Verification of a Chinese company

How the verification of a Chinese company should look like? What kind of information can be obtained through this process? Is it really an essential step, or can the whole process be skipped? We will answer these and similar questions below.

Usually, the whole process begins when we’ve finally find a suitable Chinese company. Many depend on when we made the first successful contact: if we simply received an e-mail offer, risk factor is higher than in the case in which we met our supplier during trade shows.

The most important thing that we will find out through verification process, is the type of a company and its scope of activities. Chinese companies, which are dealing in international trade, usually fall into two categories: these are either trade companies or manufacturing companies. Sometimes the former impersonates the latter, but a proper verification process will help to reveal the real identity of the company.

In many cases, the person who claims to represent the Chinese company has no legal title to do so. Therefore it is always necessary to find out, who is the legal representative of the company. As we say:chinese company credit.

Verification is helpful in revealing the physical address of the factory. It is important, if we want to proceed further and send someone to check our shipment. On the other hand, ISO 9001 certificate is awarded to a particular facility, not to the company as a whole. Companies which possess factories cannot be simply shut down overnight – it may happen though to some of the trading companies, especially after receiving our payment.

Through verification process, the authenticity of provided documents and certificates will be also checked. The rule is simple: the Chinese are able to forge everything, but the truth can usually be easily revealed.

If you want to know more about the most popular methods of fraud, documents necessary in the import process and during the custom clearance, please refer to our other guides.

 

The benefits of the electric scooter for adults

As an adult, an electric scooter for adults might not appeal to you at first glance, mainly because you associate scooters with a time in your life when you were carefree and life was a big adventure that was playful and fun all the time. However, you should note that a scooter calibrated for an adult may very well be the best thing since sliced bread for you, especially if you are working in a big city that is always teeming with traffic and heavily crowded places. The following are some of the benefits that should convince you to buy an adult electric scooter :

    Convenience in making your daily commute

One of the biggest advantages that the electric scooter is going to give you is the advantage of arriving at your work place in style, without being sweaty or angry, as most of your work colleagues are probably going to be. Cycling to work is bound to make you sweaty and all heated up, and this might mess up your productivity, especially in the morning. If you decide to drive to work, you will have to deal with the prospect of getting embroiled in a nasty morning traffic jam. You will probably come out of the traffic jam very angry and frustrated; a mood that does not bode well for those who are most productive in the morning.

    The chance to be eco friendly

By using an electric scooter instead of any other fuel driven machine, you will be able to get the convenience of using a machine to ease your work while not contributing to the pollution of the atmosphere. In other words, you will be getting what you wanted while reducing your carbon footprint, thus effectively killing two birds with one stone.

    Cost effectiveness

The fact that this electric scooter does not use fuel means that you will be able to cut back on a lot of money that would have gone towards buying fuel for driving your car or for bus fare if you decide to use public transport. This is money that can then be funneled into other purposes. Guess what? This electric scooter for adults is available on wheelster.com, the most reputable online shop to get cheap electric unicycles. 

 

Reports in China: Progress or Greenwashing?

"Corporate Social Responsibility" Reports in China: Progress or Greenwashing?

Over the past decade, an increasing number of Chinese companies have begun to produce corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports. Whether that’s led to more sustainable business practices is an open question.

In 2006, State Grid was the only company in China to file a CSR report. In 2012, 1,722 Chinese companies filed CSR reports, according to a study by Syntao, a sustainability consultant. Indeed, almost a quarter of large state-owned enterprises in China filed CSR reports last year.

In theory, the purpose of CSR reports is to share information about a business’s social and environmental impact with the public. Ideally, the publication of such china credit report leads to enhanced awareness, better monitoring practices, and action to curb detrimental occurrences.

Yet while some Chinese companies have received international recognition for enhanced CSR reporting, it’s not clear the trend has translated broadly into more socially and environmentally sound policies. As Chris Marquis, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, and Yang Chen, an associate professor at Shanghai Maritime University, wrote on Dec. 5 in the online magazine Chinadialogue, “some of the same companies that were lauded for their reporting work were not necessarily following through with more responsible actions in the rest of their enterprises.”

Marquis and Yang pointed to several examples, including Baogang Group, a steel company in Inner Mongolia. The company “claims to have invested tens of millions of dollars a year in environmental protection and waste processing, and has also been recognised for its CSR and sustainability activities,” the researchers write. However, earlier this year pollution from Baogang’s facilities near the village of Dalahai was linked to “unusually high rates of cancer, along with high rates of osteoporosis and skin and respiratory diseases, and the radiation levels are ten times higher than in the surrounding countryside.” Obviously, not a sign of its commitment to principle.

