Start trading in the Chinese markets

Ranging from consumers, wholesalers, agents, and factories, from raw materials to the products in the hands of the consumer. Access to China, a UK based company, has been operating in the Chinese markets for over 20 years with over 100 years of experience among our staff.

Over the last ten years, China has moved most of its trading online. Given the size of the country and cities and 1.4 billion people, the Internet has allowed the country to grow its internal markets. This has allowed consumer prices to be driven down and quality to be greatly increased. Given these and many other benefits, the adoption of Internet technology has been fast in China.

This adoption of new technology does not stop with the internet; green technology adoption is growing very fast. Green tech is seen in China as cheaper, fastest and functionality richer. The Chinese government are driving the development due to the high pollution level in China.

Green technology our focus for 2024. Today, China is the world's largest producer and user of Green technology.

Access to the world's largest market

Overseas social media is not available in China. Having your website seen and found is critical to successful business relationship building in China.

Many regions and countries worldwide speak Mandarin, i.e., Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, California, Hong Kong, Vietnam and many more. Adding Mandarin language to your SEO data can open your website to trading worldwide beyond China. The Chinese market goes way beyond the 1.4 billion people living in China.

Given the importance of being seen on the internet in China and Chinese markets worldwide, Access to China focus of our business is getting your business, products and services seen online in China.

Chinese green technology

Green Technology is key to most businesses’ growth in the next five years. Chinese Green Technology has been developing rapidly, given consumers and government demands to reduce China's high pollution levels.

Green technology is key to most businesses’ growth in the next five years.

The development of Green Technology is starting to give greater efficiencies, reduce costs, and increase productivity, i.e., electric vehicles; greatly reduced operating costs, greatly improved performance, and improved safety.

We believe Green Technology should give you more, not less.

Sourcing products and services from China

For the last 40 years, China has built up its manufacturing base to be one of the most successful in the world.

In recent years, the growth of the Chinese domestic consumer market has increased imports from overseas of high-quality products. In turn, this has driven up the quality of locally produced products. Today, China is moving towards better quality products.

Lower-quality products are moving to other Asian countries.

The global issues, starting with the virus in early 2020 and continuing today with conflicts around the world, resulted in a rethinking of supply chains. The repatriation of manufacturing back to your country using China's production know-how is an option for consideration.

Chinese trading information and recommendation

Access to China information and recommendations for your consideration to support your Chinese trading ambitions. In our trading in China for over 20+ years, running and operating Chinese businesses, we have gathered lots of information and recommendations.

Short video presentations (coming February 2024)
Internet in China information
Papers and reports
Useful links

We are happy to share this information and are always interested in adding to the pool of information. Any ideas, requests or information, very well.

: Last Updated: 13 September 2024

up to date content

Up-to-date products, services and business information

Many businesses have publications ranging from internet content to traditional paper business cards and brochures. For example;

Your Website & e-Commerce
Business platforms: e.g. LinkedIn
Video and Social media: e.g. YouTube, Facebook
Messaging services; e.g. Whatsapp
Email platforms, e.g. Gmail, AWS, etc
Third-party e-Commerce. e.g. Amazon, eBay
Supporting media: brochures, business cards, etc.

Keeping your business content up-to-date with your products, services and business information is stating the obvious. Many companies are increasingly finding this challenging, given the number of platforms and channels that need to keep updated with company information and data.

When considering a new market like China, it is essential to review your public information, both online and paper-based. This is especially true in China, given that international social media and messaging platforms are unavailable there.

Do you need to set up a new platform for the Chinese market besides your existing public business information? WeChat would be our recommendation. This can range from a personal account for messaging (WhatsApp is the nearest comparison we have to a personal account on WeChat) to a business account linking to your website, i.e., one that looks and works like a web app inside WeChat.

The problem with any new platform and channel is that it creates more information that needs updating.

What information do you want to take to the Chinese market?

Chinese businesses will often check your company's internet content to better understand your business before and after meetings.

Overseas business is often conducted in a second language, leading to misunderstandings when ideas and products are new to an overseas company. Your company's internet content is the key to understanding what your company is offering.

In the Chinese market, your company's internet content is often used for;

As a reference point to check your business existence
Business look and feel
To share information with bosses and colleagues
Where Chinese government funding is involved, both the Chinese and UK governments will check your business details.

Most large companies in China are government-owned or have government agreements to deliver critical components of the Chinese 5-year plan. In these cases, different Chinese authorities will check your business, and references can be made to your county embassy before opening into business agreements. Having your website up to date is critical in these monuments.

Please remember that the best people to update your public information content are the business, which is the business management, not the IT staff. You may need assistance from IT staff with the design and coding. Good internet content is the responsibility of the business.

Note: - Dating your internet pages will help the search engines. If your company's internet content is kept updated, the Search Engines will prefer your content.

Access to China recommendations

Determine what platform and channels you will use for public business information in the Chinese market: at minimum, set up a WeChat account.
Determine responsibility for maintaining this information.
Ensure the Chinese plans contain the time to update any information needed for the Chinese market.

Last modified:V2.9 - Sept 2024