Access to China

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.

QR codes

QR codes in China

QR codes, an abbreviation of Quick Response codes, have been around since 1994. In 2000, QR codes international standards were published, and QR codes became widely available.

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QR code is a method of "barcoding" a string of data. You can use QR codes for website, email address, APP address, WeChat information, etc.

In the western countries at the outset, QR codes were not used widely. Just sharing a small amount of data by voice, email, text, etc. was straightforward, "Our website is www.accesstochina.com" My email address is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., and so on.

Typically, there is a simple assumption that we all speak English and use a Latin alphabet!

Not the case;

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In the first part of this century, China started growing its technology. As this technology became widely available to the public, the use of Latin characters was an issue. Small words in Latin characters, as used in Pinyin, was not a problem. Strings of Latin characters making long meaningless words in a different language are very much harder to understand, spell, or transcribe.

A more significant issue was passwords. Given the problem with using Latin characters, a lot of Chinese passwords were short and not changed very often.

Chinese social media solution overcame the password issue by using QR codes to supply password links, with embedded long and complex passwords, to access their services. As a result, QR scans are available in the Chinese social media, and all users learn to scan QR codes to obtain social media services.

Given that Chinese social media users, which are most of the internet users in China, know how to scan QR codes, QR codes became widely used in China.

Today we see QR codes everywhere in China. They have replaced the use of domain names in marketing and sales. Businesses and people have replaced the writing of their internet links with QR code.

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Today you see QR code everywhere in China;

Website
Internet login / passwords
Supermarket
Billboard adverts
Information displays

QR codes have also replaced the prineting of URLs, email, and social media addresses on business cards.

Here are a few examples:

A QR code can be in different colours, styles, and with or without logos embedded in the centre.

The significant advanced of QR code over a barcode is its flexible to store different types and volumes of data.

Given that the people no longer have to type the URL, you can add additional information in the URL to track the inquiry source, e.g., use different URLs on brochure, website, promotion, etc. You can follow the use of your QR codes.

At this point in China, you are seeing QR throughout China and increasing used world-wide.

Are there a few problems;

Outside China, not everyone uses, knows, or has a QR scan on their Mobile Phone. Your URL still needs to printed on brochures, business cards, etc.
Longer the URL, passwords, etc. the more complex the QR code. It can result in the QR code becoming too large to enable the QR code to be read successfully.
QR code colour must contrast with the background colour. A QR code is successfully scanned if there is a sharp contrast between the background and QR code colour, e.g., Access to China home page ( https://www.accesstochina.com ) image has a black QR code in the top righthand corner. Not our regular QR code, see above, the change was necessary to allow the QR code to be successful read.
You must test your QR code between publishing. Many of with problems with QR codes are corrected at the outset with simple with few simple tests.

Access to China QR codes recommendations

Create QR codes and publish them on all marketing materials and business cards, etc.
Add your QR code(s) to the home page of your company website. In China, often readers/users transfer web content from desktop to mobiles. A QR code makes this straight forward.
Use different URL codes for tracking sources of business, e.g., Brochure, Business card, website.
Always check and test QR codes are working both for seeing the website and tracking system
Do not use a long URL, email address as the QR code becomes too complex and harder for the QR scanners to read.

Our recommendation, use the free QR code generators to understand how they work and what design characteristics look right for your business. QR code design companies are available on the internet if you need assistance.

If looking to create a QR code, you find many free tools on the internet to generate your QR code, e.g.

Please note:

When creating QR code add http;// or https:// to the front of the website name, e.g., http://www.accesstochina.com, or for email, mailto:This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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