At the very least, some Chinese authorities appear to have embraced the concept of corporate responsibility. In November, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released a blue book, or official report, on the state of CSR in China, which recommended improved reporting guidelines. Currently, the Shenzhen Stock Exchange offers training on data collection and corporate reporting methods. That makes smart business sense, as unsustainable practices may prove a future liability to growth. Even smog-choked China is looking for ways to clean up.

 

Practical guide on how to verify chinese company?

Thanks to ecommerce, companies in US are able to sell products/service to China, a country you have not yet visited, you don’t speak the language, you are not aware if the legal systems are similar, you don’t know and don’t have the resource to know if the counterpart Chinese companies are real.

So we face a question: How can I check Chinese company? How to check the legitimacy of your Chinese buyers/partners? Are they a real company.

Some facts:

China don’t have a organization like BBB(Better Business Bureau) in US, where you could check the legitimacy and background of a Chinese company.

Chinese administration of industry and commerce is the governing body that in charge of company registration. However, they don’t have a nationwide website or database system that open to public to inquiry the authentication of Chinese companies.

Sourcing China blog recently published an excellent article, sharing how to verify Chinese company without visiting their premise. Here are some tips on their blog,just for chinese authentication:

1) Do they have company bank account

Only legally incorporated companies can have business bank account. If the Chinese company insist you to pay their personal account only, be cautious.

2) Visit local AIC websites

Even though the national AIC don’t have a nationwide system allow you to check the legitimacy of Chinese company. However, some(not a lot) local AIC do allow you to use their websites to check the legitimacy of Chinese company.

3) Websites and Email

If they don’t have websites, use public email account like 163, sohu, sina, it is negative.

4) Hongkong offshore company

Be cautions doing business with Hongkong company, but operates only in mainland China. They are shell company. Read this article to learn the risk.

 

Need a scooter?

If you are looking for a good commuting option within a campus, then 2 wheel electric standing scooter that runs on battery is the way to go. The educational or residential campuses and institutes are always well maintained, and therefore it becomes a problem when everybody begins to use vehicles within these; especially if, the vehicle causes a lot of pollution and eats up road space.

Self balancing scooters that are battery operated in that way are much better. These are sleek looking, trendy and take very less space on the roads and needs little space for parking. The self balancing scooters provided by Free Feet Technology Co. Ltd., are known for their unique designs and superior quality. These self balancing scooters are loved by one and all for their user friendliness and amazing features. These are lightweight scooters can be used anywhere and everywhere. If you are looking for vehicles that take less amount of space, are easy to carry and allows you to be close to the nature then these self balancing scooters manufactured by Free Feet Technology Co. Ltd., are the best grade electric scooters you can opt for in China.

Electric scooter is now in rage; all nature friendly people are now switching from the conventional bicycles to these self balancing scooters. Since, these are considered as the best electric scooters in terms of space consumption, eco friendliness, trend and ease of use for people belonging to all ages.

You can take these self balancing scooter wherever you go and do not have to worry about commuting. With the invention in technology you no longer have to ask people around you to reach a particular place during tours and travels. If you are going out on a long drive, or if you want to go visit some place in the outskirts of the city then carry these self balancing scooters with you in your luggage or in the trunk of your car, this way you will not have to worry about taking a cab or other means of transports and paying them extra for sightseeing. All you will need is a GPS in your phone and yourself balancing scooter.

Xinli is the leading manufacturer of segway style scooter. Visit website: escooterchina.

 

'Fairness' irrelevant yardstick

ZANU PF welcomed the report of SADC’s election observer mission released on Monday, and immediately called on Western countries to accept President Robert Mugabe’s landslide victory.The Southern African Community (SADC) observer mission, which presented the summary of its findings in Harare, endorsed Mugabe's victory, stating that "there were so many elements that, when put together, elevated the election to a credible status".

“SADC had not pronounced itself on the all too important question of the credibility of the election. But today, SADC has spoken clearly and loudly that indeed the elections were credible,” Zanu PF politburo member Professor Jonathan Moyo said in Harare.“The whole world now waits to see what the Anglo-Saxons are going to do, whether they themselves are going to be credible. Their credibility will be judged by their standing by their word, they said they would be guided by SADC.”

Western countries, led by the United States and Britain, have raised concerns with the conduct of the elections and indicated they would wait for the African Union and SADC’s final reports before passing judgement.While offering criticism for the lack of access to the public media by Zanu PF’s rivals and delays in releasing the roll of voters, SADC said it was difficult to judge whether the elections had been “fair”.

