Three samplesReal company, nothing redacted
What a China supplier report contains — and what it never will.
Most verification services show you a price and a promise, never the artefact. This page shows three of them, one per service tier: the free registry snapshot, a $149 human record check run against a real company, and the on-site verification — which we describe rather than fake, because we have not delivered one yet. The company is named and nothing is blanked out, because a sample you cannot check proves nothing.
About these samples, and why the company is named
Everything below is a real query result, run on 14 August 2026 against 宁波均胜电子股份有限公司 (Ningbo Joyson Electronic), a company listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Nothing is redacted, invented or padded.
Most sample reports blank out the subject. We did too, for about six hours, and then took it back out — because a sample with the values removed demonstrates nothing except that we own a template. You cannot judge a verification service on a report you cannot check. Every line below can be checked against the official record yourself.
The boundary we do hold is a different one: no natural persons. Company registration data describes a legal entity and is public record. Personal information — names of legal representatives, shareholders, executives, ID numbers — is what China’s cross-border data rules actually govern, and every one of the fifteen licence records below returned an empty person field, so this page carries none. That distinction is also what China’s own rules turn on: under Article 3 of the CAC’s 2024 cross-border data provisions, data from international trade activity that contains no personal information and no “important data” is exempt from the three transfer mechanisms entirely. Article 5(4) is a different rule, covering transfers that do contain personal information below a headcount threshold; it does not apply here, and we would rather cite the right one than the one that sounds broader.
We have no relationship with this company. It is not a client, and none of this is an assessment of it. It was chosen because it is listed, its record is unusually complete, and anyone can reproduce the queries. A private supplier’s record will be thinner than this — which is itself worth knowing before you buy.
REPORT 1 OF 3
L1 — Registry snapshot (free)
What the free search returns from an English supplier name. No account, no charge, runs in seconds.
| Field | Value | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Registered Chinese name | 宁波均胜电子股份有限公司 | The legal identity. The English name you were given is a trading name; it is not what is registered. |
| Unified Social Credit Code | 9133020060543096X6 | The 18-character key. Validate its structure here — a mistyped code is the commonest reason a search returns nothing. |
| Registration status | 存续 — active | The most consequential line. What each status word means; 吊销 is the one that looks alive from outside. |
| Entity type | 股份有限公司(上市) — joint-stock, listed | Listed companies disclose more than private ones. Most suppliers are not listed, and their record will be shorter than this. |
| Registered capital | 1,550,770,563 CNY | Subscribed, not necessarily paid in. A large figure is not evidence of cash. |
| Established | 1992-08-06 | Registration age — not trading history, and not a quality signal. |
| Registered address | Zhejiang province (full street address returned) | The registration authority’s area. Not necessarily the factory site. |
What L1 settles: whether the name you were given resolves to a live registered entity at all. If it does not, nothing further is worth buying yet.
What L1 cannot do: it reads one snapshot. It does not check licences, tax status, court records or ownership, and it carries no human reading of what the fields imply.
REPORT 2 OF 3
L3 — Human record check ($149, delivered in 3 business days)
Selected public-record checks, read China-side from official portals, each line carrying its source, its query date and its stated limits. Below is the Identity & compliance pack executed against the same company — document numbers and all.
Administrative licences — 15 records returned
| Subject | Issuing authority | Document no. | Decided |
|---|---|---|---|
| 账户变更 — bank account change | 中国人民银行宁波市中心支行 (PBOC Ningbo) | J3320029708901 | 2017-12-21 |
| Merger review — decision not to proceed to further examination | 国家市场监督管理总局 (SAMR) | 反执二审查决定〔2024〕595号 | 2024-11-19 |
| Construction works planning permit — 同意 (granted) | 宁波市自然资源和规划局高新技术产业开发区分局 | 建字第3302122024GG0018415号 | 2024-02-06 |
| Change of registration (one of three filed the same day) | 浙江省工商行政管理局 | 330201200730125892988 | 2020-07-29 |
| Approval for non-standard working hours | 宁波高新区人力资源和社会保障局 | 甬高新特殊工时许可〔2025〕10号 | 2025-04-27 |
| Approval for non-standard working hours (earlier) | 区人力资源和社会保障局 | - | 2023-04-25 |
Four things in that table are worth more than the count of fifteen.
- The bank account change. A central-bank record that this entity changed its account, dated. Most buyers do not know this category of record exists, and it is the one that speaks to the moment money moves.
