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Factory or trading company? Read the scope, free.
Start with what you have: an English or trading name, the registered Chinese name, an 18-character USCI code, or the business scope (经营范围). Name search returns candidates to confirm. Paste a scope for a free reading on your device; manufacturing and trading wording cannot verify a company or factory. Live lookup depends on source availability; the GSXT registration steps explain the official route.
Reports: packs from $26.55, single checks from $4.90 inside a pack. First order refundable, no reason needed — see how we’re run, refund terms included.
- Indicative reading, not a conclusion
- Paste mode never leaves your device
- Live lookup says “unavailable” and never guesses
Live lookup is limited to 10 searches per person in 15 minutes. It depends on a commercial data source, so it can be unavailable. When it is, it says so and never guesses. This page never queries, proxies or caches the official portal.
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- Wording analysis. It cannot see the registry or the factory floor
- Not a verdict on honesty: good traders exist, registered factories can outsource
- Not official evidence: for dated records, request the company check
How this reading works, with sources and examples
Paste the registration text. Get the reading.
It answers one question: does this scope read like a factory, or like a middleman? Manufacturing wording counts for, trading-only wording counts against, and the company name and registered address add weaker signals.
| Path | Lines | Where the answer comes from |
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| This page (free) | — | Your pasted text only. No registry is queried, proxied or cached. |
| Paid-check menu | 153 | Each check had a source set. A mapped source does not prove a returned record. |
Paste mode reads your text in the browser. The separate live lookup sends your search to our API and its commercial data provider. Each of the 153 checks in the saved 22 August menu had a source set. The old split of 134 automated and 19 manual lines could not be checked and has been withdrawn. Source links do not prove returned data or paid delivery.
This is the first, free step of a China company check: no account, nothing uploaded, the scope text read in your browser. It is one step of Chinese company verification; several more follow. To verify a Chinese company properly you also need the live registration status and the name match across contract, invoice and payee. That is the registry lookup and, where the portal will not answer, a China-side human check. If the supplier came from a marketplace, Alibaba supplier verification badges sit alongside this and replace none of it: what the badges actually establish.
I don’t know what the business scope is, or where to get it
It is one line on the supplier’s business licence: the single-page certificate every registered Chinese company has. You do not need to visit any Chinese website to get it.
The easy way: ask the supplier. Sending you their business licence is a routine request in China trade — every serious supplier has done it before. A supplier who will not send it is giving you a warning sign. Ask for a clear photo or PDF, then find the block labelled 经营范围. It is usually the longest paragraph on the licence: a run-on list of activities separated by semicolons or commas. Copy that whole block into the box below.
Two things worth knowing before you read it. The licence also carries the 18-character code: check its structure here first. It takes seconds and catches transcription errors. And a licence photo shows the licence as it was on the day it was photographed. Status can change afterwards, which is why the live status line is a separate question from the scope.
The official way: look it up yourself. Three steps, free, but harder than it sounds:
- Open the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System (国家企业信用信息公示系统) yourself. It is Chinese-only, and it may not open at all from outside China; here is what we measured, and what to do instead.
- Search the supplier’s exact registered Chinese name, or its 18-character Unified Social Credit Code.
- On the company page, copy the 经营范围 (business scope) line and paste it here with the registered name.
Only have an English name and no licence? The candidate search above finds the registered Chinese name from it. That name is what both routes need.
Sources, privacy, and how to check our work
Two modesPaste mode reads the text inside this page; what you paste is never uploaded. We do keep anonymous daily tallies: that the tool was opened, that it was used, that you started a live lookup and whether it found a record. A product area and value range are kept only if you choose to answer the optional sourcing question. None of them carries your text, your reading, the company you looked up, or your IP address. They are stored as daily counts, so there is no way to tie any of them back to a visit. Live lookup sends only the company name to our same-origin server. If the data source is unavailable or you hit the rate limit, the server says so explicitly; blank results never happen silently.
