Does a subsidiary controlled by a legal person need the consent of the parent company to set up a subsidiary?

Paragraph 2 of Article 14 of the Company Law stipulates that a company may set up subsidiaries, which have the status of enterprise legal person and independently bear civil liabilities according to law. When a company holds shares in another company, the former is the parent company and the latter is the subsidiary company. A subsidiary is a wholly-owned subsidiary when the parent company holds 100% of the shares, a holding subsidiary with more than 50% of the shares, and a relatively holding subsidiary with less than 50% of all shareholders (such as 40: 30: 30). The parent company corresponds to the subsidiary, and the company corresponds to the branch. The first paragraph of Article 14 of China's Company Law stipulates that a company may set up a branch, which does not have the qualification of an enterprise legal person and its civil liability shall be borne by the company. The important difference between our company and its branches is that the former has legal personality, while the latter is only a branch of our company and does not have independent legal personality. Therefore, in a strict sense, a branch is not a company in company law. A subsidiary has the qualification of an independent legal person and bears independent responsibilities, while a branch is only a branch of an enterprise legal person and has no independent responsibilities, and its responsibilities are left to the company that set up the branch.