How-to guides for China company checks
Step-by-step articles for confirming legal identity, reading registration fields, and deciding when a supplier needs deeper review.
Practical how-to articles
Read the matching workflow first, then continue into a company check when you are ready to verify a supplier record.
Check a Chinese Supplier's Brand Authorization
Trace the trademark owner, licensees, manufacturer, seller, and exporter before relying on a supplier's authorization letter for branded goods.
Read articleCheck a Chinese Supplier's Product Recalls
Search Chinese and destination-market recall databases, match notices to the exact product, and determine whether the record connects to your current supplier.
Read articleCheck a Chinese Supplier's Product Test Report
Verify a supplier test report through its issuer, laboratory scope, tested sample, methods, results, and match to the product configuration being ordered.
Read articleCheck a Chinese Supplier's ISO 9001 Certificate
Match a Chinese supplier's ISO 9001 certificate to its legal entity, covered site, scope, current status, issuer, and accreditation before relying on it.
Read articleCheck a Chinese Company Chop
Review a Chinese company chop through entity identity, signatory authority, document integrity, and electronic-signature evidence before relying on a contract.
Read articleVerify a Chinese Company Before Payment
Use three payment gates to confirm the Chinese legal entity, current registration status, and bank beneficiary relationship before releasing supplier funds.
Read articleRead a Chinese Business License
Identify the license file type, transcribe each Chinese registration field, and compare the document with a current company record without overstating what it proves.
Read articleValidate a Chinese USCC
Validate a Chinese Unified Social Credit Code by checking its allowed characters, five-part structure, MOD 31-3 checksum, and matched company record.
Read articleVerify an Alibaba Supplier
Verify the company behind an Alibaba storefront by separating profile badges, third-party assessment reports, Chinese registry identity, and Trade Assurance order terms.
Read articleFactory or Trading Company?
Determine whether a Chinese supplier is a direct manufacturer, export affiliate, or trading company by mapping legal identity, site, people, export, invoice, and payment evidence.
Read articleCheck Chinese Court and Enforcement Records
Use the correct Chinese court databases, match records to the legal entity, and preserve case numbers, courts, dates, filters, and database limitations.
Read articleReview a Chinese Company's Business Scope
Read a Chinese company's current business scope line by line, preserve the original terms, check change dates and permits, and compare the registered activities with the proposed transaction.
Read articleVerify a Supplier Before Contracting
Verify the Chinese contract party, signing authority, operating roles, product annexes, change controls, and dispute framework before executing a supplier agreement.
Read articleChina Supplier Due Diligence
Build a risk-based China supplier due-diligence system from initial screening through samples, contracting, production, payment, shipment, and repeat orders.
Read articleUse a Company Report for Approval
Turn a dated China company report into a concise supplier approval memo with transaction scope, findings, conditions, owners, and a clear release decision.
Read articleVerify a Chinese Manufacturer
A product-specific method to verify a Chinese factory's site, equipment, people, process, quality records, capacity, subcontractors, and sample-to-batch control.
Read articleCheck a Supplier's Bank Beneficiary
A finance workflow for matching a Chinese supplier's contract party, invoice issuer, ultimate bank beneficiary, account evidence, and receiving jurisdiction before payment.
Read articleCheck a Chinese Company's Registered Address
A practical address investigation that preserves the Chinese registry string, normalizes each location component, and separates map, delivery, occupancy, and factory evidence.
Read articleVerify a Chinese Export Trading Company
A route-based review of a Chinese trader's legal identity, customs-facing evidence, seller, invoice, beneficiary, factories, declaration party, and product-document chain.
Read articleAssess Supplier Litigation Before a PO
A purchase-order decision method that groups related Chinese court records, reads seven case facts, and compares them with deposit, tooling, delay, and continuity exposure.
Read articleRead a Chinese Company Annual Report
A two-year comparison method for separating filing-time and year-end fields, tracing changes in contact, ownership, contribution, workforce, and financial disclosures, and requesting the right supporting evidence.
Read articleVerify a Supplier Before Tooling Payment
A payment-gate method that links the legal counterparty, tool specification, physical ID, trial evidence, custody, technical package, ownership, and transfer plan before funds are released.
Read articleChoose the Right Chinese Company Record
A role-specific candidate elimination method that uses the full Chinese legal name, USCC, location, licence fields, and transaction clues without merging related or similar companies.
Read articleFind a Chinese Company from an English Name
A clue-ladder workflow for turning an English supplier name into evidence-backed Chinese entity candidates through documents, websites, ICP filings, domains, locations, products, and exact legal identifiers.
Read articleBuild a Supplier Approval File
A practical supplier approval file structure for preserving legal identity, evidence sources, query dates, entity relationships, open issues, signed decisions, access controls, and refresh triggers.
Read articleHow to Use ChinaValidate Company Search
A tested walkthrough of ChinaValidate search inputs, candidate matching, profile access, evidence retention, and the decisions the tool cannot make for a buyer.
Read articleAsk a Chinese Supplier for Its Business License
Natural English and Chinese request wording, acceptable paper and electronic formats, a fast intake check, and a refusal ladder for supplier onboarding.
Read articleUse a USCC Validator
A four-gate method for using a USCC format tool, stricter company search, legal-entity match, and payment-file comparison without overstating a green result.
Read articleTranslate a Chinese Company Name
A practical method for keeping the legal Chinese name, supplier English name, analyst translation, pinyin, and internal alias separate in a vendor record.
Read articleUnified Social Credit Code Guide
Understand how China's 18-character Unified Social Credit Code identifies an organization, where to find it, how to record it, and how to resolve conflicting copies.
Read articleHow to Verify a Chinese Company
Build a defensible Chinese company verification file by matching registered identity, operating claims, public records, transaction parties, and proportionate follow-up evidence.
Read articleStart checking Chinese companies now
Search first, review matching entities, then open the company profile that matches your supplier record.