The observer mission also said sanctions on Zimbabwe had been a factor in the elections, along with so called pirate radio stations broadcasting into Zimbabwe from Europe and the United States.Moyo said the key question in the July 30 elections was whether Zimbabwe could hold a peaceful election, following the violence that marred the presidential election run-off in 2008 – from which emerged a power sharing government between Mugabe and his main opposition rival, Morgan Tsvangirai.

“We must bear in mind that these elections were judged and evaluated against the backdrop of 2008 elections, with particular reference to their peacefulness. The issue of having peaceful elections was paramount, and it is not surprising therefore that fairness has been replaced with peacefulness, and we have passed this score with indoor Tracking.

“On the question of fairness, there can be no right-thinking person who imagines or expects elections in Zimbabwe to be fair, or fairness to be an important category, tool or yardstick for judging elections when the country has been under the grip of illegal sanctions for the last 12 years, and whose main purpose has been to replace elections as a method of changing government in Zimbabwe.”

Moyo said the sanctions had been used by Western countries to “destroy the economy, ‘make it scream’ – in their words – in order to turn the people against Zanu PF outside the electoral process”.

“The import of the sanctions was to manufacture suffering, attribute it to Zanu PF and expect a change of government through a public revolt, and not through elections. The economic sanctions were not designed to get people to vote Zanu PF out through elections, but to get them out on the streets. When you do that, you bastardise the electoral process, it becomes impossible to have fair elections. Fairness becomes a contradiction in terms, an irrelevant yardstick.”
Elections in Zimbabwe, he said, “will never be fair if sanctions remain in place”.

He explained: “We are very heartened to note that SADC, in their report, have called the unconditional and full removal of sanctions. They have said it would be foolhardy for any political party in Zimbabwe to expect to win elections when that party has called for sanctions or is the intended beneficiary of those sanctions.

“It was, therefore, a demonstration of astute diplomacy and commitment to principle by SADC to replace the irrelevant term of fairness with peacefulness. The question of peacefulness was more relevant to Zimbabwe than the question of fairness.

“There was no fairness before, during and after the elections. The fairness question is intertwined with sanctions, and it’s not in our hands but those of our erstwhile colonisers and their allies who have not left us alone. It’s a question which they should now deal with honestly in order to normalise relations and create conditions for fair elections in future.”

On Thursday, in anticipation of Labor Day weekend, thousands of workers at 1,000 fast food restaurants in 60 cities walked out on strike to protest their low wages, erratic schedules, lack of job security, miserable working conditions, and lack of benefits. The movement began last November in one city – New York.  The idea has since spread. The protest is the largest mass action of fast food employees in history. If they reflect the nation’s McWorkforce, many of them were Black and Latino.  Their average age will be roughly 28.  Many have children to house, clothes and feed, which is impossible on the minimum wages they are paid.  They are demanding a living wage of $15 an hour and the right to unionize without employer resistance or retaliation.

The Service Employees International Union, which has provided support for the fast food workers’ campaign, thinks America may be ready for an upsurge of activism not only among low-wage workers but also among middle-class employees who are sinking quickly, many with the additional burden of underwater homes. 

What radicals once called the “objective conditions” seem ripe for such a mass protest movement.  In a new report, A Decade of Flat Wages, economists  Lawrence Mishel and Heidi Shierholz observe that "the vast majority of U.S. workers -- including white-collar and blue-collar workers and those with and without a college degree -- have endured more than a decade of wage stagnation." 

Union activists know that American workers are filled with discontent.  But sustained protest requires not only that people think that things should be different but also that they can be different.  And that requires hope. If the fast food workers’ campaign captures the public’s imagination – and more importantly,  wins some stepping-stone improvements at work --  it could help restore that missing ingredient, and perhaps contribute to launching a new wave of workplace activism.

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Viokyt Packaging Achieves Growth

During a period of great economic challenge, the privately-owned Viokyt has exercised a careful balancing act between tight fiscal management and investment in major capital equipment to ensure maintaining its position as a leader in the corrugated market. In the past five years the company expanded into high-quality flexo post-print, added new coating units on its corrugator as well as recently installing the HP Scitex FB7600 Industrial Press and a digital cutter.

"Even though the economy was presenting real problems, our customers still needed packaging to deliver their goods, and we needed to deliver the packaging they required," said Theodore Daskalopolous, managing director, Viokyt Packaging SA. "The company president, Jossif Matarasso, attended an open day at HP in Sant Cugat and saw a demonstration of the HP Scitex FB7600 Industrial Press and thought it would be the press to address our short-run requirements."

Within a few months, an order was placed, and working through HP reseller Graphcom, in Athens, the press was installed and was being used for packaging, POP/POS and large special displays for retail outlets. With the ability to produce up to 500m2/ hr (5380 ft2/hr) or 95 full-size sheets/hr(1) with ? automation, the HP Scitex FB7600 Industrial Press can print on flexible and rigid sheets from 130g/m2 to 25mm thick.

