China company verification glossary
Plain-English explanations of Chinese registry fields, public-record terms, and supplier due diligence labels.
Plain-English reference terms
Use these definitions to understand Chinese company registry fields before comparing a supplier record or report.
Unified Social Credit Code (USCC)
The 18-character identity code used for Chinese legal entities and other organizations, explained by source, structure, scope, and common misreadings.
Read articleRegistered Capital in China
A field-level explanation of China's registered capital amount, currency, subscribed nature, contribution timeline, and dated changes.
Read articlePaid-in Capital in China
A source-and-date explanation of paid-in capital, including event disclosure, annual-report cut-offs, independent evidence, and missing-field meanings.
Read articleChinese Company Status Terms
A dated field guide to active-family, closure, liquidation, revoked, registration-revoked, and cancelled company status terms in China.
Read articleOperating Abnormality in China
A field guide to China's enterprise operating-abnormality list: four current listing reasons, address findings, removal records, and buyer evidence.
Read articleDishonest Enforcement Record
A field guide to China's dishonest enforcement list: the six inclusion grounds, public fields, time limits, deletion states, and ordinary-debtor boundary.
Read articleJudgment Debtor in China
A field guide to China's ordinary judgment-enforcement record: case-number anatomy, public fields, enforcement target, case status, and the meaning of zhongben.
Read articleCompany Registration Authority in China
What the registration-authority field means, why Chinese office names and levels differ, when the field can change, and what buyers should not infer from it.
Read articleChinese Business License
A Chinese business license identifies a registered market entity through its legal name, USCC, type, representative, capital, address, scope, date, and authority.
Read articleChinese Company Types
Chinese company and market-entity types distinguish limited companies, share companies, sole proprietorships, partnerships, and branches with different legal structures.
Read articleBranch Office in China
A Chinese branch is a registered operating unit without separate legal-person status; buyers should connect it to its head entity and map every transaction role.
Read articleShareholder in a Chinese Company
A Chinese company shareholder field identifies direct legal ownership at a source and date; it should not be equated automatically with control or beneficial ownership.
Read articleChinese Company Annual Report
A Chinese company annual report is a company-filed disclosure for the prior year, with public and optional fields that should not be mistaken for audited accounts.
Read articleInvoice Issuer in China
Identify the legal entity shown as the invoice seller, then compare it with the contract party and bank beneficiary before approving a China supplier payment.
Read articleBank Beneficiary in Supplier Payments
Understand the beneficiary name, beneficiary bank, BIC, bank country, and intermediary bank fields before matching a supplier payment record.
Read articleBusiness Scope in China
A Chinese company's business scope records its declared activity categories and licensing context, but it does not prove factory ownership, capacity, or product quality.
Read articleLegal Representative in a Chinese Company
The legal representative is the registered director or manager designated to represent a Chinese company, but the field alone does not prove ownership or transaction authority.
Read articleStart checking Chinese companies now
Search first, review matching entities, then open the company profile that matches your supplier record.