into a series of contractual arrangements with HiTek which were effective in March 2018, and its equity holders through WFOE to obtain control and became the primary beneficiary of HiTek. 

 

In September 1999, Xiamen Huasheng HiTek Computer Network Co., Ltd (“Huasheng”), a fully owned subsidiary of HiTek was incorporated under the laws of the PRC.

 

In September 2017, Huoerguosi Hengda Information Technology Co., Ltd (“Huoerguosi”), a fully owned subsidiary of HiTek was established in XinJiang Province, PRC.

 

 

As all the above mentioned companies presented were under common control, the series of contractual arrangements between the Company and HiTek in March 2018 constituted a reorganization under common control and were required to be retrospectively applied to the consolidated financial statements at their historical amounts. The consolidated financial statements have been prepared as if the existing corporate structure had been in existence throughout all periods. This includes a retrospective presentation for all equity related disclosures, including share and per share, which have been revised to reflect the effects of the reorganization.

 

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NOTE 2 – BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

 

Basis of Presentation

 

The accompanying unaudited interim condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) regarding interim financial statements that permit reduced disclosure for interim periods. In the opinion of management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements include all adjustments necessary to fairly present our condensed consolidated financial position as of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, our condensed consolidated results of operations for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 and our condensed consolidated cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017. Such adjustments are of a normal recurring nature. The information in this prospectus should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 included elsewhere in this prospectus.

 

Basis of Consolidation

 

The accompanying consolidated financial statements include the financial statements of the Company, its wholly-owned subsidiaries and VIE companies, including HiTek, Huasheng and Huoerguosi. All inter-company transactions and balances have been eliminated upon consolidation.

 

VIE Agreements with HiTek

 

Due to PRC legal restrictions or foreign ownership in certain sectors, neither we nor our subsidiaries own any equity interest in HiTek. Instead, WFOE, HiTek and HiTek’s shareholders entered into a series of contractual arrangements (“VIE Agreements”) on March 31, 2018. The VIE agreements are designed to provide WFOE with the power, rights and obligations equivalent in all material respects to those it would possess as the sole equity holder of HiTek, including absolute control rights and the rights to the assets, property and net income of HiTek. Accordingly, the Company is considered the primary beneficiary of VIE and has consolidated the VIE and the VIE’s subsidiaries’ assets, liabilities, results of operations, and cash flows in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.

 

Each of the VIE Agreements is described in detail below:

 

Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement

 

Pursuant to the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement between HiTek and WFOE, WFOE provides HiTek with technical support, consulting services and other management services relating to its day-to-day business operations and management, on an exclusive basis. The Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement has come into effect as of March 31, 2018. For services rendered to HiTek by WFOE under this agreement, WFOE is entitled to collect a service fee that shall be paid per quarter of 100% of HiTek’s quarterly profit. The term of the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement is ten years unless it is terminated by WFOE with 30-day prior notice.

  

Equity Interest Pledge Agreement

 

WFOE, HiTek and HiTek shareholders entered into an Equity Interest Pledge Agreement, pursuant to which HiTek shareholders pledged all of their equity interest in HiTek to WFOE in order to guarantee the performance of HiTek’s obligations under the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement as described above. The Equity Interest Pledge Agreement has come into effect as of March 31, 2018. During the term of the pledge, WFOE is entitled to receive any dividends declared on the pledged equity interest of HiTek. The Equity Interest Pledge Agreement ends when all contractual obligations under the Exclusive Technical Consulting and Service Agreement have been fully performed.

 

Exclusive Equity Interests Purchase Agreement

 

Under the Exclusive Equity Interests Purchase Agreement, the HiTek Shareholders granted WFOE (or its designee) an exclusive option to purchase, to the extent permitted under PRC law, part or all of their equity interests in HiTek. The option price is equal to the capital paid in by the HiTek Shareholders subject to any appraisal or restrictions required by applicable PRC laws and regulations. The Exclusive Equity Interests Purchase Agreement remains effective for a term of ten years and may be renewed at WFOE’s election.

 

Power of Attorney

 

Each shareholder of the HiTek has executed an irrevocable power of attorney in favor of WFOE. Pursuant to this power of attorney, the WFOE has full power and authority to exercise all of such shareholder’s rights with respect to his equity interest in the VIE Companies, including HiTek, Huasheng and Huoerguosi. The power of attorney will remain in force for so long as the shareholder remains a shareholder of HiTek.

 

As of June 30, 2018, there were no transactions in HiTek Global Inc. and HiTek HK besides minimal capital transactions.

 

Use of Estimates and Assumptions

 

The preparation of the consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.

 

Significant accounting estimates reflected in the Company’s consolidated financial statements include allowance for doubtful accounts, inventory obsolescence, deferred taxes, and the useful lives of property and equipment. Since the use of estimates is an integral component of the financial reporting process, actual results could differ from those estimates.

 

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Fair Values of Financial Instruments 

 

The U.S. GAAP accounting standards regarding fair value of financial instruments and related fair value measurements define fair value, establish a three-level valuation hierarchy that requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value.

 

The three levels of inputs are defined as follows:

 

Level 1 inputs to the valuation methodology are quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets.

 

Level 2 inputs to the valuation methodology include quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets, and inputs that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly, for substantially the full term of the financial instrument. 

 

Level 3 inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable.

 

ASC 825-10 “Financial Instruments”, allows entities to voluntarily choose to measure certain financial assets and liabilities at fair value (fair value option). The fair value option may be elected on an instrument-by-instrument basis and is irrevocable, unless a new election date occurs. If the fair value option is elected for an instrument, unrealized gains and losses for that instrument should be reported in earnings at each subsequent reporting date. The Company did not elect to apply the fair value option to any outstanding instruments.

 

The carrying amounts reported in the consolidated balance sheets for cash, accounts receivable, accounts receivable – related party, prepaid expenses and other, accounts payable and accrued liabilities, income taxes payable, VAT and other taxes payable, and due to related parties approximate their fair market value based on the short-term maturity of these instruments.

 

The Company’s investments in equity are measured at fair value on a recurring basis consist of various mutual funds and trading securities. The valuation for the Level 1 position is based on quoted prices in active markets. The following table presents information about short-term investments measured at fair value on a recurring basis as of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017.

 

    June 30,     December 31,  
    2018     2017  
    (Unaudited)        
Trading equity securities   $ 180,896     $ 341,838  
Mutual funds     1,865,813       1,429,362  
Total   $ 2,046,709     $ 1,771,200  

 

Earnings Per Share

 

Basic earnings per share is computed by dividing net income by the weighted-average number of ordinary shares outstanding during the period. Diluted earnings (loss) per share is computed by dividing net income by the weighted-average number of ordinary shares and dilutive potential ordinary shares outstanding during the period.

 

As of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, there were no other contracts to issue ordinary shares, such as options, warrants or conversion rights, which would have a dilutive effect on earnings per share.

 

Advances to Suppliers, Net

 

Advances to suppliers are the amounts prepaid to suppliers for purchases of inventory and to third party developers for mobile APP development. In evaluating the reserve for doubtful account, the Company mainly considers the age of the balance. As of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, advances to suppliers consisted of the following:

 

    June 30,     December 31,  
    2018     2017  
   

(Unaudited)

       
Advances to suppliers - Inventories   $ 304,727     $ 770,964  
Advance to third party developers of internal use software     921,575       722,366  
Less: reserve for doubtful account     (1,145 )     (1,714 )
Total   $ 1,225,157     $ 1,491,616  

 

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Property and Equipment

 

Property and equipment are carried at cost and are depreciated on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the assets. The cost of repairs and maintenance is expensed as incurred; major replacements and improvements are capitalized. When assets are retired or disposed of, the cost and accumulated depreciation are removed from the accounts, and any resulting gains or losses are included in income in the year of disposition. The Company examines the possibility of decreases in the value of fixed assets when events or changes in circumstances reflect the fact that their recorded value may not be recoverable.

 

Estimated useful lives are as follows, taking into account the assets’ estimated residual value:

 

Classification Estimated useful life
Furniture and office equipment 2-3 years
Computer equipment 2-3 years
Transportation equipment 5 years
Buildings and improvements 20 years 

 

Impairment of Long-lived Assets

 

In accordance with ASC Topic 360, the Company reviews long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets may not be fully recoverable. The Company recognizes an impairment loss when the sum of expected undiscounted future cash flows is less than the carrying amount of the asset. The amount of impairment is measured as the difference between the asset’s estimated fair value and its book value.  The Company did not record any impairment charge as of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017.

 

Deferred Revenue

 

Deferred revenue consists of the annual subscription fees for Golden Tax Disk (defined below) received from customers but the services have not yet been performed. The Company recognizes the subscription amount as revenue on a straight-line basis in accordance with the service periods. Deferred revenue as of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 was $856,914 and $877,607, respectively.

 

Revenue Recognition

 

Pursuant to the guidance of ASC Topic 605, the Company recognizes revenue when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred or services have been provided, the purchase price is fixed or determinable and collectability is reasonably assured.

 

Hardware

 

HiTek and Huasheng are in the business of sales of the computer and network hardware to end users. The products include computers, printers, internet cables, certain internet servers, cameras and monitors, and etc. Revenue from the sales of products is recognized when title and risk of loss passes to the customer, delivery is considered complete, and collectability is reasonably assured. 

 

Software

 

HiTek also does business in software sales and focuses on the perpetual licenses sales for one of the self-developed software Communication Interface System(“CIS”). CIS is based on LINUX, which is a general embedded interface system used in petrochemical and coal enterprises. The system is used to communicate the RCTX-X module, collect the work diagram, the electricity diagram, the pressure temperature and other measures, and can extract the data and import it to the software of the windows platform to display analysis. The installation and operation training are essential to the functionality of the software which are provided to the clients prior to the acceptance of the software. We provide one-year warranty which mainly telephone supports. The upgrade or enhancement for CIS is not required. Therefore, revenue from the sales of software is recognized when title and risk of loss passes to the customer, delivery is considered complete, customer acceptance has been satisfied, and collectability is reasonably assured. 

 

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IT Services

 

HiTek provides IT support and maintenance services for its clients. HiTek’s IT service business is directly responsible for periodical check, on-call repairing and maintenance service, technical support for client’s IT facilities and IT disaster recovery etc.,

 

Revenue from fixed price contracts are recognized ratably over service period.

 

Tax Devices and Services

 

All businesses in China are required to purchase the Anti-Counterfeiting Tax Control System (“ACTCS” or Golden Tax Disk or GTD) tax devices to issue the VAT Invoice and for quarterly VAT filing. HiTek is authorized to carry out the implementation of ACTCS specialty hardware retailing. The price of GTD and related supporting services are determined by the National Development and Reform Commission. Revenue from the sales of GTD devices is recognized when title and risk of loss passes to the customer, delivery is considered complete, and collectability is reasonably assured.

 

The Company provides the after-sales supporting services and charges the service fee on an annual basis. The service period is usually one year. Revenue related to its service is recognized as the services are performed and amounts are earned, using the straight-line method over the term of the related services agreement.

 

The Company’s revenues are derived from its gross billings and is reported on a gross basis since the Company is primarily obligated in the transaction, is subject to inventory and credit risk and has several but not all of the indicators that revenue should be recorded on the gross basis in accordance with ASC 605-45, “Overall Considerations of Reporting Revenue Gross as a Principal versus Net as an Agent.”

 

Prepayments received from customers prior to the services being performed are recorded as deferred revenue.

 

Advertising Expense

 

The Company expenses advertising costs as incurred and are included as part of selling expenses. Advertising expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2018 were $5,251 and $0, respectively.

 

Research and Development Expenses

 

The Company follows the guidance in FASB ASC 985-20, Cost of Software to Be Sold, Leased or Marketed, regarding software development costs to be sold, leased, or otherwise marketed. FASB ASC 985-20-25 requires research and development costs for software development to be expensed as incurred until the software model is technologically feasible. Technological feasibility is established when the enterprise has completed all planning, designing, coding, testing, and identification of risks activities necessary to establish that the product can be produced to meet its design specifications, features, functions, technical performance requirements. A certain amount of judgment and estimation is required to assess when technological feasibility is established, as well as the ongoing assessment of the recoverability of capitalized costs. The Company’s products reach technological feasibility shortly before the products are released and sold to the public. Therefore research and development costs are generally expensed as incurred.

