Built by people who read Chinese company records for a living.

China: The Real Deal is a small verification service for overseas buyers who are about to pay a Chinese supplier they have not worked with before.

Who is behind this

Our founder co-founded an enterprise credit-service company in China in 2015 and has spent twenty years in big data and credit services. That work meant reading registry records, court filings and company paperwork every day, and watching overseas buyers get the same thing wrong: trusting an English trading name instead of the legal entity behind it. This service exists to close that gap.

We are not a law firm, not an inspection company, and not affiliated with any Chinese government registry. We read registry records and company paperwork and explain what they do and do not show.

Who writes and reviews

Our guides are written by our registry research team and reviewed by an experienced enterprise credit reviewer before they are published. Every statement about a Chinese rule links to the official text it relies on, and each guide shows the date it was last updated.

Every verification report is reviewed by an experienced enterprise credit reviewer before it is sent. Self-serve lookup reports are generated from a commercial data provider's records and are not reviewed by a person.

How we choose sources, and how to report a mistake: How we work and corrections.

How we verify

• We start from the Chinese legal name and the 18-digit Unified Social Credit Code, never from an English trading name. If the documents you send do not let us identify one legal entity with confidence, we stop and ask for more, and refund if it cannot be resolved.
• We check your documents against each other: licence, quotation, proforma invoice, beneficiary details. Inconsistencies are described, and we tell you which ones are common in legitimate trade and which ones are warning signs.
• Every finding identifies its evidence and limits: supplied documents, direct registry checks and commercial-provider records are labelled separately. Company-reported information is identified as such. "No record found", "not disclosed", "not supplied", "not covered" and "lookup failed" are distinct outcomes.
• A person reviews every verification report before it is sent. Software helps us extract and translate; it does not decide.

What we do not do

• We do not confirm production capacity, product quality, or delivery performance.
• We do not confirm who owns a bank account. Only the receiving bank can do that.
• We do not give a score. Scores hide what is actually known and what is not.
• We do not sell, resell or store Chinese registry data. Files you upload are deleted 30 days after delivery.

The company

This service is operated by ThinkAsModel Limited, a company incorporated in Hong Kong.
Room 15, 11/F, China United Plaza, 1008 Tai Nan West Street, Lai Chi Kok, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Public record

Search the exact name on the Hong Kong Companies Registry e-Services Portal (company-name search is free).

Questions before ordering: support@chinatherealdeal.com