How Can Small Businesses Find Reliable Manufacturers in China?

I also started as a small businessman. When I flew to China with my team to inspect factories, I stepped on many pitfalls. I can introduce you to some low-cost methods to initially screen reliable suppliers.

Priority is given to selecting merchants with Verified Supplier and Trade Assurance in 1688 stores. Relying on gold medal suppliers alone is useless. Many middlemen can open them with money. Click on the store to see a screenshot of the business scope. The probability that the business license with "production, processing, manufacturing" is a real factory is higher; the business scope only includes sales, import and export, and the address is written as an office building, which is basically a trade middleman.

Add WeChat, which is selling across the street, and one day while chatting, suddenly asked him to visit the factory and asked him to take you around the production line and warehouse through real-time video. If you don't shirk it at all, you can basically confirm that it is a real factory.

Pay attention to the operating varieties of 1688 store. The product line of the factory is highly single. For example, when making stainless steel water cups, it is only related to water cups. If a store sells toys, home appliances, and luggage at the same time, the probability of intermediate traders is extremely high, the supply of goods is unstable and the price will be high.

Use China's mapping software to verify whether the supplier's production address actually exists and whether it is a large factory. This method can only have a certain probability, because many manufacturers 'real-life maps are not entered into map software.

Pay for verification of corporate risks, such as whether there are multiple lawsuits, whether the company has patents, the number of people in the company's social security, the company's paid-in funds for operations, changes in company information, etc.