 

Software development costs incurred and charged to research and development expense totaled $13,412 and $17,573 for the six months ended June 30, 2017 and 2018, respectively.

 

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The Company defers certain costs related to the software development activities associated with certain software which the Company has determined have future economic benefit. Management periodically reviews and revises, when necessary, its estimate of the future benefit of these costs and expenses them if it deems there no longer is a future benefit. The Company has two software development contracts (for internal use) (Finance and Taxation Service Platform Mobile Application and Corporate Full-Service Platform Mobile Application) which they are obligated to perform certain specific software development activities. The scope of the work includes analyzing and confirming the application requirements checklist provided by the Company, designing under user interface, coding, arranging/locating the servers, and launching. As of June 30, 2018, the total contract price was approximately $1.11 million and shall be paid using installment payment method (30% of the retainer, 50% at the beginning of the project, and 20% upon launching of the official version). The ownership of the final product belongs to the Company and the copyrights will be shared with the two software development companies. As of June 30, 2018, product development costs capitalized totaled $921,575 (included in advances to suppliers, net) and the Company’s commitments to additional costs under software development contracts amounted to $193,380 as of June 30, 2018.

 

Foreign Currency Translation

 

The functional currency of the Company’s operations in the PRC is the Chinese Yuan or Renminbi (“RMB”). The consolidated financial statements are translated to U.S. dollars using the period end rates of exchange for assets and liabilities, equity is translated at historical exchange rates, and average rates of exchange (for the period) are used for revenues and expenses and cash flows. As a result, amounts relating to assets and liabilities reported on the statements of cash flows may not necessarily agree with the changes in the corresponding balances on the balance sheets. Translation adjustments resulting from the process of translating the local currency financial statements into U.S. dollars are included in determining comprehensive income / loss. Transactions denominated in foreign currencies are translated into the functional currency at the exchange rates prevailing on the transaction dates. Assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies are translated into the functional currency at the exchange rates prevailing at the balance sheet date with any transaction gains and losses that arise from exchange rate fluctuations on transactions denominated in a currency other than the functional currency are included in the results of operations as incurred.

 

All of the Company’s revenue transactions are transacted in its functional currency. The Company does not enter into any material transaction in foreign currencies. Transaction gains or losses have not had, and are not expected to have, a material effect on the results of operations of the Company.

 

The exchange rates as of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017 and for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 are as follows:

 

    June 30,     December 31,     Six months ended June 30,  
    2018     2017     2018     2017  
Foreign currency   Balance Sheet     Balance Sheet     Profits/Loss     Profits/Loss  
RMB:1USD     6.6191       6.5064       6.36655       6.87433  

 

Comprehensive Income

 

Comprehensive income is comprised of net income (loss) and all changes to the statements of shareholders’ equity (deficit), except those due to investments by shareholders and changes in paid-in capital. For the Company, comprehensive income as of June 30, 2018, and December 31, 2017 consisted of net income and unrealized income (loss) from foreign currency translation adjustment.

 

Related Parties

 

A party is considered to be related to the Company if the party directly or indirectly or through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with the Company. Related parties also include principal owners of the Company, its management, members of the immediate families of principal owners of the Company and its management and other parties with which the Company may deal if one party controls or can significantly influence the management or operating policies of the other to an extent that one of the transacting parties might be prevented from fully pursuing its own separate interests. A party which can significantly influence the management or operating policies of the transacting parties or if it has an ownership interest in one of the transacting parties and can significantly influence the other to an extent that one or more of the transacting parties might be prevented from fully pursuing its own separate interests is also a related party.

 

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Recent Accounting Pronouncements

 

Recently issued accounting pronouncements

 

In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-17, “ASC 740-10-65-4, Balance Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes”. This guidance requires that all deferred tax assets and liabilities, along with any related valuation allowance, be classified as noncurrent on the balance sheet. The Company has prospectively adopted this guidance to its consolidated financial statements for the period ended June 30, 2018 and did not reclassified its balance sheet for the year ended December 31, 2017. Adoption of this guidance had no material impact on the results of operations or financial position.

 

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842) (“ASU 2016-2”) which revises accounting for operating leases by a lessee, among other changes, and requires a lessee to recognize a liability to make lease payments and an asset representing its right to use the underlying asset for the lease term in the balance sheet. This update will be effective for public entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim periods within those fiscal years. In July 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-10, Codification Improvements to Topic 842, Leases, to clarify how to apply certain aspects of the new leases standard. The amendments address the rate implicit in the lease, impairment of the net investment in the lease, lessee reassessment of lease classification, lessor reassessment of lease term and purchase options, variable payments that depend on an index or rate and certain transition adjustments, among other issues. In addition, in July 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-11,  Leases (Topic 842), Targeted Improvements, which provides an additional (and optional) transition method to adopt the new leases standard. Under the new transition method, a reporting entity would initially apply the new lease requirements at the effective date and recognize a cumulative-effect adjustment to the opening balance of retained earnings in the period of adoption, continue to report comparative periods presented in the financial statements in the period of adoption in accordance with current U.S. GAAP (i.e., ASC 840, Leases) and provide the required disclosures under ASC 840 for all periods presented under current U.S. GAAP.  A modified retrospective transition approach is required for lessees for capital and operating leases existing at, or entered into after, the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented in the financial statements, with certain practical expedients available. The Company plans to adopt these new guidance in the first quarter of fiscal year 2020 and is still evaluating the effect that this guidance will have on the Company’s financial statements and related disclosures.

 

The Company does not believe other recently issued but not yet effective accounting standards, if currently adopted, would have a material effect on the consolidated financial position, statements of operations and cash flows.

 

NOTE 3 – SHORT-TERM INVESTMENT

 

Short-term investments consisted of the following:

 

    June 30,     December 31,  
    2018     2017  
    (Unaudited)        
Short-term investments            
Trading equity securities   $ 180,896     $ 341,838  
Mutual fund     1,865,813       1,429,362  
Total   $ 2,046,709     $ 1,771,200  

 

Investment income (loss) for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 consists of the following:

 

    For the Six Months
Ended June 30,
 
    2018     2017  
   

(Unaudited)

   

(Unaudited)

 
Gain from sales of short-term investments:            
Trading equity securities   $ (138,289 )   $ 26,965  
Mutual fund     27,559       15,722  
Unrealized holding loss:                
Trading equity securities     (23,771 )     (59,209 )
Net investment income (loss)   $ (134,501 )   $ (16,522 )

 

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NOTE 4 – accounts receivable, NET

 

At June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, accounts receivable, net consisted of the following:

 

    June 30,     December 31,  
    2018     2017  
    (Unaudited)        
Accounts receivable   $ 2,090,415     $ 1,244,663  
Less: allowance for doubtful accounts     (358,297 )     (375,337 )
Total   $ 1,732,118     $ 869,326  

 

The Company reviews the outstanding receivable on a periodic basis and makes general and specific allowances when there is doubt as to the collectability of individual balances.

 

NOTE 5 – INVENTORIES, NET

 

At June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, inventories consisted of the following:

 

    June 30,     December 31,  
    2018     2017  
   

(Unaudited)

       
Inventory   $ 805,258     $ 328,065  
Less: reserve for obsolete inventories     (26,362 )     (50,496 )
Total   $ 778,896     $ 277,569  

 

Inventory includes computer, network hardware, and Golden Tax Disks. The Company reviews its inventories periodically to determine if any reserves are necessary for potential obsolescence or if a write-down is necessary if the carrying value exceeds net realizable value.

 

NOTE 6 – PROPERTY and equipment, net

 

At June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, property and equipment consisted of the following:

 

    June 30,     December 31,  
    2018     2017  
   

(Unaudited)

       
Office furniture   $ 5,360     $ 5,452  
Computer equipment     7,658       7,791  
Transportation equipment     70,541       71,763  
Buildings and improvements     468,261       476,373  
      551,820       561,379  
Less: accumulated depreciation     (318,709 )     (308,472 )
Net book value   $ 233,111     $ 252,907  

 

Depreciation expense for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 were $16,103 and $15,264, respectively.

 

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NOTE 7 – Taxes payable

 

At June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, taxes payable consisted of the following:

 

    June 30,     December 31,  
    2018     2017  
   

(Unaudited)

       
Value-added Tax payable   $ 262,506     $ 190,622  
Income tax payable     49,754       71,172  
Other taxes payable     24,482       11,130  
Total   $ 336,742     $ 272,925  

 

NOTE 8 – RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

 

The following represented related party balances as of June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017:

 

    June 30,     December 31,  
    2018     2017  
   

(Unaudited)

       
Due from related parties            
Beijing Longchen Building Decoration Engineering Company Limited (1)   $ -     $ 215,173  
    $ -     $ 215,173  
                 
Due to related party                
Fengqi (Beijing) Zhineng Technology Co., Ltd. (4)   $ 388     $ 13,009  
Shenping Yin (3)     -       155,376  
    $ 388     $ 168,385  
                 
Accounts receivable                
Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd. (2)   $ 395,099     $ 440,366  
Fengqi (Beijing) Zhineng Technology Co., Ltd. (4)     -       89,143  
Beijing Zhongzhe Yuantong Technology Co., Ltd. (5)     918,697       363,576  
    $ 1,313,796     $ 893,085  

 

    For the Six Months
Ended June 30,
 
    2018     2017  
   

(Unaudited)

    (Unaudited)  
Sales            
Beijing Zhongzhe Yuantong Technology Co., Ltd. (5)     499,896       26,228  
  $ 499,896     $ 26,228  

 

(1) Beijing Longchen Building Decoration Engineering Company Limited is 80% owned by Mr. Shenrui Yin who is the brother of the Company’s Chairman, Mr. Shenping Yin (“Mr. Yin”). The loan was fully repaid on April 27, 2018.

 

(2) Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Baotou Zhongzhe”) is a minority shareholder of HiTek.

 

(3) Mr. Yin is the Company’s Chairman and the loan is for working capital purpose and due on demand at no interest. The loan was fully repaid as of June 30, 2018.

 

(4) Mr. Yin is the director and a minority shareholder of Fengqi (Beijing) Zhineng Technology Co., Ltd.

 

(5) Beijing Zhongzhe Yuantong Technology Co., Ltd. (“Beijing Zhongzhe”) and Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd (described (2) above) are under common control.

 

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NOTE 9 – ACCRUED EXPENSES AND OTHER CURRENT LIABILITIES

 

At June 30, 2018 and December 31, 2017, accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following:

 

    June 30,     December 31,  
    2018     2017  
   

(Unaudited)

       
Payroll   $ 207,064     $ 251,681  
Other payable     1,905       1,816  
Total   $ 208,969     $ 253,497  

 

NOTE 10 – INCOME TAXES

 

The entities within the Company file separate tax returns in the respective tax jurisdictions in which they operate.

 

Cayman Islands

The Company is a tax-exempt entity incorporated in Cayman Islands.

 

Hong Kong

HiTek Hong Kong Limited was incorporated in Hong Kong and does not conduct any substantial operations of its own. No provision for Hong Kong profits tax has been made in the consolidated financial statements as HiTek Hong Kong Limited has no assessable profits for the year ended June 30, 2018.

 

China

The Company’s PRC operating subsidiary and VIEs, being incorporated in the PRC, are governed by the income tax law of the PRC and is subject to PRC enterprise income tax (“EIT”). The EIT rate of PRC is 25%, which applies to both domestic and foreign invested enterprises. One of the Company’s subsidiaries located in the Xinjiang Huoerguosi special development zones, Huoerguosi, is currently exempt from corporate income tax in China from January 1, 2017 to December 31, 2020.

 

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Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. The VIEs located in PRC are subject to examination in China and tax years for 2015 through 2017 are still open for examination in China.