- Three change registrations on a single day (2020-07-29). Registration data is not stable furniture: in our census of 264 officially recognised manufacturers, 54.9% amended their registration within twelve months.
- A planning permit is the only line here that touches physical premises — and even it describes a permission, not a running plant.
- The last row’s document number is a dash. The registry returned
-, so we print-. Several rows also carry an end date of2099-12-31or9999-12-31. Those are placeholders, not expiry dates. A report that renders them literally as “valid until 2099” is lying to you with true data.
Read what these licences actually are: working-hours approvals, registration changes, a merger decision, a planning permit. They confirm the entity is administratively live and regulated. They are not evidence of manufacturing capability — and a report that let you assume otherwise would be doing you harm.
General VAT taxpayer status — 2 records
| Qualification | From | To | Status flag |
|---|---|---|---|
| 增值税一般纳税人 | 2016-06-01 | 9999-12-31 | 1 |
| 一般纳税人 | 2016-06-01 | (empty) | 0 |
General VAT taxpayer since June 2016 — this decides whether a supplier can issue the VAT invoice your accounts need, and it is routinely assumed rather than checked. Note that the dataset returns the same fact twice under two labels with two different status flags. We show both rows rather than pick the tidier one.
Stated limit: taxpayer status says nothing about who actually invoices you. An affiliated exporter may be the entity on your invoice — and, per the bank-account record above, the account may have changed.
Spot checks & random inspections — 1 record
A special-equipment routine supervision inspection — plan 甬高市监抽查计划〔2021〕1号, task 甬高市监抽查〔2021〕9号, carried out by 宁波市市监局高新分局 on 2021-07-13, check type 定向 (targeted, not random). A regulator actually looking, on a dated plan.
Stated limit: covers only checks regulators actually ran, and the most recent one here is from 2021. Few entries can mean lightly inspected rather than clean.
Qualification certificates — no records found
The most instructive line in this sample. The query ran, the dataset answered, and the answer was 经查无结果 — nothing. No production licence is registered to this exact entity in that dataset. For a listed automotive-components group that is unsurprising: certificates often sit with subsidiaries, and many products need no licence at all.
A report that quietly dropped this line would read as a cleaner company. Ours records that the query ran and came back empty, because “we did not find it” and “it does not exist” are different sentences — and the empty result tells you exactly where to point the next question: which entity holds the certificate, and is it the one signing your contract?
What L3 settles: what the public record says about this entity, on a stated date, with each line’s source and limits named. The full 153-line menu and published prices — lines are bought individually, so no bundle pads the invoice with checks your decision does not need.
What L3 cannot do: it reads records. It cannot see the factory floor. Person-level records follow a tiered default: the legal representative is named in a delivered report to the buyer, other individuals are withheld unless separately unlocked. On this public page no individual is named at all — that is the line we hold, and it is the only one.
REPORT 3 OF 3
L4 — On-site factory verification (from $169 per man-day, quoted by scope)
We cannot show you a sample of this one, because we have not done one yet. Every other number, document number and date on this page came from a query we actually ran. An L4 report would have to come from a visit we actually made, and inventing one would be exactly the kind of thing this whole page argues against.
What it is, stated plainly: a person goes to the address, in mainland China, and reports what is there. Scheduled within 7 business days of payment confirmation; report within 2 business days after the visit; exact dates confirmed in your written quote.
What only a visit can settle — and no record ever will:
| Question | L1 / L3 records | On-site |
|---|---|---|
| Does production happen at the registered address? | No — even the planning permit above only shows a permission was granted | Yes |
| Real equipment, lines, workforce | No | Yes |
| Does the entity on the licence control this site? | Partially — ownership records only | Yes |
| Will they deliver on time, at quality? | No | Still no — that is a prediction, managed by contract terms and pre-shipment inspection |
When we have delivered an L4 with a client willing to have a version published, it will appear here. Until then this section stays as it is: a description of scope, not a sample.
Where to start
- Have a supplier name already? Run the free search — it returns the L1 snapshot in seconds, and settles many questions on its own.
- Have an 18-character code? Check its structure in your browser before anything else; it catches transcription errors for free.
- Need dated records with sources named? Request a China-side check, or read the published menu and prices first.
This page describes report structure. It is not legal advice, not a conformity assessment, and not a judgement about any company named on it.