I don’t recommend you to host your website in China, because Internet market environment in China is more complicated than that of the other countries. For example, if you want to host your website in US companies such as Hostgator, Godaddy and etc, you’ll just need to fill one to two forms to finish the order. It will cost you no more than 2 days to move your site to any server in USA or Europen coutries. However, if you want to host your site in China, it will cost you more time. Let me list the procedures for you:

1. Locate the hosting companies:

There are hundreds of hosting companies in China, top players are mainly located in the mega-cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and etc.

2. Apply an ICP license from Ministry of Industry and Information:

It’s a complicated process. You can outsource these jobs to your hosting company. You will need to submit such information as your personal ID card, passport number, two recent, two inches, bareheaded & full-faced photos and a copy of business license issued by the local government. It may take you 15-30 days to successfully apply an ICP license.

3. Publish your website:

after successfully apply an ICP license, you can notify the hosting company to publish your website online now.

Please note, these procedures only apply for non-game, non-forum website. Game websites and forum websites will need addtional procedures.
As you can see, without a legal business in China, it’s hard for you to successfully host the website in Mainland China. Unless you have partnership with local Chinese people, i would suggest you host your website to the neighbouring coutries and regions such as South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and etc.