 

Following is a reconciliation of income tax expense at the effective rate to income tax at the calculated statutory rates:

 

    For the Six Months
Ended June 30,
 
    2018     2017  
    (Unaudited)    

(Unaudited)

 
PRC statutory tax rate     25 %     25 %
Permanent difference     (10.7 )%     (17.8 )%
Temporary difference     7.9 %     19.2 %
Tax holiday effect     (9.8 )%     -  
Effective tax rate     12.4 %     26.4 %

 

The decrease of the effectively tax rate was mainly because of the tax holiday effect from Huoerguosi. Huoerguosi’s net income before tax for the six months ended June 30, 2018 was $571,675 and the income tax exemption impact is approximate $143,000.

 

Uncertain Tax Positions

 

The Company did not have significant unrecognized uncertain tax positions or any unrecognized liabilities, interest or penalties associated with unrecognized tax benefit as of and for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and for the years ended December 31, 2017.

 

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NOTE 11 – EARNINGS PER SHARE

 

The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share for the periods presented:

 

    For the Six Months
Ended June 30,
 
    2018     2017  
   

(Unaudited)

   

(Unaudited)

 
Numerator:            
Net income   $ 1,273,339     $ 963,115  
Denominator:                
Weighted-average shares used in computing basic and diluted net income per share*     10,987,679       10,987,679  
Net income per share of ordinary shares: -basic and diluted*   $ 0.12     $ 0.09  

 

*On November 3, 2017 and December 16, 2017, the Company issued an aggregate of 10,987,679 ordinary shares in connection with the reorganization (Note 1). All references to numbers of ordinary shares and per-share data in the accompanying consolidated financial statements have been adjusted to reflect such issuance of shares on a retrospective basis.

 

NOTE 12 – CONCENTRATIONS

 

Major Customers

 

For the six months ended June 30, 2018, two customers represented approximately 12% and 13% of HiTek’s revenue and one customer which is a related party of the HiTek represented approximately 14% of HiTek’s revenue. At June 30, 2018, Two customers accounted for 41% of the Company’s trade accounts receivable, net and two customers which are related parties of the Hitek accounted for 39% of the Company’s trade accounts receivable, net.

 

For the six months ended June 30, 2017, one customer represented approximately 21% of the Company’s revenue. At June 30, 2017, One customer accounted for 19% of the Company’s trade accounts receivable, net and two customers which are related parties of the Hitek accounted for 32% of the Company’s trade accounts receivable.

 

Major Suppliers

 

For the six months ended June 30, 2018, one supplier accounted for 10% of the total purchases. At June 30, 2018, three suppliers accounted for 57% of the Company’s trade accounts payable.

 

For the six months ended June 30, 2017, one supplier accounted for 11% of the total purchases. At June 30, 2017, one supplier accounted for 23% of the Company’s trade accounts payable.

 

NOTE 13 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCY

 

Lease Obligations

 

The Company leases certain office premises and apartments for employees under operating lease agreements with various terms through March 9, 2020. Future minimum lease payments under the operating lease agreements are as follows:

 

    Amount  
   

(Unaudited)

 
Twelve months ending December 31,      
       
2018   $ 51,380  
2019     46,330  
2020     3,535  
    $ 101,245  

 

Rental expense for the six months ended June 30, 2018 and 2017 were $47,241 and $40,141, respectively.

 

Underwriter Agreement

 

On January 16, 2018, Hitek entered into an agreement with Boustead Securities, LLC (“Boustead” or” underwriter”) and signed an amendment No. 1 to engagement with Boustead Securities, LLC at November 20, 2018. Boustead was engaged to act as the exclusive financial advisor to Hitek and its affiliates and subsidiaries in connection with Hitek’s planned initial public offering (“IPO”). The agreement will be expired in one year and can be terminated with mutual written agreement. For any extension of this agreement, Boustead will be paid an extension advisory fee of $40,000.

 

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Success Fee

 

For any debt financing, Boustead will receive a cash success fee equal to 4% of the gross proceeds received and warrants to purchase the Company’s Class A Ordinary Shares equal to 4% of the gross proceeds received, exercisable at the strike price equal to 100% of the fair market value price of the Class A Ordinary Shares. The warrants will be exercisable within two and half year from the from issuance and also can be exercisable on a cashless basis. For any equity investment into the Company, Boustead will receive a cash success fee equal to six percent (6%) of the first $10,000,000 and five and one half percent (5.5%) of any amount in excess thereof and warrants to purchase the Company’s Class A Ordinary Shares equal to 6% of the gross proceeds received. The warrant will be exercisable at the strike price equal to 100% of the lower of the fair market value price of the Class A Ordinary Shares or the price paid by investors in the financing for the Company.  The warrants will be exercisable within two and half year from the issuance and also can be exercisable on a cashless basis.

 

Advisory Fee

 

Hitek agrees to pay Boustead a total of $75,000 as an advisory fee in two installments. $25,000 is payable upon the filing of an application for listing on NASDAQ, the NYSE or the NYSE American national securities exchanges and $50,000 is payable upon the close of the IPO.  In addition, Hitek shall pay Boustead $25,000 as advanced expense against its out-of-pocket accountable expenses that Hitek and Boustead anticipate will be incurred. The advance will be returned to Hitek to the extent such out-of-pocket accountable expenses are not actually incurred.

 

Risks in relation to the VIE structure

 

It is possible that the Company’s operation of certain of its operations and businesses through its VIE could be found by PRC authorities to be in violation of PRC law and regulations prohibiting or restricting foreign ownership of companies that engage in such operations and businesses. While the Company’s management considers the possibility of such a finding by PRC regulatory authorities under current law and regulations to be remote, on January 19, 2015, the Ministry of Commerce of the PRC, or (the “MOFCOM”) released on its Website for public comment a proposed PRC law (the “Draft FIE Law”) that appears to include VIE within the scope of entities that could be considered to be foreign invested enterprises (or “FIEs”) that would be subject to restrictions under existing PRC law on foreign investment in certain categories of industry. Specifically, the Draft FIE Law introduces the concept of “actual control” for determining whether an entity is considered to be an FIE. In addition to control through direct or indirect ownership or equity, the Draft FIE Law includes control through contractual arrangements within the definition of “actual control.” If the Draft FIE Law is passed by the People’s Congress of the PRC and goes into effect in its current form, these provisions regarding control through contractual arrangements could be construed to reach the Company’s VIE arrangements, and as a result the Company’s VIE could become explicitly subject to the current restrictions on foreign investment in certain categories of industry. If a finding were made by PRC authorities, under existing law and regulations or under the Draft FIE Law if it becomes effective, about the Company’s operation of certain of its operations and businesses through its VIEs, regulatory authorities with jurisdiction over the licensing and operation of such operations and businesses would have broad discretion in dealing with such a violation, including levying fines, confiscating the Company’s income, revoking the business or operating licenses of the affected businesses, requiring the Company to restructure its ownership structure or operations, or requiring the Company to discontinue all or any portion of its operations. Any of these actions could cause significant disruption to the Company’s business operations, and have a severe adverse impact on the Company’s cash flows, financial position and operating performance.

 

In addition, it is possible that the contracts among WFOE, HiTek and HiTek’s shareholders would not be enforceable in China if PRC government authorities or courts were to find that such contracts contravene PRC laws and regulations or are otherwise not enforceable for public policy reasons. In the event that the Company was unable to enforce these contractual arrangements, the Company would not be able to exert effective control over the VIEs. Consequently, the VIEs’ results of operations, assets and liabilities would not be included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements. If such were the case, the Company’s cash flows, financial position, and operating performance would be materially adversely affected. The Company’s contractual arrangements WFOE, HiTek and HiTek’s shareholders are approved and in place. Management believes that such contracts are enforceable, and considers the possibility remote that PRC regulatory authorities with jurisdiction over the Company’s operations and contractual relationships would find the contracts to be unenforceable.

 

The Company’s operations and businesses rely on the operations and businesses of its VIEs, which hold certain recognized revenue-producing assets. The VIEs also have an assembled workforce, focused primarily on research and development, whose costs are expensed as incurred. The Company’s operations and businesses may be adversely impacted if the Company loses the ability to use and enjoy assets held by its VIE.

 

NOTE 14 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

The Company evaluated subsequent events and transactions that occurred after the balance sheet date through November 20, 2018, the date that the consolidated financial statements were available to be issued. With the exception of those matters discussed in Notes 13, there were no material subsequent events that required recognition or additional disclosure in these consolidated financial statements.

 

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PART II

  

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

ITEM 6. INDEMNIFICATION OF DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS.

 

Cayman Islands law does not limit the extent to which a company’s articles of association may provide for indemnification of officers and directors, except to the extent any such provision may be held by the Cayman Islands courts to be contrary to public policy, such as to provide indemnification against civil fraud or the consequences of committing a crime. Our amended and restated articles of association, which will become effective upon completion of this offering, provide to the extent permitted by law, we shall indemnify each existing or former secretary, director (including alternate director), and any of our other officers (including an investment adviser or an administrator or liquidator) and their personal representatives against:

 

(a) all actions, proceedings, costs, charges, expenses, losses, damages or liabilities incurred or sustained by the existing or former secretary or officer in or about the conduct of our business or affairs or in the execution or discharge of the existing or former secretary’s or officer’s duties, powers, authorities or discretions; and

 

(b) without limitation to paragraph (a) above, all costs, expenses, losses or liabilities incurred by the existing or former secretary or officer in defending (whether successfully or otherwise) any civil, criminal, administrative or investigative proceedings (whether threatened, pending or completed) concerning us or our affairs in any court or tribunal, whether in the Cayman Islands or elsewhere.

 

No such existing or former secretary or officer, however, shall be indemnified in respect of any matter arising out of his own dishonesty.

 

To the extent permitted by law, we may make a payment, or agree to make a payment, whether by way of advance, loan or otherwise, for any legal costs incurred by an existing or former secretary or any of our officers in respect of any matter identified in above on condition that the secretary or officer must repay the amount paid by us to the extent that it is ultimately found not liable to indemnify the secretary or that officer for those legal costs.

 

The Underwriting Agreement, the form of which has been filed as Exhibit 1.1 to this Registration Statement, will also provide for indemnification of us and our officers and directors.

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended may be permitted to directors, officers or persons controlling us pursuant to the foregoing provisions, we have been informed that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable.

 

ITEM 7. RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES.

 

On November 3, 2017 and December 16, 2017, the Company issued an aggregate of 10,987,679 ordinary shares to Fortune Enterprise Holdings Limited, Star Discover Global Limited, Oriental Xinhe Holdings Limited, Luotec Information Limited, Lintec Information Limited, Tians Technology Limited, Centurion Tech Holdings Limited, Eternal Blessing Holdings Limited and Circatrade Universal Holdings Limited as inducements for them to enter into the VIE Agreements pursuant to which the Company shall obtain absolute control rights and the rights to the assets, property and revenue of HiTek. The issuance was conducted in private transactions under Cayman Islands laws.

 

ITEM 8. EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES.

 

(a) Exhibits

 

See Exhibit Index beginning on page II-4 of this registration statement.

 

(b) Financial Statement Schedules

 

Schedules have been omitted because the information required to be set forth therein is not applicable or is shown in the Consolidated Financial Statements or the Notes thereto.

 

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ITEM 9. UNDERTAKINGS.

 

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to provide to the underwriters at the closing specified in the underwriting agreement, certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriter to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.

 

Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to the provisions described in Item 6, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is therefore unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

 

The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that:

 

(1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant under Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.

 

(2) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

(3) For the purpose of determining liability under the Securities Act to any purchaser, each prospectus filed pursuant to Rule 424(b) as part of a registration statement relating to an offering, other than registration statements relying on Rule 430B or other than prospectuses filed in reliance on Rule 430A, shall be deemed to be part of and included in the registration statement as of the date it is first used after effectiveness. Provided, however, that no statement made in a registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement or made in a document incorporated or deemed incorporated by reference into the registration statement or prospectus that is part of the registration statement will, as to a purchaser with a time of contract of sale prior to such first use, supersede or modify any statement that was made in the registration statement or prospectus that was part of the registration statement or made in any such document immediately prior to such date of first use.

