NOTE · BEFORE YOU WIRE

Tianyancha and Qichacha if you cannot read Chinese

Tianyancha and Qichacha exist. Overseas buyers still hit language, IP blocks, and a page of fields with no English recommendation about whether to wire. I read the public file and write that memo. I am not Tianyancha, not Qichacha, and not a reseller of either.

The registry problem is not “no data”

When US buyers ask for a “Chinese company registry,” they usually mean a commercial database such as Tianyancha or Qichacha, or the official enterprise publicity system those products draw from. The filings cover legal name, status, registered capital, shareholders, related companies, and often lawsuits, enforcement, and liquidation flags.

The records exist. The gap is not a missing government file. The gap is that the useful fields are in Chinese, the interfaces are built for users in China, and a raw extract is not a payment decision.

What foreigners actually hit

From the US, these sites may present a login wall, a captcha loop, or an IP block. Some features expect a mainland mobile number or a real-name check. Machine translation of a company page is uneven. Legal-person suffixes, historic names, and court-docket shorthand do not survive a generic translate button.

Even when the page loads, you still have to know what you are looking at. “Shareholder” on a Chinese filing is the registered shareholder. That is a clue about related entities, not a certainty about the ultimate beneficial owner. A missing lawsuit in one commercial database is not proof that no case exists. A status of existing / in business is not a solvency opinion.

An English database page still is not a memo

Tianyancha and similar products have offered English-facing pages at times. Those pages, when they work, are still a dump of fields, dates, and related names. They will not tell you that the English name on your PI is a storefront brand, that the registered address is a commercial mall rather than a plant, or that the bank beneficiary is a different 有限公司.

That last step is what a US buyer needs before a deposit. The memo I write tags each finding CONFIRMED FACT, RISK INDICATOR, NOT VERIFIED, RECOMMENDED ACTION, or LIMITATION. Unknown stays unknown. I do not turn a thin file into a clean result.

What I actually check

For one Chinese legal entity I check legal identity, registered shareholders and related-entity clues, available lawsuits and enforcement, and liquidation or other status flags. I also look at whether the public file is consistent with a factory claim, when that claim is part of what you were told.

You send the Chinese name or a business-license image. I first confirm whether I can identify the entity and take the case. If I cannot, I tell you before payment. If I can, you receive the memo within 72 calendar hours after payment, weekends included. Founding-client price $240 for cases accepted before 31 October 2026. Regular price $490.

What I will not claim

I do not provide live Tianyancha or Qichacha logins, bulk data, or an API. I do not paste a dashboard into your inbox and call it research. I do not certify ultimate beneficial ownership. I do not clear customs. I do not replace a factory audit, and I do not sell one.

If you can already read the Chinese file and you only wanted a PDF export, you do not need me. If you cannot read it, or you can read it but you want a second person to say what matters for a wire, that is the work. Email [email protected], or send the company name on the homepage form.