Trust
Factory vs. Trader: how to tell them apart
Business-scope, capacity and on-site signals that separate a real factory from a reseller marking up your order.
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Sourcing Guides
Practical playbooks to source China factories with confidence — trust, verification and closing the deal.
Verification
The factory audit checklist
What a proper audit covers — licenses, capacity, quality system, labor/EHS — mapped to ISO 9001.
9 min readRead guide
Quality
AQL & pre-shipment inspection, explained
ISO 2859-1 sampling, Critical/Major/Minor limits and when to run IQC / DUPRO / PSI / CLC.
8 min readRead guide
Map
China industrial cluster map
Where each category concentrates — Shenzhen electronics, Foshan appliances, Ningde batteries and more.
5 min readRead guide
Risk
Avoiding first-order pitfalls
The due-diligence steps that stop ~40% of first-time buyers from getting burned.
7 min readRead guide
Process
Writing an RFQ that gets real quotes
How to brief specs, MOQ, certs and lead time so factories can quote accurately the first time.
4 min readRead guide