 

(4) For the purpose of determining any liability of the registrant under the Securities Act to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

 

(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424;

 

(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

 

(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

 

(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form F-1 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Xiamen, People’s Republic of China, November 20, 2018.

 

HiTek Global Inc.

 

  By: /s/ Xiaoyang Huang
    Xiaoyang Huang
    Chief Executive Officer
    (Principal Executive Officer)

 

    /s/ Tianyu Xia
    Tianyu Xia
    Chief Financial Officer
    (Principal Accounting and Financial Officer)

 

Signature   Capacity   Date
         
/s/ Xiaoyang Huang   Chief Executive Officer and Director  

November 20, 2018

Xiaoyang Huang        
         
  Chairman of the Board  

November 20, 2018

Shenping Yin        
         
/s/ Tianyu Xia   Chief Financial Officer  

November 20, 2018

Tianyu Xia

       
         
*   Chief Technology Officer  

November 20, 2018

Bo Shi        
         
*   Director  

November 20, 2018

Wenhua Yang        
         
*   Director  

November 20, 2018

Jianben Song        
         
*   Director  

November 20, 2018

Jianzhong Lin        

  

* By: /s/ Xiaoyang Huang  
  Attorney-in-fact  

 

SIGNATURE OF AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE IN THE UNITED STATES

 

Pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933 as amended, the undersigned, the duly authorized representative in the United States of America, has signed this registration statement thereto in New York, NY on November 20, 2018.

 

Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li LLC

  

  By: /s/ Joan Wu
    Name: Joan Wu
    Title: Partner

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.   Description
1.1   Form of Underwriting Agreement**
3.1   Articles of Association***
3.2   Memorandum of Association***
3.3   Amended and Restated Memorandum and Articles of Association **
4.1   Specimen Certificate for Ordinary Shares**
5.1   Opinion of Maples regarding the validity of the Ordinary Shares being registered*
8.1   Opinion of Jingtian & Gongcheng regarding certain PRC tax matters (included in Exhibit 99.2) **
8.2   Opinion of Hunter Taubman Fischer & Li LLC regarding certain U.S. Federal Income Taxation matters**
10.1   Employment Agreement by and between CEO Xiaoyang Huang and the Company on July 1, 2018*
10.2  

Employment Agreement by and between CTO Bo Shi and the Company on July 1, 2018*

10.3   Employment Agreement by and between CFO Tianyu Xia and the Company on September 2, 2018*
10.4   Exclusive Technical Consultation and Service Agreement dated March 31, 2018, between WFOE and HiTek***
10.5   Equity Interests Pledge Agreement dated March 31, 2018, between WFOE and Huang Xiaoyang, Yin Shenping, Shi Bo, Wang Zhishuang, Huang Liuqing, Li Jingru, Tang Mian, Tian Ce, Lin Xianfeng, Inner Mongolia Guangxin Investment Co., Ltd., Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd. ***
10.6   Exclusive Equity Interests Purchase Agreement dated March 31, 2018, amongst WFOE, Huang Xiaoyang, Yin Shenping, Shi Bo, Wang Zhishuang, Huang Liuqing, Li Jingru, Tang Mian, Tian Ce, Lin Xianfeng, Inner Mongolia Guangxin Investment Co., Ltd., Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd., and HiTek***
10.7   Form of Power of Attorney dated March 31, 2018, between WFO and Huang Xiaoyang, Yin Shenping, Shi Bo, Wang Zhishuang, Huang Liuqing, Li Jingru, Tang Mian, Tian Ce, Lin Xianfeng, Inner Mongolia Guangxin Investment Co., Ltd., Baotou Zhongzhe Hengtong Technology Co., Ltd. ***
10.8   Form of Escrow Deposit Agreement by and between the Registrant and [●]**
10.9   Lease Agreement dated June 19, 2018, between the Registrant and Xiamen Chengsen Computer System Engineering Co., Ltd.**
23.1   UHY LLP consent*
23.2   Consent of Maples (included in Exhibit 5.1) *
23.3   Consent of Jingtian & Gongcheng (included in Exhibit 99.2) **
99.1   Code of Business Conduct and Ethics of the Registrant**
99.2   Opinion of Jingtian & Gongcheng, People’s Republic of China counsel to the Registrant, regarding certain PRC law matters and the validity of the VIE agreements**

 

* Filed herewith.
** To be filed by amendment.
*** Previously filed

 

 

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Exhibit 5.1

 

 

 

Our ref              MUL/742937-000001/54992060v4

 

Hitek Global Inc.

PO Box 309, Ugland House

Grand Cayman

KY1-1104

Cayman Islands

 

19 November 2018

 

Dear Sirs

 

Hitek Global Inc.

 

We have acted as Cayman Islands counsel to Hitek Global Inc. (the “Company”) in connection with the Company’s registration statement on Form F-1, including all amendments or supplements thereto, filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) under the United States Securities Act of 1933 as amended (the “Act”) (including its exhibits, the “Registration Statement”) related to the offering and sale of up to 3,000,000 Class A Ordinary Shares of a par value of US$0.0001 each of the Company (the “Shares”). This opinion letter is given in accordance with the terms of the Legal Matters section of the Registration Statement.

 

1 Documents Reviewed

 

We have reviewed originals, copies, drafts or conformed copies of the following documents:

 

1.1 The certificate of incorporation dated 3 November 2017 and the memorandum and articles of association of the Company as registered or adopted on 3 November 2017 (the “Memorandum and Articles”) and the amended and restated memorandum and articles of association of the Company to be adopted by special resolution to be effective immediately before the listing of the Shares (the “Listing”) (the “IPO Memorandum and Articles”).

 

1.2 The written resolutions of the board of directors of the Company dated 3 October 2018 (the “Resolutions”) and the corporate records of the Company maintained at its registered office in the Cayman Islands.

  

Maples and Calder

PO Box 309 Ugland House Grand Cayman KY1-1104 Cayman Islands

Tel +1 345 949 8066 Fax +1 345 949 8080 maplesandcalder.corn

 

 

 

1.3 The draft written resolutions of all the shareholders of the Company (the “Shareholder Resolutions”) which includes a resolution to re-designate the authorised (and issued) share capital of the Company in the manner therein described effective on the Listing.

 

1.4 A certificate of good standing with respect to the Company issued by the Registrar of Companies (the “Certificate of Good Standing”).

 

1.5 A certificate from a director of the Company a copy of which is attached to this opinion letter (the “Director’s Certificate”).

 

1.6 The Registration Statement.

 

2       Assumptions

 

The following opinions are given only as to, and based on, circumstances and matters of fact existing and known to us on the date of this opinion letter. These opinions only relate to the laws of the Cayman Islands which are in force on the date of this opinion letter. In giving the following opinions, we have relied (without further verification) upon the completeness and accuracy, as at the date of this opinion letter, of the Director’s Certificate and the Certificate of Good Standing. We have also relied upon the following assumptions, which we have not independently verified:

 

2.1 Copies of documents, conformed copies or drafts of documents provided to us are true and complete copies of, or in the final forms of, the originals.

 

2.2 All signatures, initials and seals are genuine.

 

2.3 There is nothing under any law (other than the laws of the Cayman Islands) which would or might affect the opinions set out below. Specifically, we have made no independent investigation of the laws of the State of New York.

 

2.4 No invitation has been or will be made by or on behalf of the Company to the public in the Cayman Islands to subscribe for any of the Shares.

 

2.5 The Company will receive money or money’s worth in consideration for the issue of the Shares, and none of the Shares were or will be issued for less than par value.

 

2.6 The Shareholder Resolutions will be passed in the manner prescribed in the Memorandum and Articles and will not be amended, varied or revoked in any respect.

 

2.7 At the time of the Listing, the IPO Memorandum and Articles will be in full force and effect and will be unamended. Save as aforesaid we have not been instructed to undertake and have not undertaken any further enquiry or due diligence in relation to the transaction the subject of this opinion letter.

 

3 Opinions

 

Based upon, and subject to, the foregoing assumptions and the qualifications set out below, and having regard to such legal considerations as we deem relevant, we are of the opinion that:

 

3.1 The Company has been duly incorporated as an exempted company with limited liability and is validly existing and in good standing with the Registrar of Companies under the laws of the Cayman Islands.

  

2

 

 

3.2 Based solely on Director’s Certificate and our review of the IPO Memorandum and Articles, upon the IPO Memorandum and Articles and the Shareholder Resolution becoming effective, the authorised share capital of the Company will be US$50,000 divided into 400,000,000 Class A ordinary shares of a par value of US$0.0001 each, 90,000,000 Class B ordinary shares of a par value of US$0.0001 each and 10,000,000 preference shares of a par value of US$0.0001 each.

 

3.3 The Shares to be offered and issued by the Company as contemplated by the Registration Statement will be authorised for issue, and when issued by the Company against payment in full of the consideration as set out in the Registration Statement and in accordance with the terms set out in the Registration Statement, such Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable. As a matter of Cayman Islands law, a share is only issued when it has been entered in the register of members (shareholders).

 

4       Qualifications

 

The opinions expressed above are subject to the following qualifications:

 

4.1 To maintain the Company in good standing with the Registrar of Companies under the laws of the Cayman Islands, annual filing fees must be paid and returns made to the Registrar of Companies within the time frame prescribed by law.

 

4.2 Under Cayman Islands law, the register of members (shareholders) is prima facie evidence of title to shares and this register would not record a third party interest in such shares. However, there are certain limited circumstances where an application may be made to a Cayman Islands court for a determination on whether the register of members reflects the correct legal position. Further, the Cayman Islands court has the power to order that the register of members maintained by a company should be rectified where it considers that the register of members does not reflect the correct legal position. As far as we are aware, such applications are rarely made in the Cayman Islands and for the purposes of the opinion given in paragraph 3.3, there are no circumstances or matters of fact known to us on the date of this opinion letter which would properly form the basis for an application for an order for rectification of the register of members of the Company, but if such an application were made in respect of the Company’s Shares, then the validity of such shares may be subject to re-examination by a Cayman Islands court.

 

4.3 In this opinion letter, the phrase “non-assessable” means, with respect to the Shares, that a shareholder shall not, solely by virtue of its status as a shareholder, be liable for additional assessments or calls on the Shares by the Company or its creditors (except in exceptional circumstances, such as involving fraud, the establishment of an agency relationship or an illegal or improper purpose or other circumstance in which a court may be prepared to pierce or lift the corporate veil).

 

Except as specifically stated herein, we make no comment with respect to any representations and warranties which may be made by or with respect to the Company in any of the documents or instruments cited in this opinion letter or otherwise with respect to the commercial terms of the transactions the subject of this opinion letter.

 

We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion letter as an exhibit to the Registration Statement and to the reference to our firm under the heading “Legal Matters” in the prospectus included in the Registration Statement. In providing our consent, we do not thereby admit that we are in the category of persons whose consent is required under Section 7 of the Act or the Rules and Regulations of the Commission thereunder.

 

This opinion letter is addressed to you and may be relied upon by you, your counsel, the holders of the Shares. This opinion letter is limited to the matters detailed herein and is not to be read as an opinion with respect to any other matter.

  

Yours faithfully  
   
/s/ Maples and Calder  
Maples and Calder  

   

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Exhibit 10.1

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

This EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (the “ Agreement” ), is entered into as of July 1, 2018 (the “ Effective Date ”), by and between Hitek Global, Inc., incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “ Company ”), and Xiaoyang Huang, an individual (the “ Chief Executive Officer (CEO) ”). Except with respect to the direct employment of the CEO by the Company, the term “Company” as used herein with respect to all obligations of the CEO hereunder shall be deemed to include the Company and all of its subsidiaries and affiliated entities (collectively, the “ Group ”).

 

RECITALS

 

A. The Company desires to employ Xiaoyang Huang as its CEO and to assure itself of the services of the CEO during the term of Employment (as defined below).

