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title: "\"15 Years Experience\" — Registered Two Months Ago | China Agent Case File"
description: "A client was days from a seven-figure order. The \"15-year factory\" was a two-month-old trading company with zero employees and a licence that didn't match the registry."
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 Case File #15 · Due Diligence · Seven-Figure Save

# "Fifteen Years Experience." **Registered Two Months Ago.**

## How can you tell if a Chinese supplier really has the experience and factory they claim?

Pull the government registration record and read three fields: the date of establishment, the insured employee count, and the registered capital. A company claiming fifteen years of manufacturing that was registered last year is not a factory with history. A company claiming a large plant that reports zero insured employees has no workforce. And when the business license the supplier hands you shows different capital than the public record, stop — the paper and the registry are telling you two different stories, and only one of them is the truth.

That's the short answer. Here's the case it comes from.

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A client was days from placing a seven-figure order. He'd done the calls, seen the photos, and been told what everyone gets told: fifteen years in the business, a large factory, plenty of export experience.

He asked us to run a check first. Routine, in his mind. A box to tick before the wire.

## What the record actually said

The company had been registered for **just over two months.**

Not fifteen years. Not five. Two months. And it wasn't registered as a manufacturer — the business scope read as a trading company. There was no factory behind it because there had never been time to build one.

Then the annual report: **zero insured employees.** No staff on the books at all. A company claiming a large production operation had not a single person registered as employed.

## The discrepancy that ended it

The business license the supplier had sent the client showed registered capital of RMB 1,000,000.

The public government record showed RMB 100,000.

A factor of ten, between the document in the client's inbox and the record in the national registry. There are innocent explanations for a gap like that — a recent capital increase not yet reflected, a data-entry error. There's also the explanation nobody wants: the license had been altered before it was sent.

We didn't guess which. We told the client exactly what to demand — the official registration certificate, direct from the government system, confirming the real figure. A genuine company produces that in an afternoon.

## The verdict

Red. Do not proceed, do not wire, and don't resolve it over WeChat. Get the official record, an explanation for the zero headcount, proof of paid-in capital, and bank details that match the registered entity name — before any money moves.

Seven figures, stopped at the last minute.

## The lesson

1. **"Years of experience" is a sentence, not a fact.** The date of establishment is a fact, and it takes minutes to look up. Anyone claiming a decade of history has a registration date that either supports it or destroys it.
2. **Zero insured employees means no workforce.** Not a small workforce — none on record. A company describing a large plant while reporting no staff is describing something that doesn't exist.
3. **When the license and the registry disagree, believe the registry.** The supplier controls what document reaches your inbox. He doesn't control the government database. That asymmetry is the whole value of checking.
4. **The size of the order is exactly why the check matters.** Nobody runs due diligence on a $3,000 sample order. Seven figures is when the cost of being wrong stops being survivable — and it's precisely when a two-month-old trading company most wants to be mistaken for a fifteen-year factory.

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