Licensed list · Asia-Pacific · East Asia · CN
Licensed insurance companies in China (2026)
VerifiedVerified against the NFRA register, checked 4 Sept 2026.
The 197 insurance companies licensed in China in 2026, as recorded by the National Financial Regulatory Administration (NFRA), with the class of business and ownership each one is registered under.
Snapshot
By class of business
Each company is counted once, under the class its register row records. The supervisor’s own tally counts licences, so a company licensed for more than one class appears more than once there.
By ownership
“Cross-border groups” counts foreign multinationals and pan-regional groups; “domestically owned” counts domestic private, state-owned, mutual and captive entities. The register records the parent’s type, not its home market. How ownership is recorded
Licensed insurers in China
Showing 25 of 197 entities. The full, filterable table is on the country page; every row is in the JSON below.
Regulatory intelligence: China
Read from the register, not written for this page: the supervisor’s regime, the source the list was checked against, and the market notes recorded alongside it.
- Supervisor
- National Financial Regulatory Administration NFRA
- Regime
- Insurance Law of the PRC; C-ROSS II
- Register source
- NFRA 保险机构法人名单 (list of insurance institution legal persons) as at 31 Dec 2025, published 14 Aug 2026 (239 entities), plus NFRA 外国再保险公司分公司名单 (foreign reinsurer branches) as at 31 Dec 2025 (8 branches); retrieved 22 Sep 2026. In scope: 88 P&C, 75 life, 9 pension, 7 health, 7 reinsurers, 1 policy insurer, 1 rural mutual, 8 reinsurer branches = 196, plus the China Re group holding company matched to an existing row = 197
- Verification
- Verified against the regulator register · NFRA 保险机构法人名单 (list of insurance institution legal persons) as at 31 Dec 2025, published 14 Aug 2026 (239 entities), plus NFRA 外国再保险公司分公司名单 (foreign reinsurer branches) as at 31 Dec 2025 (8 branches); retrieved 22 Sep 2026. In scope: 88 P&C, 75 life, 9 pension, 7 health, 7 reinsurers, 1 policy insurer, 1 rural mutual, 8 reinsurer branches = 196, plus the China Re group holding company matched to an existing row = 197
No market event is recorded against this register for 2026. The regime and source above are the standing facts.
Governing legislation
- NFRA institutional mandate · Institutional and insurance framework
NFRA supervises banking and insurance through institutional, conduct and risk oversight, including on-site examinations and off-site monitoring.
Verification log
Reconciled against NFRA's list of insurance institution legal persons and of foreign reinsurer branches as at 31 Dec 2025: 80 of 81 rows matched (including four rows already named as restructured successors and Sino-Korean Life, renamed Dongfang Jiafu Life in 2025), 117 licensed insurers and reinsurer branches added, and Peak Re removed as Hong Kong-domiciled. Insurance group holding companies (other than China Re Group, already a row) and insurance asset managers are on the list but are not insurers and were not added.
For B2B teams and AI agents
The same rows as static JSON, no key, CORS open, CC BY 4.0. Paged files stay under 96 KB so an agent’s fetch tool never truncates them.
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/china.json
curl -s https://insurers.global/api/v1/countries/china/insurers/pages/1.json- MCP: connect
https://insurers.global/mcpand callget_country_summarywith{ "country": "china" }, orlist_insurerswithcountry,limitandoffsetfor paged rows. - OpenAPI 3.1: /api/v1/openapi.json · WebMCP: /.well-known/webmcp.json · Guide: /ai/ · llms.txt
- Dataset version
2026-09-08+3f3925fad259; every response carriesversion,verifiedandlicence.