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.

Chinese e-Commerce Links

Tmall and Tmall Global

Tmall is part of the Alibaba group. These e-Commerce services was created from Taobao. Alibaba wanted to create an e-Mall for more “Upmarket” / “exceptive” goods.

It started with Tmall for Chinese domestic market and then Tmall global for the international products.

While Tmall global is based in Hong Kong when you search in Tmall in China you see links to Tmall Global products therefore opening the Chinese market to overseas e-Commerce.

Taobao

Taobao is part of the Alibaba group. This was one of the original Chinese domestic e-Malls’

Taobao also started “Batchelor Day” in Chinese. This was started before the USA created Cyber Monday. Batchelor Day is on the 11th November each years and creates a billons of $US of on-line trading in a single day.

Day all Chinese e-Malls are part of “Batchelor Day” including overseas business trading in the Chinese market.

WeChat

Calling WeChat an e-Commerce site may upset persist as WeChat defines its self as a “services platform” not specifically a shop or social media.

In the same way you can create your own store inside Tmall, Amazon, etc. you can create a store inside WeChat. There are two main difference:-

Each store is individual and the store products are not sold against each other. Therefore it is not e-Mall, i.e. not an on-line department store.
Each store is independent and do not share the same service levels, processes and procedures. Their social median customer satisfaction keeps the stores or good trading practices.

Chinese business have very successfully created stores inside WeChat is owned by Tencent.

It is not clear at this stage how overseas companies can use this platform inside China as trading rules and regulations only allow trading inside China on the internet if you own a Chinese business.

JDbuy

JDBuy is partly owned by Tencent group who also own QQ and fast growing WeChat.

Tencent have integrated WeChat and QQ into JDBuy.

The growth in the use of WeChat has resulted in very large growth in the use of JDBuy.

Based on current growth, JDBuy could overtake Tmall and Taobao as main e-Mall platform in China.

China Amazon

China Amazon was one of the first e-Malls in China. It is Joint Venture business between Kingsoft, Chinese business originally trading on the internet as Joyo.com, and Amazon.

In the early days of trading it was very successfully.

This business was taken by Taobao, Tmall, and JDBuy mainly due to better operating process, end to end integrated system, e.g. social media, payment gateways, and marketing. Between Alibaba and Tencent they have over 80% of the internet users in their databases.

China Amazon is still trading in China with less than 2% of the e-Commerce market.

DangDang

DangDang has been trading on the internet in China sinace 1998.

It's main products range is books, music, and software. DangDang also has a large range of fastion products.

DangDang is part of the small e-malls in the Chinese e-Mall market.

Suning

Suning started online selling electronics goods.

These days Suning sells a full range of products and merchandising.

Yihaodian

Yihaodian was developed as an on-line food and daily groceries by Walmart.

Walmart have sold the business to JDBuy and return have shares in JDBuy.

This e-commerce store is design as a mobile site / APP. It does not look good on a deak top.

Jumei

Jumei successfully trades in cosmetic products.