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.

GEO DNS and CDN services

Geo DNS and CDN Services

Geo DNS stands for Geographical Domain Name System. It is a DNS-based service that routes users to different servers or IP addresses based on geographical location. Geo DNS helps optimise website performance, improve load times, and distribute traffic by directing users to the nearest or most appropriate server, often used with CDNs for global content delivery.

CDN stands for Content Delivery Network. It is a network of servers distributed worldwide that efficiently delivers content to users, such as websites, videos, and other digital assets. CDNs reduce latency, improve load times, and enhance overall user experience by caching content closer to the end-users.

Geographical Domain Name System (Geo DNS) – Improve service performance

Geo DNS is used to increase the performance of your website, API, etc.

Firstly, you would place your website data servers in locations that give your customers the best performance. For example, if your customers are UK and Chinese, the best places for your internet data would be the UK and China.

A Geo DNS would send (route) your customer to the best data server location, giving them the fastest response times.

Continuing the example above, you may program the Geo DNS to send all traffic originating from Asia to China data servers and the rest of the world traffic to the UK data server.

A task should run between the data servers in the background, keeping the data between the servers in syndication.

In summary, a Geo DNS performs;

Geolocation Data - When a user requests access to a domain, their IP address is used to determine their geographic location. This is achieved through IP geolocation databases or services.
DNS Resolution - Based on the user's geographic location, the DNS server selects the most suitable IP address or server from a pool of options. This selection is made according to predefined rules set by the domain owner.
DNS Response- The DNS server responds to the user's request with an IP address corresponding to the server or data centre closest to their location. This minimises latency and improves load times.
Content Delivery- The user is directed to the chosen server or data centre serving the requested content.

Geographical Domain Name System (Geo DNS) – sending a customer to a different domain.

International, sending a customer to a local/regional service is often required. For example, banks operate according to rules and regulations within the country; therefore, a customer needs to be sent to the country's website, not an international one. This is often the case for local purchasing from e-commerce sites.

Standard Geo DNS can only change the IP address, so you will require a middle step to the Domain routing. The middle step will change the domain / URL to a different service. This is straightforward and should be performed on the local country server, known as “website forwarding.”

The issue is that customers travelling to a different country cannot be connected to their country service as they will always be connected to the local country service.

Benefits of GeoDNS

Improved Performance - By directing users to the nearest or most appropriate server, GeoDNS reduces latency and improves load times.
Load Balancing - Distributes traffic among multiple servers or data centres, balancing the load and preventing any single server from becoming overwhelmed.
Disaster Recovery - Provides redundancy by directing users to alternative servers if the primary server fails or needs maintenance.
Compliance and Localization - This feature helps comply with regional regulations by directing traffic to servers that meet local data residency requirements. It can also provide localised content based on the user's region.

Content Delivery Network (CDN) services

CDN services bring together a Geo DNS and locally stored information close to the customer's location.

This is one way Cloud Service works. You load your information to a centre server/location. The cloud service should keep a backup copy across data centres and distribute your data to where it is most used.

The CDN servers typically use this for Multimedia content, video, images, etc., which are larger files and take longer to transmit across the Internet. Storing these types of files locally to customers dramatically improves the performance of your services.

This works successfully in many parts of the world. This is not the case for China.

The CDN service uses its domain name for your CDN data. For example, your domain, “Fred.com,” is the same, but the CDN service, e.g., “Bill,” uses its domain name for your data: Bill.com. All Bill CDN data worldwide use their domain name.

If the Chinese authorities find images/files in the Bill.com CDN system that break the publishing rules in China, they can block the CDN data from China. Usually, like with Google files, they limit the amount of data that can enter China, significantly slowing down the CDN service.

If a CDN service is using your domain, in the above example “Fred.com”, this would not be an issue as the Chinese authorities publishing rules by domain will not be an issue; they can monitor each site independently.

In summary, many Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) use GeoDNS as part of their system to optimise content delivery. Here's how CDNs and GeoDNS work together:

Geographic Routing - CDNs have multiple servers or nodes distributed across different locations. When a user requests content, GeoDNS can route the request to the nearest CDN node based on the user's geographic location.
Improved Performance - Directing users to the closest CDN node reduces latency, and the content loads faster. This is because the data does not have to travel as far and leverages the CDN's infrastructure to deliver content efficiently.
Load Balancing - GeoDNS helps distribute traffic among various CDN nodes. If one node is experiencing high traffic or is under maintenance, GeoDNS can redirect traffic to another nearby node.
Content Caching - CDNs cache content at various edge locations. GeoDNS ensures that users are served content from the cache closest to them, improving load times and reducing the load on the origin server.
Redundancy and Reliability - CDNs can provide redundancy by using GeoDNS. If one node is down or experiencing issues, traffic can be automatically redirected to other healthy nodes.

Last modified: V2.2 - 18 September 2024