Depending upon the amount of registeredcapital invested, the foreign shareholder may make shareholder loans to the WFOE, with payments of interest and repayment of principal not subject to profitability.
Registeredcapital is the default metric for financial risk assessment here (a very poor tool, but it is what it is), and the government typically includes requirements related to industry experience in an attempt to raise the bar slightly for market entry, thereby keeping out the inexperienced tyros that would be likely to fail.