Field notesCN / WORLD
Short articles on China-side company verification, sourcing risk and market signals, written for international buyers. Every note states its sources, its query date and the limits of what the evidence can show.
NOTES / 01
New notes are added as dated entries. Each one links back to the free tools and official-source guides it builds on.
CONTRACTING IDENTITY
How to keep a public legal-representative field, a deal signatory and supplier-provided role statements as separate dated evidence records—without deciding signing authority or contract validity.
ENTITY HISTORY
How to keep an official company change, the current record and deal documents as dated evidence lines—without treating a change as proof of fraud or supplier risk.
ENTITY IDENTITY
How to preserve an English sales label, Chinese legal entity, Unified Social Credit Code and deal documents as four dated evidence lines—without converting a match into a safety verdict.
SOURCING RISK
How to keep an official registered address and a claimed production site as two dated evidence questions—without calling an address difference proof of fraud or proof of a factory.
PUBLIC RECORDS
How three China-side public-record categories become dated questions — not a composite judgement about a supplier, factory or transaction.
FACTORY SHOWCASE
The evidence threshold for a future public profile: legal identity, named site relationship, scoped product and document evidence, commercial boundaries, dated sources and visible gaps.
SOURCING RISK
What the 经营范围 line can and cannot tell you before you pay for any deeper check — and why it stays a wording signal, never proof of where your order is made.
NEXT CHECK
Start with the in-browser factory-or-trader reading, then prepare a dated China-side public-record check when you need an official snapshot with stated limits.