Legal analysis: Laid-off workers and unemployed people who apply for business licenses of individual industrial and commercial households (including individual traders) need to go through the relevant procedures according to the following steps: First, they should go to the industrial and commercial office where they operate with professional identity certificates and identity cards to pre-approve their names; Two, obtain the application for industrial and commercial registration of individual industrial and commercial households, and prepare relevant registration materials; Third, apply for registration; Fourth, get a business license. Where there are other provisions in the law, those provisions shall prevail.

Legal basis: Article 78 of the Civil Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates the business license of a legally established for-profit legal person. The date of issuance of the business license is the date of establishment of the profit-making legal person.