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.

Chinese Internet Firewall

SChinese Internet Firewall

Chinese Internet Firewall

Chinese internet firewall check list

The Chinese authority manage the contents of internet; websites, social media, APP, etc., in China. This is often called the Great Chinese Firewall by the overseas press and businesses.

Many of Chinese internet rules and regulation protect the users and consumers.

While there are many views of weather this is a good or bad thing we recommend if wish to do business with another part of the world you need to respect local rules and regulations.

Generally, these are the areas not available in China

Political commits - some political commits are not allowed. This not as regulated as in the pass. Increasingly Chinese social media is used for news information and not overseas internet content. Most international news is available in China but not read
Social Media - most of the international social media is blocked in China. The exception to this is LinkedIn which is business social media.
Pornographic - not allow on the internet in China.
Google - Most products and services from Google while not blocked they are so slow to access in makes them unusable.

In the business world, which Access to China focuses on, the restrictions on overseas Social Media and Google can slow /stop your internet contents from being seen.

Overseas internet content is blocked by IP address. While this allows for to control access to specific internet content it does allow control of contents within an internet page. Therefore, Social Media site are blocked full.

In the case of overseas Social Media most is not accessible from China.

These at the time of writing are examples of international social media accessible / not accessible from China in changes from time to time.

Another example is where a Social Media is not accessible in China but there is replacement like product available.

you tube to YouKu

While YouTube is not available in China. There is many “like” services available in China. The biggest of which is YouKu. In this example you can take your business videos and load them to YouKu.

YouKu is like YouTube with advents often interrupting the screening of your video.

In business, YouTube / YouKu while a quick method of loading a video, embedding the video inside your internet content will require more work normally but will gives better results.

This is example of where the Chinese "Like" product is better than the oversea products due to local performance issues in mainland China.

dropbox baidu

Dropbox is available in mainland China. The download speed of the data from Dropbox is very slow in China. The better solution is Baidu Pan, which is now part of Baidu Cloud services.

While the loading of the data be Baidu Pan maybe be slower from outside China, the access speed in China is fast.

In China while many of the overseas Social Media not available there are many local Chinese replacements.

This bring me to the last and most important group of services not available in China: internet contents / tools services supplied by Google.

google sevices

Above are examples of Google not available in China. This statement is technical not correct. Google services are available in China but they are slow down to response time of minutes. This results in internet content using Google service take 5 to 10 minutes to load. To confuse things a little more sometimes they work and some days they do not work.

Example: Google Fonts – internet content often uses Google fonts for formatting the text etc. If you are using Google Fonts, loaded from a Google server, on some days your internet content will not load under 5 minutes!

This applies to all Google services; email, maps, photos, website analysis, etc.

Our services can help to resolve these issues. We recommend testing your internet contents from China - Web Page Test

last modified: Version 1.3 - 04 July 2019