Company record changes: 145 of 264 sampled logs had a change in the prior year.

Before relying on a saved supplier record

Keep the source, query date and relevant fields. These counts describe past changes in the saved frame; they do not give a risk rate for your supplier.

1. Past changes returned on 8 August 2026

The reported 12-month shares were Shandong 52.2% of 136, Anhui 56.6% of 113 and Yunnan 66.7% of 15. These are different-sized excerpts. They do not establish a national rate or explain provincial differences.

2. What moved in the last 12 months

The field counts use only each company’s twenty most recent entries. They can miss earlier changes in the same year. The chart uses the same denominator of 264. A capital change, a scope change and a new legal-representative label raise different follow-up questions. Their dates and labels alone do not tell us why they changed.

3. What this does to a screenshot

A saved screenshot shows what a source displayed when it was captured. This study did not compare your saved copy with today’s record or measure whether a change mattered to an order. Compare the changed field and its dates with a fresh official result and your deal documents.

Method: one query date, past change entries

The saved frame contains 264 names: Shandong 136, Anhui 113 and Yunnan 15. Collection notes identify them as excerpts of the sixth MIIT “Little Giant” list. The saved source list lacks the exact Shandong attachment; its third link is a registration regulation, not a company list. We could not retrieve the provincial originals in this review. On 9 September 2026, all 264 saved names matched the names and order in reprinted lists: Shandong, 136; Anhui, 113; and Yunnan, 15. The two PDFs were compared as text; the Yunnan image was checked line by line. This supports the saved names, not the authenticity of the provincial originals or the later commercial query results. The figures below describe the saved frame, not all Chinese manufacturers. See the saved source links and frame limits.

• The lookups. Each saved name was queried once through a commercial registry-data API on 8 August 2026. The collection recorded the source’s lifetime change total and the dates and category labels of its twenty most recent entries. We did not query the official portal directly.
• The windows. The 12- and 24-month counts look back from that query date. These are not two observations of the same company over time.
• The fields. Field counts cover the returned twenty-entry window. Older entries may be omitted. Source coverage and category matching can also affect counts; this is not a complete official history.
• The public file. We publish headline aggregates. Per-company logs are not public. Before-and-after content was discarded at collection. Readers can check the published arithmetic, but cannot reproduce each source row from the download. See our editorial policy.

What these numbers do not say

• No supplier verdict. The presence of a change does not establish distress, honesty or safety. We did not test its cause or its effect on an order.
• No expiry probability. A past-change share is not the chance that a particular screenshot is now wrong. We did not track saved records or future changes.
• No national or marketplace rate. This is one saved frame across three provinces, with the source-list gap stated above.
• One day, one channel. Dates and labels reflect what the commercial source returned on 8 August 2026. They are not fresh official verification of each company.

What a buyer can check

1. Save the source and query date with each record. An undated copy can be a lead, but it cannot establish when the details were current.
2. Compare the exact Chinese name and company code with the contract, invoice and payment instructions. Use the official search steps for a fresh record.
3. Ask which version applied at the signing or payment step. Keep the supplier’s answer separate from the source record.

Read business-scope wording free in your browser → This first pass does not verify the supplier’s identity or retrieve a complete change history. Check a code’s structure offline if needed; a valid format does not prove the code was issued to your counterparty.

For a human review, specify the company, changed field and dates. Agree the source and scope of the check before ordering.

When to recheck a saved record

The observed share was 54.9% (145 of 264) in the prior year, with a median of 320 days since the last returned change. Neither measure sets an expiry date. Any fixed review interval is a rule of thumb, not evidence of a safe period.

• At a decision gate. Before an order or payment, compare the fields that matter to it. Registered capital, business scope and legal representative are separate facts; a changed field needs its own explanation.
• Between decisions. Choose a review date that fits your next order and the consequences of relying on old details. This study does not validate a six-month schedule or provide monitoring.
• On a trigger. New bank details, a new seller name or a changed signing contact call for a separate check. The payment party consistency checker compares the names you enter in your browser. It does not verify account ownership or decide which name is correct.

Start with the free scope reading → For a dated official record, follow the official search guide or ask for a scoped human check. Save the date when the query actually ran.

A separate 45-code check of record availability

The 264-name study used one query date and looked back through returned change entries. A separate check on 21–22 August 2026 used 45 company codes selected from a 106-name China-listed trailer frame. It counted returned records. It did not measure how often companies changed. See how the 45-code subset was selected.

41 of 45 codes returned change records. This is a result for that selected group and source. A historical shareholder record does not, by itself, show that ownership changed. None of these counts verifies a supplier’s identity or explains a change.

Results were capped at twenty returned items per list. A returned count can omit later pages; a zero does not prove that no record exists elsewhere. The published counts measure record availability, not complete change totals or future change rates.

Questions about this study

How often did records change in this frame?

On 8 August 2026, 145 of 264 records (54.9%) showed a change date in the prior 12 months; 207 (78.4%) in 24 months. These are past dates returned by one source for a saved frame, not a national rate.

Does the study tell me when an old supplier check expires?

No. We queried past entries once. We did not track a saved check over time or measure whether a change affected an order. Compare your supplier’s dated fields and deal documents before relying on them.

Which companies and sources were used?

The saved frame has Shandong 136, Anhui 113 and Yunnan 15 names. Collection notes link it to sixth-batch MIIT Little Giant excerpts. Full source-list verification remains open, and the public download contains aggregates rather than company logs.

Citing this study

Quote or reproduce these figures freely, including commercially, provided you keep the query date (8 August 2026) and the saved frame (264 names: Shandong 136, Anhui 113, Yunnan 15) and the stated limits travel with them.

Archived copies, each with its own DOI, resolving independently of this site: Zenodo · Harvard Dataverse · figshare.

Machine-readable copy: the published headline aggregates as CSV — aggregate counts and shares only, one row per published measure, with the frame and query date on every row. No per-company records are published.

Currawong, “How often Chinese company records change”, change-log query for a saved 264-name frame described in collection notes as sixth-batch MIIT ‘Little Giant’ excerpts, with source-list verification still open, queried 8 August 2026. https://currawongweb.com/verify/china-company-record-change-study/ Dataset: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21858946

BibTeX

@dataset{currawong_verify_china_company_record_change_study_2026,
  author    = {Bao L. Zhou},
  title     = {{Registered-change velocity of 264 'Little Giant' manufacturers}},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Zenodo},
  doi       = {10.5281/zenodo.21858946},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21858946}
}

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This page reports aggregate change-log statistics. It is not legal advice, and it says nothing about any individual company’s stability, honesty or suitability.