 

B. Xiaoyang Huang desires to be employed by the Company as its CEO during the term of Employment and upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

 

AGREEMENT

 

The parties hereto agree as follows:

 

1. POSITION

 

Xiaoyang Huang hereby accepts a position of CEO (the “ Employment ”) of the Company.

 

2. TERM

 

Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the initial term of the Employment shall be one year commencing on the Effective Date, unless terminated earlier pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. The Employment will be renewed automatically for an additional one-year term if neither the Company nor the CEO provides a notice of termination of the Employment to the other party or otherwise proposes to re-negotiate the terms of the Employment with the other party within three months prior to the expiration of the applicable term.

 

3. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 

(a) The CEO’s duties at the Company will include all jobs assigned by the Company’s Board of the Directors (the “ Board ”).

 

(b) The CEO shall devote all of her working time, attention and skills to the performance of her duties at the Company and shall faithfully and diligently serve the Company in accordance with this Agreement, the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Company, as amended and restated from time to time (the “ Charter Documents ”), and the guidelines, policies and procedures of the Company approved from time to time by the Board.

 

(c) The CEO shall use her best efforts to perform her duties hereunder. The CEO shall not, without the prior written consent of the Board, become an employee of any entity other than the Company and any subsidiary or affiliate of the Company, and shall not be concerned or interested in any business or entity that engages in the same business in which the Company engages (any such business or entity, a “ Competitor ”), provided that nothing in this clause shall preclude the CEO from holding any shares or other securities of any Competitor that is listed on any securities exchange or recognized securities market anywhere if such shares or securities represent less than 5% of the competitors outstanding shares and securities. The CEO shall notify the Company in writing of her interest in such shares or securities in a timely manner and with such details and particulars as the Company may reasonably require.

 

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4. NO BREACH OF CONTRACT

 

The CEO hereby represents to the Company that: (i) the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the CEO and the performance by the CEO of the CEO’s duties hereunder shall not constitute a breach of, or otherwise contravene, the terms of any other agreement or policy to which the CEO is a party or otherwise bound, except for agreements entered into by and between the CEO and any member of the Group pursuant to applicable law, if any; (ii) that the CEO has no information (including, without limitation, confidential information and trade secrets) relating to any other person or entity which would prevent, or be violated by, the CEO entering into this Agreement or carrying out her duties hereunder; (iii) that the CEO is not bound by any confidentiality, trade secret or similar agreement (other than this) with any other person or entity except for other member(s) of the Group, as the case may be.

 

5. Intentionally Omitted

  

6. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

 

(a) Base Salary.  The CEO’s initial base salary shall be $70,000 and such compensation is subject to annual review and adjustment by the Board.

 

(b) Bonus . The CEO shall be eligible for Bonuses determined by the Board.

 

(c) Equity Incentives . To the extent the Company adopts and maintains a share incentive plan, the CEO will be eligible to participate in such plan pursuant to the terms thereof as determined by the Board.

 

(d) Benefits . The CEO is eligible for participation in any standard employee benefit plan of the Company that currently exists or may be adopted by the Company in the future, including, but not limited to, any retirement plan, life insurance plan, health insurance plan and travel/holiday plan.

 

(e) Expenses . The CEO shall be entitled to reimbursement by the Company for all reasonable ordinary and necessary travel and other expenses incurred by the CEO in the performance of her duties under this Agreement; provided that she properly accounts for such expenses in accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures.

 

7. TERMINATION OF THE AGREEMENT

 

(a) By the Company.

 

(i)  For Cause . The Company may terminate the Employment for cause, at any time, without notice or remuneration (unless notice or remuneration is specifically required by applicable law, in which case notice or remuneration will be provided in accordance with applicable law), if:

 

(1) the CEO is convicted or pleads guilty to a felony or to an act of fraud, misappropriation or embezzlement,

 

(2) the CEO has been grossly negligent or acted dishonestly to the detriment of the Company,

 

(3) the CEO has engaged in actions amounting to willful misconduct or failed to perform her duties hereunder and such failure continues after the CEO is afforded a reasonable opportunity to cure such failure; or

 

(4) the CEO violates Section 8 or 10 of this Agreement.

 

Upon termination for cause, the CEO shall be entitled to the amount of base salary earned and not paid prior to termination. However, the CEO will not be entitled to receive payment of any severance benefits or other amounts by reason of the termination, and the CEO’s right to all other benefits will terminate, except as required by any applicable law.

 

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(ii)  For death and disability . The Company may also terminate the Employment, at any time, without notice or remuneration (unless notice or remuneration is specifically required by applicable law, in which case notice or remuneration will be provided in accordance with applicable law), if:

 

(1) the CEO has died, or

 

(2) the CEO has a disability which shall mean a physical or mental impairment which, as reasonably determined by the Board, renders the CEO unable to perform the essential functions of her employment with the Company, with or without reasonable accommodation, for more than 120 days in any 12-month period, unless a longer period is required by applicable law, in which case that longer period would apply.

 

Upon termination for death or disability, the CEO shall be entitled to the amount of base salary earned and not paid prior to termination. However, the CEO will not be entitled to receive payment of any severance benefits or other amounts by reason of the termination, and the CEO’s right to all other benefits will terminate, except as required by any applicable law.

 

(iii)  Without Cause . The Company may terminate the Employment without cause, at any time, upon one-month prior written notice. Upon termination without cause, the Company shall provide the following severance payments and benefits to the CEO: (1) a lump sum cash payment equal to 12 months of the CEO’s base salary as of the date of such termination; (2) a lump sum cash payment equal to a pro-rated amount of her target annual bonus for the year immediately preceding the termination, if any; (3) payment of premiums for continued health benefits under the Company’s health plans for 12 months fo1lowing the termination, if any; and (4) immediate vesting of 100% of the then-unvested portion of any outstanding equity awards held by the CEO.  

 

Upon termination without, the CEO shall be entitled to the amount of base salary earned and not paid prior to termination.

 

(iv)  Change of Control Transaction . If the Company or its successor terminates the Employment upon a merger, consolidation, or transfer or sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company with or to any other individual(s) or entity (the “ Change of Control Transaction ”), the CEO shall be entitled to the following severance payments and benefits upon such termination: (1) a lump sum cash payment equal to 12  months of the CEO’s base salary at a rate equal to the greater of her/her annual salary in effect immediate1y prior to the termination, or her/her then current annua1 salary as of the date of such termination; (2) a lump sum cash payment equal to a pro-rated amount of her/her target annual bonus for the year immediately preceding the termination; (3) payment of premiums for continued health benefits under the Company’s health plans for 12 months fo1lowing the termination; and (4) immediate vesting of 100% of the then-unvested portion of any outstanding equity awards held by the CEO.  

 

(b) By the CEO . The CEO may terminate the Employment at any time with a one-month prior written notice to the Company, if (1) there is a material reduction in the CEO’s authority, duties and responsibilities, or (2) there is a material reduction in the CEO’s annual salary. Upon the CEO’s termination of the Employment due to either of the above reasons, the Company shall provide compensation to the CEO equivalent to 12 months of the CEO’s base salary that she is entitled to immediately prior to such termination. In addition, the CEO may resign prior to the expiration of the Agreement if such resignation is approved by the Board or an alternative arrangement with respect to the Employment is agreed to by the Board.

   

(c) Notice of Termination.  Any termination of the CEO’s employment under this Agreement shall be communicated by written notice of termination from the terminating party to the other party. The notice of termination shall indicate the specific provision(s) of this Agreement relied upon in effecting the termination.

 

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8. CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-DISCLOSURE

 

(a) Confidentiality and Non-disclosure . The CEO hereby agrees at all times during the term of the Employment and after her termination, to hold in the strictest confidence, and not to use, except for the benefit of the Company, or to disclose to any person, corporation or other entity without prior written consent of the Company, any Confidential Information. The CEO understands that “ Confidential Information ” means any proprietary or confidential information of the Company, its affiliates, or their respective clients, customers or partners, including, without limitation, technical data, trade secrets, research and development information, product plans, services, customer lists and customers, supplier lists and suppliers, software developments, inventions, processes, formulas, technology, designs, hardware configuration information, personnel information, marketing, finances, information about the suppliers, joint ventures, francherees, distributors and other persons with whom the Company does business, information regarding the skills and compensation of other employees of the Company or other business information disclosed to the CEO by or obtained by the CEO from the Company, its affiliates, or their respective clients, customers or partners, either directly or indirectly, in writing, orally or otherwise, if specifically indicated to be confidential or reasonably expected to be confidential. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential Information shall not include information that is generally available and known to the public through no fault of the CEO.

 

(b) Company Property . The CEO understands that all documents (including computer records, facsimile and e-mail) and materials created, received or transmitted in connection with her work or using the facilities of the Company are property of the Company and subject to inspection by the Company at any time. Upon termination of the CEO’s employment with the Company (or at any other time when requested by the Company), the CEO will promptly deliver to the Company all documents and materials of any nature pertaining to her work with the Company and will provide written certification of her compliance with this Agreement. Under no circumstances will the CEO have, following her   termination, in her possession any property of the Company, or any documents or materials or copies thereof containing any Confidential Information.

 

(c) Former Employer Information . The CEO agrees that she has not and will not, during the term of her employment, (i) improperly use or disclose any proprietary information or trade secrets of any former employer or other person or entity with which the CEO has an agreement or duty to keep in confidence information acquired by CEO, if any, or (ii) bring into the premises of the Company any document or confidential or proprietary information belonging to such former employer, person or entity unless consented to in writing by such former employer, person or entity. The CEO will indemnify the Company and hold it harmless from and against all claims, liabilities, damages and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of suit, arising out of or in connection with any violation of the foregoing.

 

(d) Third Party Information . The CEO recognizes that the Company may have received, and in the future may receive, from third parties their confidential or proprietary information subject to a duty on the Company’s part to maintain the confidentiality of such information and to use it only for certain limited purposes. The CEO agrees that the CEO owes the Company and such third parties, during the CEO’s employment by the Company and thereafter, a duty to hold all such confidential or proprietary information in the strictest confidence and not to disclose it to any person or firm and to use it in a manner consistent with, and for the limited purposes permitted by, the Company’s agreement with such third party.

 

This Section 8 shall survive the termination of this Agreement for any reason. In the event the CEO breaches this Section 8, the Company shall have right to seek remedies permissible under applicable law.

 

9. CONFLICTING EMPLOYMENT.

 

The CEO hereby agrees that, during the term of her employment with the Company, she will not engage in any other employment, occupation, consulting or other business activity related to the business in which the Company is now involved or becomes involved during the term of the CEO’s employment, nor will the CEO engage in any other activities that conflict with her obligations to the Company without the prior written consent of the Company.

 

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10. NON-COMPETITION AND NON-SOLICITATION

 

In consideration of the salary paid to the CEO by the Company and subject to applicable law, the CEO agrees that during the term of the Employment and for a period of one (1) year following the termination of the Employment for whatever reason:

 

(a) The CEO will not approach clients, customers or contacts of the Company or other persons or entities introduced to the CEO in the CEO’s capacity as a representative of the Company for the purposes of doing business with such persons or entities which will harm the business relationship between the Company and such persons and/or entities;

 

(b) The CEO will not assume employment with or provide services as a director or otherwise for any Competitor, or engage, whether as principal, partner, licensor or otherwise, in any Competitor; and

 

(c) The CEO will not seek, directly or indirectly, by the offer of alternative employment or other inducement whatsoever, to solicit the services of any employee of the Company employed as at or after the date of such termination, or in the year preceding such termination.

 

The provisions contained in Section 10 are considered reasonable by the CEO and the Company. In the event that any such provisions should be found to be void under applicable laws but would be valid if some part thereof was deleted or the period or area of application reduced, such provisions shall apply with such modification as may be necessary to make them valid and effective.

 

Ther Section 10 shall survive the termination of this Agreement for any reason. In the event the CEO breaches this Section 10, the CEO acknowledges that there will be no adequate remedy at law, and the Company shall be entitled to injunctive relief and/or a decree for specific performance, and such other relief as may be proper (including monetary damages if appropriate). In any event, the Company shall have right to seek all remedies permissible under applicable law.

