Resources
Chinese Business License
A Chinese business license identifies a registered market entity through its legal name, USCC, type, representative, capital, address, scope, date, and authority.
Use 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.
Chinese Company Types
Chinese company and market-entity types distinguish limited companies, share companies, sole proprietorships, partnerships, and branches with different legal structures.
Translate 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.
Branch 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.
Documents to Check Before a Wire Transfer
Build a five-tab supplier payment packet that assigns owners, freshness rules, and exception approval to identity, contract, invoice, and bank evidence.
Shareholder 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.
Verify a Supplier After Canton Fair
Turn a Canton Fair booth, card, catalog, and follow-up email into a verified exhibitor, manufacturer, seller, sample, and payment evidence chain.
Chinese 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.
Review a Supplier Before a Repeat Order
Compare the last approved supplier baseline with current registration, operations, bank details, quality, and delivery trends before approving a repeat order.
Supplier Refuses to Provide a USCC
Use a four-message clarification ladder to separate USCC terminology, authority, jurisdiction, and transaction-role problems from unresolved supplier identity risk.
Invoice 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.