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.

Sourcing from China

Sourcing from China: Directly from the factories or local wholesale market

Changes in China

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

For many years, you could purchase a Chinese-produced consumer good considerably (over 75%) cheaper in Western countries than in a shop in China. This was due to;

Few Chinese chain stores
Local Stores without the purchasing power
Exported goods have no sales tax
Poor transport infrastructure
Poor distribution within China
Underdeveloped Chinese consumer market

Government investments followed, and changes followed.

Chinese quality is changing

This all started to change in the last decade with phenomenal growth in the Chinese mobile network, giving national internet access to 80% of the Chinese population in only a few years. This, combined with government investments in transport infrastructure and a growth in China in disposable income resulted in;

Wholesalers and retailers online
Major online retail e-commerce sites, starting with TaoBao (part of Alibaba)
Many shopping malls have been built in every city and many towns
Lower and faster transport costs

The Chinese domestic consumer market's growth has increased imports of high-quality products from overseas. 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.

Manufacturing

The advantage Chinese manufacturing has over many countries is the end-to-end supply chain for factories.

Very few Chinese factories make all the parts for a product. For example, a simple battery bedside lamp has over 10 component parts, most of which will be sourced from different factories.

One of the best places to see this in operations is the Chinese wholesale markets found in most Chinese cities. If a wholesale shop does not have the component part you require, then they often can find it from another shop within minutes.

The products we recommend you look for from Chinese factories and suppliers are products that have already been successful in other countries other than your own markets. This gives you the working marketing, business plan, etc, module to review and adopt if appropriate.

Access to China has sourced over 300 products from China over many years. Our staff's understanding of the manufacturing process in China and the ability to local products and components.

Wholesale

Access to China trade business to business (b2b), not business to consumer (b2c). Within China, we have access to manufacturers and wholesale markets. This has cost time and money to achieve.

This is the same as b2c business. It takes time and money to build a market, follows and then sales.

We are looking for businesses with existing markets looking to source directly from China. We will support your sourcing from China end to end, from locating the products through to the shipping.

When working with customers and manufacturers, we are always looking for the next development in a product life cycle. Chinese businesses are no different to anywhere else in the world, priority is given to existing channels for new products and developments first.

If you looking to source directly from China. Please get in contact. We would like to see if we get your business trading.

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