Among its broad client base, Viokyt carries out packaging work for the Greek agricultural sector as well as for large retail enterprises and supermarkets.

"For exporting companies, like the wine and olive oil producers, the variable data capabilities of the FB7600 press enables cost-effective printing of languages as well as giving us the ability to print barcodes and tracking information," continued Daskalopolous. "This is work that would have been impossible to do otherwise.

"The FB7600 press was our first digital press and we are pleased with its ability to handle the growing short-run jobs which are otherwise prohibitively expensive."

Violyt's HP Scitex FB7600 Industrial Press is equipped with the optional Multi-sheet loader Kit that enables the production of four-sheets from 700 x 1000mm up to 775 x 1650mm(2) simultaneously.

"As well as watching costs, we are also watching our impact on the environment," said Daskalopolous. "Both for us and for our customers we made environmental features part of our equipment selection criteria as well as productivity."

HP FB225Scitex Inks used by the HP Scitex FB7600 Industrial Press are GREENGUARD Children & Schools CertifiedSM, colour inks meet AgBB criteria(3) and have reduced odour(4) that enable indoor applications. This enables products printed with the press to be used in area where solvent or UV-curable ink-printed materials could not be.

"We now have the digital capacity to handle the wide range of short-run jobs effectively and efficiently for our customers," concluded Dskalopolous. "The HP Scitex FB7600 Industrial Press gives us the quality and production flexibility to meet today's markets."

Following the widespread growth of smartphones and other portable connected devices in recent years, there has been a huge growth of mobile data consumption. One of the key issues for MNO's has been to address this increasing data traffic demand with sufficient capacity at Hands free access. Due to limited spectrum availability and increasing rates of data consumption, the user experience is often somewhat sacrificed.

One of the solutions to the rising wireless broadband capacity crunch is through deploying heterogeneous networks (Hetnets) comprising of macro cells and a range of small cell solutions namely microcells, picocells, carrier Wi-Fi and femtocells.

Small cells are being widely deployed by mobile operators the world over. 2G/3G small cells have already been used widely by operators for quite some time now, for the purposes of boosting network capacity in urban areas, provide wider coverage in rural areas, and furthermore to extend services into large public areas such as train stations, airports and shopping malls. More recently, with the widespread rollout of 4G LTE technologies there has been a renewed vigour in the deployment of 4G small cells in the form of public space femto cells and mini eNode base stations, in order to keep up with the increasing capacity and backhaul requirements for ubiquitous access to mobile broadband at 4G speeds.

Visiongain predicts growth in the small cells market, particularly in the 4G small cell types. The market is poised for vendors and solution providers as there is a huge uptake both from the consumer market, enterprise sector and the mobile operators, driven by limited spectrum and capacity constraints. The overall small cells market is growing and will continue to do so over the forecast period 2013-2018. As a consequence, visiongain has determined that the value of the global small cells market in 2013 will reach.

"Es ist eine so extreme Situation zur Zeit, dass ich das Gefühl habe, dass ich nicht atmen kann", erkl?rte Sylvie van der Vaart in dem gefühlvollen Interview. Mehrmals muss Sylvie tief einatmen, wahrscheinlich um nicht immer wieder in Tr?nen auszubrechen. "Es wird immer schwieriger, Leuten zu vertrauen", sagte sie und gab zu, dass sie in der Vergangenheit wohl den falschen Leuten ihr Vertrauen geschenkt hat.

"Für mich ist es wichtig, dass Damian sich an die neue Lebenssituation gew?hnt, dass er glücklich ist. In seinem Interesse will ich, dass wieder Ruhe einkehrt", erz?hlte Sylvie. Sie und Rafael van der Vaart (30) werden sich das Sorgerecht für ihren Sohn in Zukunft teilen. So bleibt es sicherlich nicht aus, dass sie und Sabia Boulahrouz hin und wieder aufeinandertreffen werden.

Im Interview f?llt auf, dass Frauke Ludowig weder den Namen von Sabia Boulahrouz, noch den des Ex-Freundes Guillaume Zarka (33) nennt – wahrscheinlich konnte Sylvie van der Vaart ihre eigene Situation so objektiver betrachten. "Manchmal sitze ich zu Hause und weine", gestand sie. Die momentane Zeit ist offensichtlich nicht leicht für die Moderatorin. "Mein Bruder und meine Eltern sind für mich da – am Ende ist es die Familie, die z?hlt." Aber ihren Sohn wolle sie damit nicht belasten, erkl?rte Sylvie van der Vaart.

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