 

11. WITHHOLDING TAXES

 

Notwithstanding anything else herein to the contrary, the Company may withhold (or cause there to be withheld, as the case may be) from any amounts otherwise due or payable under or pursuant to this Agreement such national, provincial, local or any other income, employment, or other taxes as may be required to be withheld pursuant to any applicable law or regulation.

 

12. ASSIGNMENT

 

This Agreement is personal in its nature and neither of the parties hereto shall, without the consent of the other, assign or transfer this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder; provided, however, that (i) the Company may assign or transfer this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder to any member of the Group without such consent, and (ii) in the event of a Change of Control Transaction, this Agreement shall, subject to the provisions hereof, be binding upon and inure to the benefit of such successor and such successor shall discharge and perform all the promises, covenants, duties, and obligations of the Company hereunder.

 

13. SEVERABILITY

 

If any provision of this Agreement or the application thereof is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this Agreement which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications and to this end the provisions of this Agreement are declared to be severable.

 

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14. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

 

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between the CEO and the Company regarding the terms of the Employment and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous oral or written agreements concerning such subject matter, including any prior agreements between the CEO and a member of the Group. The CEO acknowledges that she has not entered into this Agreement in reliance upon any representation, warranty or undertaking which is not set forth in this Agreement. Any amendment to this Agreement must be in writing and signed by the CEO and the Company.

 

15. GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION

 

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Cayman Islands and each of the parties irrevocably consents to the jurisdiction and venue of the courts located in Cayman Islands.

 

16. AMENDMENT

 

Ther Agreement may not be amended, modified or changed (in whole or in part), except by a formal, definitive written agreement expressly referring to this Agreement, which agreement is executed by both of the parties hereto.

 

17. WAIVER

 

Neither the failure nor any delay on the part of a party to exercise any right, remedy, power or privilege under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege preclude any other or further exercise of the same or of any right, remedy, power or privilege, nor shall any waiver of any right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any occurrence be construed as a waiver of such right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any other occurrence. No waiver shall be effective unless it is in writing and is signed by the party asserted to have granted such waiver.

 

18. NOTICES

 

All notices, requests, demands and other communications required or permitted under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given and made if (i) delivered by hand, (ii) otherwise delivered against receipt therefor, or (iii) sent by a recognized courier with next-day or second-day delivery to the last known address of the other party.

 

19. COUNTERPARTS

 

This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original as against any party whose signature appears thereon, and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. This Agreement shall become binding when one or more counterparts hereof, individually or taken together, shall bear the signatures of all of the parties reflected hereon as the signatories.

 

Photographic copies of such signed counterparts may be used in lieu of the originals for any purpose.

 

20. NO INTERPRETATION AGAINST DRAFTER

 

Each party recognizes that this Agreement is a legally binding contract and acknowledges that it, he or she has had the opportunity to consult with legal counsel of choice. In any construction of the terms of this Agreement, the same shall not be construed against either party on the basis of that party being the drafter of such terms.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been executed as of the date first written above.

 

  Hitek Global, Inc.
     
  By: /s/ Shenping Yin
  Name: Shenping Yin     
  Title: Chairman    
     

 

  CEO
     
  Signature:  /s/ Xiaoyang Huang
  Name: Xiaoyang Huang

 

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Exhibit 10.2

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

This EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (the “ Agreement” ), is entered into as of July 1, 2018 (the “ Effective Date ”), by and between Hitek Global, Inc., incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “ Company ”), and Bo Shi, an individual (the “ Chief Technology Officer (CTO) ”). Except with respect to the direct employment of the CTO by the Company, the term “Company” as used herein with respect to all obligations of the CTO hereunder shall be deemed to include the Company and all of its subsidiaries and affiliated entities (collectively, the “ Group ”).

 

RECITALS

 

A. The Company desires to employ Bo Shi as its CTO and to assure itself of the services of the CTO during the term of Employment (as defined below).

 

B. Bo Shi desires to be employed by the Company as its CTO during the term of Employment and upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

 

AGREEMENT

 

The parties hereto agree as follows:

 

1. POSITION

 

Bo Shi hereby accepts a position of CTO (the “ Employment ”) of the Company.

 

2. TERM

 

  Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the initial term of the Employment shall be one year commencing on the Effective Date, unless terminated earlier pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. The Employment will be renewed automatically for an additional one-year term if neither the Company nor the CTO provides a notice of termination of the Employment to the other party or otherwise proposes to re-negotiate the terms of the Employment with the other party within three months prior to the expiration of the applicable term.

 

3.  DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 

  (a) The CTO’s duties at the Company will include all jobs assigned by the Company’s Board of the Directors (the “ Board ”).

 

  (b) The CTO shall devote all of his working time, attention and skills to the performance of his duties at the Company and shall faithfully and diligently serve the Company in accordance with this Agreement, the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Company, as amended and restated from time to time (the “ Charter Documents ”), and the guidelines, policies and procedures of the Company approved from time to time by the Board.

 

  (c) The CTO shall use his best efforts to perform his duties hereunder. The CTO shall not, without the prior written consent of the Board, become an employee of any entity other than the Company and any subsidiary or affiliate of the Company, and shall not be concerned or interested in any business or entity that engages in the same business in which the Company engages (any such business or entity, a “ Competitor ”), provided that nothing in this clause shall preclude the CTO from holding any shares or other securities of any Competitor that is listed on any securities exchange or recognized securities market anywhere if such shares or securities represent less than 5% of the competitors outstanding shares and securities. The CTO shall notify the Company in writing of his interest in such shares or securities in a timely manner and with such details and particulars as the Company may reasonably require.

 

 

 

 

4. NO BREACH OF CONTRACT

 

The CTO hereby represents to the Company that: (i) the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the CTO and the performance by the CTO of the CTO’s duties hereunder shall not constitute a breach of, or otherwise contravene, the terms of any other agreement or policy to which the CTO is a party or otherwise bound, except for agreements entered into by and between the CTO and any member of the Group pursuant to applicable law, if any; (ii) that the CTO has no information (including, without limitation, confidential information and trade secrets) relating to any other person or entity which would prevent, or be violated by, the CTO entering into this Agreement or carrying out his duties hereunder; (iii) that the CTO is not bound by any confidentiality, trade secret or similar agreement (other than this) with any other person or entity except for other member(s) of the Group, as the case may be.

 

5.  Intentionally Omitted

  

6.   COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

 

  (a) Base Salary.  The CTO’s initial base salary shall be $50,000 and such compensation is subject to annual review and adjustment by the Board.

 

  (b) Bonus . The CTO shall be eligible for Bonuses determined by the Board.

 

  (c) Equity Incentives . To the extent the Company adopts and maintains a share incentive plan, the CTO will be eligible to participate in such plan pursuant to the terms thereof as determined by the Board.

 

  (d) Benefits . The CTO is eligible for participation in any standard employee benefit plan of the Company that currently exists or may be adopted by the Company in the future, including, but not limited to, any retirement plan, life insurance plan, health insurance plan and travel/holiday plan.

 

  (e) Expenses . The CTO shall be entitled to reimbursement by the Company for all reasonable ordinary and necessary travel and other expenses incurred by the CTO in the performance of his duties under this Agreement; provided that he properly accounts for such expenses in accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures.

 

7. TERMINATION OF THE AGREEMENT

 

  (a) By the Company.

 

(i)  For Cause . The Company may terminate the Employment for cause, at any time, without notice or remuneration (unless notice or remuneration is specifically required by applicable law, in which case notice or remuneration will be provided in accordance with applicable law), if:

 

(1) the CTO is convicted or pleads guilty to a felony or to an act of fraud, misappropriation or embezzlement,

 

(2) the CTO has been grossly negligent or acted dishonestly to the detriment of the Company,

 

(3) the CTO has engaged in actions amounting to willful misconduct or failed to perform his duties hereunder and such failure continues after the CTO is afforded a reasonable opportunity to cure such failure; or

 

(4) the CTO violates Section 8 or 10 of this Agreement.

 

Upon termination for cause, the CTO shall be entitled to the amount of base salary earned and not paid prior to termination. However, the CTO will not be entitled to receive payment of any severance benefits or other amounts by reason of the termination, and the CTO’s right to all other benefits will terminate, except as required by any applicable law.

 

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(ii)  For death and disability . The Company may also terminate the Employment, at any time, without notice or remuneration (unless notice or remuneration is specifically required by applicable law, in which case notice or remuneration will be provided in accordance with applicable law), if:

 

(1) the CTO has died, or

 

(2) the CTO has a disability which shall mean a physical or mental impairment which, as reasonably determined by the Board, renders the CTO unable to perform the essential functions of his employment with the Company, with or without reasonable accommodation, for more than 120 days in any 12-month period, unless a longer period is required by applicable law, in which case that longer period would apply.

 

Upon termination for death or disability, the CTO shall be entitled to the amount of base salary earned and not paid prior to termination. However, the CTO will not be entitled to receive payment of any severance benefits or other amounts by reason of the termination, and the CTO’s right to all other benefits will terminate, except as required by any applicable law.

 

(iii)  Without Cause . The Company may terminate the Employment without cause, at any time, upon one-month prior written notice. Upon termination without cause, the Company shall provide the following severance payments and benefits to the CTO: (1) a lump sum cash payment equal to 12 months of the CTO’s base salary as of the date of such termination; (2) a lump sum cash payment equal to a pro-rated amount of his target annual bonus for the year immediately preceding the termination, if any; (3) payment of premiums for continued health benefits under the Company’s health plans for 12 months fo1lowing the termination, if any; and (4) immediate vesting of 100% of the then-unvested portion of any outstanding equity awards held by the CTO.

 

Upon termination without, the CTO shall be entitled to the amount of base salary earned and not paid prior to termination.

 

(iv)  Change of Control Transaction . If the Company or its successor terminates the Employment upon a merger, consolidation, or transfer or sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company with or to any other individual(s) or entity (the “ Change of Control Transaction ”), the CTO shall be entitled to the following severance payments and benefits upon such termination: (1) a lump sum cash payment equal to 12  months of the CTO’s base salary at a rate equal to the greater of her/her annual salary in effect immediate1y prior to the termination, or her/her then current annua1 salary as of the date of such termination; (2) a lump sum cash payment equal to a pro-rated amount of her/her target annual bonus for the year immediately preceding the termination; (3) payment of premiums for continued health benefits under the Company’s health plans for 12 months fo1lowing the termination; and (4) immediate vesting of 100% of the then-unvested portion of any outstanding equity awards held by the CTO.

 

  (b) By the CTO . The CTO may terminate the Employment at any time with a one-month prior written notice to the Company, if (1) there is a material reduction in the CTO’s authority, duties and responsibilities, or (2) there is a material reduction in the CTO’s annual salary. Upon the CTO’s termination of the Employment due to either of the above reasons, the Company shall provide compensation to the CTO equivalent to 12 months of the CTO’s base salary that he is entitled to immediately prior to such termination. In addition, the CTO may resign prior to the expiration of the Agreement if such resignation is approved by the Board or an alternative arrangement with respect to the Employment is agreed to by the Board.

 

  (c) Notice of Termination.  Any termination of the CTO’s employment under this Agreement shall be communicated by written notice of termination from the terminating party to the other party. The notice of termination shall indicate the specific provision(s) of this Agreement relied upon in effecting the termination.

 

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8.  CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-DISCLOSURE

 

  (a) Confidentiality and Non-disclosure . The CTO hereby agrees at all times during the term of the Employment and after his termination, to hold in the strictest confidence, and not to use, except for the benefit of the Company, or to disclose to any person, corporation or other entity without prior written consent of the Company, any Confidential Information. The CTO understands that “ Confidential Information ” means any proprietary or confidential information of the Company, its affiliates, or their respective clients, customers or partners, including, without limitation, technical data, trade secrets, research and development information, product plans, services, customer lists and customers, supplier lists and suppliers, software developments, inventions, processes, formulas, technology, designs, hardware configuration information, personnel information, marketing, finances, information about the suppliers, joint ventures, francherees, distributors and other persons with whom the Company does business, information regarding the skills and compensation of other employees of the Company or other business information disclosed to the CTO by or obtained by the CTO from the Company, its affiliates, or their respective clients, customers or partners, either directly or indirectly, in writing, orally or otherwise, if specifically indicated to be confidential or reasonably expected to be confidential. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential Information shall not include information that is generally available and known to the public through no fault of the CTO.

