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Source from China. With the evidence attached.

Three businesses share one record of who a company actually is: a factory, a forwarder, or a buyer’s sourcing partner. We are not a marketplace and we are not a freight rate screen. We are the desk that tells you which of those three you are looking at — and what the claim rests on.

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Written for buyers and business travellers working in Guangdong. The travel side of this site — scenic areas, stays, food, hospitals, villages — is a separate product and is not part of this desk; the three engines below are. Each page says plainly what exists today.

90.3m: inbound visits to Guangdong, 2025
15.2m: of them foreign nationals
+50.2%: year on year, foreign arrivals
21: prefecture-level cities in scope

Figures as published by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, carried by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism: 90,308,000 inbound visits, 15,217,000 foreign nationals, +38.2% and +50.2% year on year. Checked 2026-11-02 · source page. These numbers say the market exists. They say nothing about us — we publish our own counts, including the zeros.

01Three engines

One front door, three different jobs.

They are not three products launching together. Each one opens when the one before it can answer a question without guessing.

01In build Industrial Network制造网络 Manufacturers and industrial component suppliers, profiled by what they can actually make — machine list, tolerance, material, finishing, capacity — with the evidence behind each claim and a status that says how far it was checked. Starting from the provincial 专精特新 registers, not from whoever fills in a form. CNC machiningRobotics componentsAutomation componentsRFQCapability evidence 02In build Logistics Network物流网络 Freight forwarders and carriers, profiled by role and operating model rather than by the slogan on their homepage. A route is a claim until there is a waybill, a segment list and a date on it. AirSeaRailExpressCustomsRoute evidenceQuote comparison 03In design Procurement Assurance采购保障 The part after you find the factory: sample approval, first-article inspection, production checks, pre-shipment inspection, and the paperwork that lets a buyer act on a problem instead of arguing about it. Supplier discoveryVerificationFactory auditInspectionCoordination

02Under the three

One organization record, not three.

The most expensive mistake in this kind of platform is three business units each building their own company table. Then the same factory is three rows with three names, and no one can tell you which one was verified.

OrganizationOne row per legal entity, with its registration number and the role it plays.

LocationProvince, city, district. The unit a factory gate is actually found by.

AccountWho may edit which field, and on whose behalf.

LeadEvery enquiry, who answered it, and how long it took.

DocumentFiles with an uploader, a version and a visibility rule.

EvidenceWhat a claim rests on: subject, scope, source, date, reviewer.

VerificationThe audit trail behind a status badge, not the badge alone.

Audit logWho changed what, when. Including us.

03The core of it

A claim, and what it rests on.

Every profile in every engine carries one of four states. They are not a score out of four — they are four different sentences, and the difference between them is the whole product.

Supplier declared

The company or its public materials state the capability: equipment list, processes, materials, capacity, certificates.

Does not meanIt does not mean anyone checked. A brochure with a five-axis machine on the cover is a brochure.

Platform reviewed

We matched the legal entity, the business registration, the certificate numbers and the equipment documents against the issuer.

Does not meanIt does not mean the machine is in that building today, or that it holds tolerance on your part.

On-site verified

Someone stood on the floor: machines counted, processes walked, inspection equipment seen, quality records sampled.

Does not meanIt does not mean every future batch will pass. It is a statement about a day, not a warranty.

Order verified

Sample, first article, production run and pre-shipment check, each with a report tied to your order number.

Does not meanIt covers that order. It says nothing about the next one until the next one is inspected.

How a claim becomes a record →

04Build order

Four phases, in this order.

The failure mode we are avoiding is a platform with many pages and no closed loop. Each phase ends with something a customer can do, not something a roadmap can claim.

Phase 1Live

Keep the travel side honest

The six registers, the entry check and the trip planner stay as they are — they are the reason a buyer lands here at all. Work on this phase is maintenance: sources re-checked, prices re-read, gaps named.

Done whenA reader can find a place, check a rule and send an enquiry.

Phase 2In build

Manufacturer profiles and RFQ

Profiles built by us from public records and site visits, not by asking a workshop to run an English shop. Capability fields, evidence records, and a technical RFQ that a human matches.

Done whenA buyer sends a drawing and gets back a shortlist with the evidence behind each name.

Phase 3In build

Logistics roles and route evidence

Forwarders profiled by role, operating model and lane evidence. Quotes split into components so scope differences show up before the invoice does.

Done whenA buyer can compare two quotes and see which one is missing a leg.

Phase 4In design

Procurement assurance

Order-level evidence: samples, first articles, production checks, pre-shipment reports, and an exception process when the mode or the route changes without consent.

Done whenA project has a file that survives a dispute.

05Money

Who pays, and for what.

Listing is free. A workshop does not buy a shop, an English site or an advert to appear. If it had to, we would only ever list the ones with a marketing budget.
Verification is not for sale. A paid profile never moves up a level. What money buys is work: a visit, a report, a matched shortlist.
Paid relationships are marked. Where a supplier pays for a service, the profile says so, in the same place the status is shown.
No success fee on approvals. We are not paid on whether a permit is granted, because we cannot control that.
Quotes are quoted, not promised. Scoping is a fixed fee after the brief; site work is a day rate plus travel.

Start here

Tell us what you are buying or building, the volume, and the date you need it. One page is enough. If we cannot help, we will say so in the first reply instead of selling a phase you do not need.

Send the brief →

hello@chinatourslocal.com

06What we do not do

The list that makes the other list believable.

A booking engine

We do not sell the ticket, the container slot or the hotel room. We help you choose and then check what happened.

A laboratory

We do not test materials ourselves. We commission accredited labs and read the report.

A credit score

No algorithm decides whether a factory is good. A person signs a record with a date on it.

A payment escrow

Money movement, guarantees and liability need a licensed entity and a contract. Not this.

A walled garden

Suppliers do not have to buy a shop, an English website or an advert to be listed.

A promise of approval

A subsidy exists when it is in a published notice and you meet every condition in it. We quote the notice.

Lobbying

We have no influence over an approval and will not pretend to.

Every industry at once

Three categories in three cities first. A directory that covers everything verifies nothing.