Check our work. Every record we return carries its source label and retrieval date. Those records are republished by a licensed Chinese business-information platform. They originate from the National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System (国家企业信用信息公示系统), China Judgements Online (中国裁判文书网) and the China Enforcement Information Disclosure Network (中国执行信息公开网). We do not query, proxy or cache those official portals ourselves. Confirm anything decision-critical against those systems, or against any independent platform you choose.
Expect small differences: platforms pick up and refresh records on different schedules, so a filing can appear on one before the other. A platform showing no record is not proof that no official record exists. And if any line in a paid report does not match what you find elsewhere, tell us. We re-check it by hand and either send you a corrected report or refund that line.
Trading company or manufacturer: the full method behind this check, and where the paper stops →
What a buyer-ready factory profile should include before you rely on it →
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Report packs start from $26.55. Automatic checks can return in seconds after payment confirmation. Choose a pack and any optional checks. This page calculates the published menu price locally. Review the price and terms before payment. Each delivered line identifies its source and query date. Larger reports, source delays or human review can take longer; the confirmation states the fallback delivery limit.
Before you pay, check which entity you mean. Use the code structure check and, when available, the free registry lookup above. A passing code does not prove identity. Compare the returned name and code with the licence, contract and payee. A report on the wrong entity answers nothing. Only have an English name? Find candidate registered names first.
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Your first order is refundable: no reason needed. If the first report you pay for leaves you unhappy, for any reason or none, tell us within 14 days of delivery. We refund it in full to the original payment method. Once per buyer, and it is written into the report terms, not just promised on this page. Fallback delivery limit: delivery is guaranteed within 72 hours of payment confirmation, and if we miss that you can cancel the affected lines for a full refund.
Ordered before? The first-order refund is used up, but this order is still covered line by line. A line whose source is unavailable is refunded. Late delivery makes the affected lines refundable. Any line that does not match what you find elsewhere is re-checked by hand and either corrected or refunded.
Ordering is open, and nothing is charged when you submit. The confirmation comes back straight away with the delivery window for your order. For the checkout methods it carries the payment link too, so you are not waiting on a reply before you can pay. Fulfilment starts once your payment is confirmed.
The next page reviews your selection and terms. The total is re-calculated on the server, and your order confirmation comes back with it straight away, carrying the delivery window and the payment link. No payment is taken and fulfilment does not start when you send the request — fulfilment starts only after your payment is confirmed. No registry report can confirm where your order is actually produced. When you need a person to read the official portals or walk the factory floor, that is a separate human-verification tier. Company and payment details are listed openly in the trust centre.How individual names are handled. Every report names companies in full. One individual is named as well: the legal representative, the person the registry lists as signing for the company. That name appears wherever a line you ordered returns it. No other individual is named. Some lines return a verdict only. A three-element match, for example, comes back as “matched” without showing the values it matched, and the report says so plainly, so no name is implied.
Other individuals connected to the supplier (individual shareholders, executives, key personnel, historical officers) appear with their roles, stakes, dates and statuses, with names withheld. In their place the report states whether the data source has the relevant person on record. You can still verify the supplier without exporting personal data.
This tiering is Currawong’s privacy-by-design product policy: it minimises person-level data by default. Applicable legal obligations depend on the nature, volume, sensitivity and circumstances of a transfer. The tiering is our own choice. No law forces it.
Browse all China supplier verification guides by buying stage →
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Official sources this page relies on
This tool reads business-scope wording against the rules that produce it. Those rules are published. Links were checked on 6 September 2026.
- SAMR: Regulation on market-entity registrationScope records what was registered, not what happens today.
- SAMR: Detailed rules for market-entity registrationWhy manufacturing verbs appear in some records and not others.
- GB 32100-2015: coding rule for the credit identifierThe structure and check digit this tool validates.
An indicative reading, not a conclusion. The tool never contacts a registry and what you paste never leaves your browser.