Checking a Shenzhen Supplier's Chinese Company Name and Business Licence

Before committing to a Shenzhen supplier order, establish which Mainland legal entity is offering the work. Ask for its exact Chinese registered name and Unified Social Credit Code, then compare independently retrieved public information with the documents for your proposed transaction. A brand name, booth sign or English company name is not enough to identify the record you need.

Checked on 6 November 2026, this guide covers the document and public-record task before a hardware order. The manufacturing guide covers factory visits, prototypes, inspections and production controls. No particular supplier, account, contract or payment was verified here.

Access limitation: the national GSXT site displayed an environment-checking page during this review, before any company search. The search route below is supported by official guidance; it is not a claim that a live lookup or real-name account was tested successfully. Record an inaccessible check as unresolved.

Ask for the identifiers before searching

Request a current, legible business licence (营业执照) and these details as copyable text:

• Chinese registered name — 企业名称;
• Unified Social Credit Code — 统一社会信用代码;
• the entity named on the quotation and proposed contract;
• the proposed payment recipient’s name; and
• the claimed production site and the role of any separate trading, manufacturing or exporting company.

Keep the original Chinese text alongside any translation. Searching a transliterated brand or a shortened English name can lead to the wrong business or no useful result. This guide concerns the Mainland entity: if the documents concern a different jurisdiction, first clarify which entity would actually contract with you.

An original request you can send is:

Please provide the current business licence, exact Chinese registered name and Unified Social Credit Code of the entity that will sign our order. Please also identify the quotation issuer, payment recipient and production company, and explain any differences.

请提供本订单签约主体的现行营业执照、完整中文企业名称和统一社会信用代码。也请说明报价主体、收款主体和生产企业；如不一致，请说明各方关系和职责。

This is a starting request, not a universal contract or document list for every transaction.

Use the official public-record route

The National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System is 国家企业信用信息公示系统, often called GSXT. A government service guide links that exact address and describes basic, administrative-permission, penalty, abnormal-operation, serious-violation and announcement information after registration/login.

SAMR’s search guidance gives company name, Unified Social Credit Code or registration number as identifiers. Its particular notice concerns the reputation-information section after real-name login, so do not infer that every field is available anonymously or that every foreign visitor can complete the account process.

A practical sequence is:

1. Open the official site yourself, using the identifier copied from the licence.
2. Follow the service’s current access instructions. Confirm account eligibility through the official service if it is unclear.
3. Select the matching entity rather than a similar search result.
4. Compare the available registration information and the source/date of other records.
5. Save a dated note of what you actually checked and what remains unavailable.

SAMR’s separate registration service portal publicly links an electronic business-licence verification service (验证执照). Use the official portal as an entry point if checking an electronic licence; an image or a QR code supplied in a sales chat is not a completed independent verification. The verification transaction itself was not tested for this guide.

Compare the identity fields, not just the company name

Article 8 of the published Market Entity Registration Regulations lists general registration matters including name, entity type, business scope, domicile, registered capital/contribution and the legal representative or responsible person. The same regulations distinguish establishment, change and deregistration, so an old licence image should not be treated as a complete current history.

Use this comparison sheet with the information actually available:

Field or document	Check	Question a match does not answer
Chinese name and credit code	Match the licence, public record and contracting entity	Is the salesperson authorised to commit that entity?
Entity type	Record the type and any branch relationship shown	Which entity undertakes the actual delivery obligation?
Registered domicile/address	Compare the record with the licence and quotation	Is this the production site you intend to inspect?
Business scope, 经营范围	Read the wording and ask about its relation to the proposed work	Can this supplier perform your process to your specification?
Legal representative/responsible person	Keep the recorded identity and clarify the sales contact’s role	Does a message from a similar name establish authority?
Registered capital/contribution	Note what the record actually labels the figure	How much cash, equipment or capacity is available for this order?
Proposed payment recipient	Compare its exact name with the order documents	What documented role explains a different recipient?

The final questions require evidence beyond a registration match. A listed scope or capital figure is not a product inspection, a capacity test or proof of a bank balance. A showroom address should not replace checking the actual production location.

Read the record’s source and year

The 2024 Enterprise Information Publicity Regulations distinguish information published by government departments from information disclosed by the enterprise itself. They provide for annual reports about the preceding year, with the company and government separately responsible for the information they publish.

An annual-report entry should therefore retain its reporting year and source in your notes. Article 9 makes certain financial and staffing information optional for public disclosure. An unavailable turnover, asset or employee figure is not automatically evidence of concealment, and an enterprise’s reported figure should not be presented as independently audited just because it appears on a government platform.

Use an evidence log with separate columns for public record, supplier statement and still to verify. That prevents a sales claim about factory size from becoming a supposed registry finding in your purchasing memo.

What about an abnormal-operation or penalty entry?

The official query guidance identifies these as separate information categories. Read the actual reason, date, authority and any later decision rather than converting a heading into a simple “safe” or “scam” label.

The 2024 regulations include failures to publish required annual or other information among grounds for an abnormal-operation listing (经营异常名录) and provide for correction/credit repair. That is why the current detail and history matter. A supplier’s explanation is something to corroborate; a later correction also does not prove that a particular order will succeed.

For a material concern, obtain advice appropriate to the transaction before increasing your commitment. This article does not issue a legal or credit verdict on any business.

If the names differ or the search fails

Do not force the available evidence into a match. First check the copied Chinese spelling/code, whether the licence is current, and whether you are searching the same jurisdiction and entity.

If a brand, quotation issuer, contracting company, factory and payment recipient differ, ask for a written explanation of who does what and who is responsible to you. Keep that explanation with the relevant documents and verify the claimed relationship independently where it matters. A group-company explanation or English translation alone does not establish the arrangement.

If the portal remains unavailable, record the date, official URL and the access problem. Ask the official service or a qualified local adviser how to obtain the relevant public information. A screenshot supplied by the seller is useful material to compare, but it does not turn an unperformed independent check into a completed one.

Turn the check into a purchasing decision

A useful short record contains:

• the Chinese name/code and the entity you intend to contract with;
• the licence/document version and lookup date;
• matched fields and specific discrepancies;
• public-record source/year, separate from supplier statements;
• questions still requiring a response; and
• the next evidence needed, such as a site visit, technical sample or applicable certificate check.

The hardware manufacturing guide covers the next stage of capability and quality verification. For a market visit in 华强北, the Huaqiangbei guide helps identify the actual seller and record the purchase. Keep consistent supplier and value documents in your hardware sample and customs file.