 

  (b) Company Property . The CTO understands that all documents (including computer records, facsimile and e-mail) and materials created, received or transmitted in connection with his work or using the facilities of the Company are property of the Company and subject to inspection by the Company at any time. Upon termination of the CTO’s employment with the Company (or at any other time when requested by the Company), the CTO will promptly deliver to the Company all documents and materials of any nature pertaining to his work with the Company and will provide written certification of his compliance with this Agreement. Under no circumstances will the CTO have, following his   termination, in his possession any property of the Company, or any documents or materials or copies thereof containing any Confidential Information.

 

  (c) Former Employer Information . The CTO agrees that he has not and will not, during the term of his employment, (i) improperly use or disclose any proprietary information or trade secrets of any former employer or other person or entity with which the CTO has an agreement or duty to keep in confidence information acquired by CTO, if any, or (ii) bring into the premises of the Company any document or confidential or proprietary information belonging to such former employer, person or entity unless consented to in writing by such former employer, person or entity. The CTO will indemnify the Company and hold it harmless from and against all claims, liabilities, damages and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of suit, arising out of or in connection with any violation of the foregoing.

 

  (d) Third Party Information . The CTO recognizes that the Company may have received, and in the future may receive, from third parties their confidential or proprietary information subject to a duty on the Company’s part to maintain the confidentiality of such information and to use it only for certain limited purposes. The CTO agrees that the CTO owes the Company and such third parties, during the CTO’s employment by the Company and thereafter, a duty to hold all such confidential or proprietary information in the strictest confidence and not to disclose it to any person or firm and to use it in a manner consistent with, and for the limited purposes permitted by, the Company’s agreement with such third party.

 

This Section 8 shall survive the termination of this Agreement for any reason. In the event the CTO breaches this Section 8, the Company shall have right to seek remedies permissible under applicable law.

   

9.  CONFLICTING EMPLOYMENT.

 

The CTO hereby agrees that, during the term of his employment with the Company, he will not engage in any other employment, occupation, consulting or other business activity related to the business in which the Company is now involved or becomes involved during the term of the CTO’s employment, nor will the CTO engage in any other activities that conflict with his obligations to the Company without the prior written consent of the Company.

 

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10. NON-COMPETITION AND NON-SOLICITATION

 

In consideration of the salary paid to the CTO by the Company and subject to applicable law, the CTO agrees that during the term of the Employment and for a period of one (1) year following the termination of the Employment for whatever reason:

 

  (a) The CTO will not approach clients, customers or contacts of the Company or other persons or entities introduced to the CTO in the CTO’s capacity as a representative of the Company for the purposes of doing business with such persons or entities which will harm the business relationship between the Company and such persons and/or entities;

 

  (b) The CTO will not assume employment with or provide services as a director or otherwise for any Competitor, or engage, whether as principal, partner, licensor or otherwise, in any Competitor; and

 

  (c) The CTO will not seek, directly or indirectly, by the offer of alternative employment or other inducement whatsoever, to solicit the services of any employee of the Company employed as at or after the date of such termination, or in the year preceding such termination.

 

The provisions contained in Section 10 are considered reasonable by the CTO and the Company. In the event that any such provisions should be found to be void under applicable laws but would be valid if some part thereof was deleted or the period or area of application reduced, such provisions shall apply with such modification as may be necessary to make them valid and effective.

 

This Section 10 shall survive the termination of this Agreement for any reason. In the event the CTO breaches this Section 10, the CTO acknowledges that there will be no adequate remedy at law, and the Company shall be entitled to injunctive relief and/or a decree for specific performance, and such other relief as may be proper (including monetary damages if appropriate). In any event, the Company shall have right to seek all remedies permissible under applicable law.

 

11. WITHHOLDING TAXES

 

Notwithstanding anything else herein to the contrary, the Company may withhold (or cause there to be withheld, as the case may be) from any amounts otherwise due or payable under or pursuant to this Agreement such national, provincial, local or any other income, employment, or other taxes as may be required to be withheld pursuant to any applicable law or regulation.

 

12. ASSIGNMENT

 

This Agreement is personal in its nature and neither of the parties hereto shall, without the consent of the other, assign or transfer this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder; provided, however, that (i) the Company may assign or transfer this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder to any member of the Group without such consent, and (ii) in the event of a Change of Control Transaction, this Agreement shall, subject to the provisions hereof, be binding upon and inure to the benefit of such successor and such successor shall discharge and perform all the promises, covenants, duties, and obligations of the Company hereunder.

 

13. SEVERABILITY

 

If any provision of this Agreement or the application thereof is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this Agreement which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications and to this end the provisions of this Agreement are declared to be severable.

 

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14. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

 

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between the CTO and the Company regarding the terms of the Employment and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous oral or written agreements concerning such subject matter, including any prior agreements between the CTO and a member of the Group. The CTO acknowledges that he has not entered into this Agreement in reliance upon any representation, warranty or undertaking which is not set forth in this Agreement. Any amendment to this Agreement must be in writing and signed by the CTO and the Company.

 

15. GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION

 

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Cayman Islands and each of the parties irrevocably consents to the jurisdiction and venue of the courts located in Cayman Islands.

 

16. AMENDMENT

 

This Agreement may not be amended, modified or changed (in whole or in part), except by a formal, definitive written agreement expressly referring to this Agreement, which agreement is executed by both of the parties hereto.

 

17. WAIVER

 

Neither the failure nor any delay on the part of a party to exercise any right, remedy, power or privilege under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege preclude any other or further exercise of the same or of any right, remedy, power or privilege, nor shall any waiver of any right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any occurrence be construed as a waiver of such right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any other occurrence. No waiver shall be effective unless it is in writing and is signed by the party asserted to have granted such waiver.

 

18. NOTICES

 

All notices, requests, demands and other communications required or permitted under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given and made if (i) delivered by hand, (ii) otherwise delivered against receipt therefor, or (iii) sent by a recognized courier with next-day or second-day delivery to the last known address of the other party.

 

19. COUNTERPARTS

 

This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original as against any party whose signature appears thereon, and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. This Agreement shall become binding when one or more counterparts hereof, individually or taken together, shall bear the signatures of all of the parties reflected hereon as the signatories.

 

Photographic copies of such signed counterparts may be used in lieu of the originals for any purpose.

 

20. NO INTERPRETATION AGAINST DRAFTER

 

Each party recognizes that this Agreement is a legally binding contract and acknowledges that it, he or he has had the opportunity to consult with legal counsel of choice. In any construction of the terms of this Agreement, the same shall not be construed against either party on the basis of that party being the drafter of such terms.

  

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been executed as of the date first written above.

 

  Hitek Global, Inc.
     
  By: /s/ Shenping Yin
  Name: Shenping Yin     
  Title: Chairman    

 

  CTO
     
  Signature: /s/ Bo Shi
  Name: Bo Shi

 

 

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Exhibit 10.3

 

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

 

This EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (the “ Agreement” ), is entered into as of September 2, 2018 (the “ Effective Date ”), by and between Hitek Global, Inc., incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands (the “ Company ”), and Tianyu Xia, an individual (the “ Chief Financial Officer (CFO) ”). Except with respect to the direct employment of the CFO by the Company, the term “Company” as used herein with respect to all obligations of the CFO hereunder shall be deemed to include the Company and all of its subsidiaries and affiliated entities (collectively, the “ Group ”).

 

RECITALS

 

A. The Company desires to employ Tianyu Xia as its CFO and to assure itself of the services of the CFO during the term of Employment (as defined below).

 

B. Tianyu Xia desires to be employed by the Company as its CFO during the term of Employment and upon the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

 

AGREEMENT

 

The parties hereto agree as follows:

 

1. POSITION

 

Tianyu Xia hereby accepts a position of CFO (the “ Employment ”) of the Company.

 

2. TERM

 

  Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the initial term of the Employment shall be three years commencing on the Effective Date, unless terminated earlier pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. The Employment will be renewed automatically for additional one-year terms if neither the Company nor the CFO provides a notice of termination of the Employment to the other party or otherwise proposes to re-negotiate the terms of the Employment with the other party within three months prior to the expiration of the applicable term.

 

3. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

 

  (a) The CFO’s duties at the Company will include all jobs assigned by the Company’s Board of the Directors (the “ Board ”).

 

  (b) The CFO shall devote all of her working time, attention and skills to the performance of her duties at the Company and shall faithfully and diligently serve the Company in accordance with this Agreement, the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws of the Company, as amended and restated from time to time (the “ Charter Documents ”), and the guidelines, policies and procedures of the Company approved from time to time by the Board.

 

  (c) The CFO shall use her best efforts to perform her duties hereunder. The CFO shall not, without the prior written consent of the Board, become an employee of any entity other than the Company and any subsidiary or affiliate of the Company, and shall not be concerned or interested in any business or entity that engages in the same business in which the Company engages (any such business or entity, a “ Competitor ”), provided that nothing in this clause shall preclude the CFO from holding any shares or other securities of any Competitor that is listed on any securities exchange or recognized securities market anywhere if such shares or securities represent less than 5% of the competitors outstanding shares and securities. The CFO shall notify the Company in writing of her interest in such shares or securities in a timely manner and with such details and particulars as the Company may reasonably require.

 

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4. NO BREACH OF CONTRACT

 

The CFO hereby represents to the Company that: (i) the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the CFO and the performance by the CFO of the CFO’s duties hereunder shall not constitute a breach of, or otherwise contravene, the terms of any other agreement or policy to which the CFO is a party or otherwise bound, except for agreements entered into by and between the CFO and any member of the Group pursuant to applicable law, if any; (ii) that the CFO has no information (including, without limitation, confidential information and trade secrets) relating to any other person or entity which would prevent, or be violated by, the CFO entering into this Agreement or carrying out her duties hereunder; (iii) that the CFO is not bound by any confidentiality, trade secret or similar agreement (other than this) with any other person or entity except for other member(s) of the Group, as the case may be.

 

5. Intentionally Omitted

  

6. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

 

  (a) Base Salary.  The CFO’s initial base salary shall be $60,000 and such compensation is subject to annual review and adjustment by the Board.

 

  (b) Bonus . The CFO shall be eligible for Bonuses determined by the Board.

 

  (c) Equity Incentives . To the extent the Company adopts and maintains a share incentive plan, the CFO will be eligible to participate in such plan pursuant to the terms thereof as determined by the Board.

 

  (d) Benefits . The CFO is eligible for participation in any standard employee benefit plan of the Company that currently exists or may be adopted by the Company in the future, including, but not limited to, any retirement plan, life insurance plan, health insurance plan and travel/holiday plan.

 

  (e) Expenses . The CFO shall be entitled to reimbursement by the Company for all reasonable ordinary and necessary travel and other expenses incurred by the CFO in the performance of her duties under this Agreement; provided that she properly accounts for such expenses in accordance with the Company’s policies and procedures.

 

7. TERMINATION OF THE AGREEMENT

 

  (a) By the Company.

 

(i) For Cause . The Company may terminate the Employment for cause, at any time, without notice or remuneration (unless notice or remuneration is specifically required by applicable law, in which case notice or remuneration will be provided in accordance with applicable law), if:

 

(1) the CFO is convicted or pleads guilty to a felony or to an act of fraud, misappropriation or embezzlement,

 

(2) the CFO has been grossly negligent or acted dishonestly to the detriment of the Company,

 

(3) the CFO has engaged in actions amounting to willful misconduct or failed to perform her duties hereunder and such failure continues after the CFO is afforded a reasonable opportunity to cure such failure; or

 

(4) the CFO violates Section 8 or 10 of this Agreement.

