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.

Emailing

Emailing in China check list

The approach to email addresses has been different in China. Historically many people use their private email account for business not a company email address.

This often means verifying who works for which company can be confusing.

This has been changing in recent years;

Chinese business has started using their own domain name
New email providers are now available, e.g. Microsoft 360, QQ mail, etc.

In China today there is no reason for a company not to have its own email accounts.

If you are running an office in China we recommend that all inform all staff to use only the company email system on all published information.

Please remember if using your overseas company email system for your Chinese business it may be slow to use and staff will start creating their own Email address to work around the problem. We recommend using a local Chinese email service to get around response time problems.

When visiting China please you remember not all overseas email systems can be seen from China. This normally applies to email services run by Google.

If you require an email system for your Chinese office or while you are visiting China, we recommend QQ mail – https://en.mail.qq.com

Going forward, the use of email, while will not be replaced, should see WeChat messaging as the preferred commutation tool for business and the public. WeChat has all the tools that you fine in an Email system plus messaging and file transfer service (like skype and drop box).

In China people will ask for your WeChat account before your email address. We recommend that open a WeChat account for your business before start trading in China.

last modified: Version V1.3 - 18 June 2019