 

Upon termination for cause, the CFO shall be entitled to the amount of base salary earned and not paid prior to termination. However, the CFO will not be entitled to receive payment of any severance benefits or other amounts by reason of the termination, and the CFO’s right to all other benefits will terminate, except as required by any applicable law.

 

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(ii)  For death and disability . The Company may also terminate the Employment, at any time, without notice or remuneration (unless notice or remuneration is specifically required by applicable law, in which case notice or remuneration will be provided in accordance with applicable law), if:

 

(1) the CFO has died, or

 

(2) the CFO has a disability which shall mean a physical or mental impairment which, as reasonably determined by the Board, renders the CFO unable to perform the essential functions of her employment with the Company, with or without reasonable accommodation, for more than 120 days in any 12-month period, unless a longer period is required by applicable law, in which case that longer period would apply.

 

Upon termination for death or disability, the CFO shall be entitled to the amount of base salary earned and not paid prior to termination. However, the CFO will not be entitled to receive payment of any severance benefits or other amounts by reason of the termination, and the CFO’s right to all other benefits will terminate, except as required by any applicable law.

 

(iii)  Without Cause . The Company may terminate the Employment without cause, at any time, upon one-month prior written notice. Upon termination without cause, the Company shall provide the following severance payments and benefits to the CFO: (1) a lump sum cash payment equal to 12 months of the CFO’s base salary as of the date of such termination; (2) a lump sum cash payment equal to a pro-rated amount of her target annual bonus for the year immediately preceding the termination, if any; (3) payment of premiums for continued health benefits under the Company’s health plans for 12 months fo1lowing the termination, if any; and (4) immediate vesting of 100% of the then-unvested portion of any outstanding equity awards held by the CFO.

 

Upon termination without, the CFO shall be entitled to the amount of base salary earned and not paid prior to termination.

 

(iv)  Change of Control Transaction . If the Company or its successor terminates the Employment upon a merger, consolidation, or transfer or sale of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company with or to any other individual(s) or entity (the “ Change of Control Transaction ”), the CFO shall be entitled to the following severance payments and benefits upon such termination: (1) a lump sum cash payment equal to 12  months of the CFO’s base salary at a rate equal to the greater of her/her annual salary in effect immediate1y prior to the termination, or her/her then current annua1 salary as of the date of such termination; (2) a lump sum cash payment equal to a pro-rated amount of her/her target annual bonus for the year immediately preceding the termination; (3) payment of premiums for continued health benefits under the Company’s health plans for 12 months fo1lowing the termination; and (4) immediate vesting of 100% of the then-unvested portion of any outstanding equity awards held by the CFO.

 

  (b) By the CFO . The CFO may terminate the Employment at any time with a one-month prior written notice to the Company, if (1) there is a material reduction in the CFO’s authority, duties and responsibilities, or (2) there is a material reduction in the CFO’s annual salary. Upon the CFO’s termination of the Employment due to either of the above reasons, the Company shall provide compensation to the CFO equivalent to 12 months of the CFO’s base salary that she is entitled to immediately prior to such termination. In addition, the CFO may resign prior to the expiration of the Agreement if such resignation is approved by the Board or an alternative arrangement with respect to the Employment is agreed to by the Board.

 

  (c) Notice of Termination.  Any termination of the CFO’s employment under this Agreement shall be communicated by written notice of termination from the terminating party to the other party. The notice of termination shall indicate the specific provision(s) of this Agreement relied upon in effecting the termination.

 

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8. CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-DISCLOSURE

 

  (a) Confidentiality and Non-disclosure . The CFO hereby agrees at all times during the term of the Employment and after her termination, to hold in the strictest confidence, and not to use, except for the benefit of the Company, or to disclose to any person, corporation or other entity without prior written consent of the Company, any Confidential Information. The CFO understands that “ Confidential Information ” means any proprietary or confidential information of the Company, its affiliates, or their respective clients, customers or partners, including, without limitation, technical data, trade secrets, research and development information, product plans, services, customer lists and customers, supplier lists and suppliers, software developments, inventions, processes, formulas, technology, designs, hardware configuration information, personnel information, marketing, finances, information about the suppliers, joint ventures, francherees, distributors and other persons with whom the Company does business, information regarding the skills and compensation of other employees of the Company or other business information disclosed to the CFO by or obtained by the CFO from the Company, its affiliates, or their respective clients, customers or partners, either directly or indirectly, in writing, orally or otherwise, if specifically indicated to be confidential or reasonably expected to be confidential. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Confidential Information shall not include information that is generally available and known to the public through no fault of the CFO.

 

  (b) Company Property . The CFO understands that all documents (including computer records, facsimile and e-mail) and materials created, received or transmitted in connection with her work or using the facilities of the Company are property of the Company and subject to inspection by the Company at any time. Upon termination of the CFO’s employment with the Company (or at any other time when requested by the Company), the CFO will promptly deliver to the Company all documents and materials of any nature pertaining to her work with the Company and will provide written certification of her compliance with this Agreement. Under no circumstances will the CFO have, following her   termination, in her possession any property of the Company, or any documents or materials or copies thereof containing any Confidential Information.

 

  (c) Former Employer Information . The CFO agrees that she has not and will not, during the term of her employment, (i) improperly use or disclose any proprietary information or trade secrets of any former employer or other person or entity with which the CFO has an agreement or duty to keep in confidence information acquired by CFO, if any, or (ii) bring into the premises of the Company any document or confidential or proprietary information belonging to such former employer, person or entity unless consented to in writing by such former employer, person or entity. The CFO will indemnify the Company and hold it harmless from and against all claims, liabilities, damages and expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and costs of suit, arising out of or in connection with any violation of the foregoing.

 

  (d) Third Party Information . The CFO recognizes that the Company may have received, and in the future may receive, from third parties their confidential or proprietary information subject to a duty on the Company’s part to maintain the confidentiality of such information and to use it only for certain limited purposes. The CFO agrees that the CFO owes the Company and such third parties, during the CFO’s employment by the Company and thereafter, a duty to hold all such confidential or proprietary information in the strictest confidence and not to disclose it to any person or firm and to use it in a manner consistent with, and for the limited purposes permitted by, the Company’s agreement with such third party.

 

This Section 8 shall survive the termination of this Agreement for any reason. In the event the CFO breaches this Section 8, the Company shall have right to seek remedies permissible under applicable law.

 

9. CONFLICTING EMPLOYMENT.

 

The CFO hereby agrees that, during the term of her employment with the Company, she will not engage in any other employment, occupation, consulting or other business activity related to the business in which the Company is now involved or becomes involved during the term of the CFO’s employment, nor will the CFO engage in any other activities that conflict with her obligations to the Company without the prior written consent of the Company.

 

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10. NON-COMPETITION AND NON-SOLICITATION

 

In consideration of the salary paid to the CFO by the Company and subject to applicable law, the CFO agrees that during the term of the Employment and for a period of one (1) year following the termination of the Employment for whatever reason:

 

  (a) The CFO will not approach clients, customers or contacts of the Company or other persons or entities introduced to the CFO in the CFO’s capacity as a representative of the Company for the purposes of doing business with such persons or entities which will harm the business relationship between the Company and such persons and/or entities;

 

  (b) The CFO will not assume employment with or provide services as a director or otherwise for any Competitor, or engage, whether as principal, partner, licensor or otherwise, in any Competitor; and

 

  (c) The CFO will not seek, directly or indirectly, by the offer of alternative employment or other inducement whatsoever, to solicit the services of any employee of the Company employed as at or after the date of such termination, or in the year preceding such termination.

 

The provisions contained in Section 10 are considered reasonable by the CFO and the Company. In the event that any such provisions should be found to be void under applicable laws but would be valid if some part thereof was deleted or the period or area of application reduced, such provisions shall apply with such modification as may be necessary to make them valid and effective.

 

Ther Section 10 shall survive the termination of this Agreement for any reason. In the event the CFO breaches this Section 10, the CFO acknowledges that there will be no adequate remedy at law, and the Company shall be entitled to injunctive relief and/or a decree for specific performance, and such other relief as may be proper (including monetary damages if appropriate). In any event, the Company shall have right to seek all remedies permissible under applicable law.

 

11. WITHHOLDING TAXES

 

Notwithstanding anything else herein to the contrary, the Company may withhold (or cause there to be withheld, as the case may be) from any amounts otherwise due or payable under or pursuant to this Agreement such national, provincial, local or any other income, employment, or other taxes as may be required to be withheld pursuant to any applicable law or regulation.

 

12. ASSIGNMENT

 

This Agreement is personal in its nature and neither of the parties hereto shall, without the consent of the other, assign or transfer this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder; provided, however, that (i) the Company may assign or transfer this Agreement or any rights or obligations hereunder to any member of the Group without such consent, and (ii) in the event of a Change of Control Transaction, this Agreement shall, subject to the provisions hereof, be binding upon and inure to the benefit of such successor and such successor shall discharge and perform all the promises, covenants, duties, and obligations of the Company hereunder.

 

13. SEVERABILITY

 

If any provision of this Agreement or the application thereof is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of this Agreement which can be given effect without the invalid provisions or applications and to this end the provisions of this Agreement are declared to be severable.

 

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14. ENTIRE AGREEMENT

 

This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding between the CFO and the Company regarding the terms of the Employment and supersedes all prior or contemporaneous oral or written agreements concerning such subject matter, including any prior agreements between the CFO and a member of the Group. The CFO acknowledges that she has not entered into this Agreement in reliance upon any representation, warranty or undertaking which is not set forth in this Agreement. Any amendment to this Agreement must be in writing and signed by the CFO and the Company.

 

15. GOVERNING LAW; JURISDICTION

 

This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Cayman Islands and each of the parties irrevocably consents to the jurisdiction and venue of the courts located in Cayman Islands.

 

16. AMENDMENT

 

Ther Agreement may not be amended, modified or changed (in whole or in part), except by a formal, definitive written agreement expressly referring to this Agreement, which agreement is executed by both of the parties hereto.

 

17. WAIVER

 

Neither the failure nor any delay on the part of a party to exercise any right, remedy, power or privilege under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege preclude any other or further exercise of the same or of any right, remedy, power or privilege, nor shall any waiver of any right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any occurrence be construed as a waiver of such right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any other occurrence. No waiver shall be effective unless it is in writing and is signed by the party asserted to have granted such waiver.

 

18. NOTICES

 

All notices, requests, demands and other communications required or permitted under this Agreement shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given and made if (i) delivered by hand, (ii) otherwise delivered against receipt therefor, or (iii) sent by a recognized courier with next-day or second-day delivery to the last known address of the other party.

 

9. COUNTERPARTS

 

This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original as against any party whose signature appears thereon, and all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. This Agreement shall become binding when one or more counterparts hereof, individually or taken together, shall bear the signatures of all of the parties reflected hereon as the signatories.

 

Photographic copies of such signed counterparts may be used in lieu of the originals for any purpose.

 

20. NO INTERPRETATION AGAINST DRAFTER

 

Each party recognizes that this Agreement is a legally binding contract and acknowledges that it, he or she has had the opportunity to consult with legal counsel of choice. In any construction of the terms of this Agreement, the same shall not be construed against either party on the basis of that party being the drafter of such terms.

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been executed as of the date first written above.

 

  Hitek Global, Inc.
     
  By: /s/ Shenping Yin
  Name: Shenping Yin
  Title: Chairman    

 

  CFO
                               
  Signature: /s/ Tianyu Xia
  Name: Tianyu Xia

 

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Exhibit 23.1

 

 

CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

 

We hereby consent to the inclusion in this Registration Statement on Amendment No. 2 to Form F-1 of Hitek Global Inc (the “Company”) of our report dated July 13, 2018, except for Note 2, Note 12, and Note 17, as to which the date is August 31, 2018 with respect to our audit of the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2017 and 2016 and for the years then ended, which appears in the Prospectus as part of this Registration Statement. We also consent to the reference to our Firm under the caption “Experts” in such Prospectus.

  

 

/s/ UHY LLP

New York, New York

 

November 20, 2018