Your own employee in China. Working only for you.
Origin claims and supply chain documentation are getting a much harder look right now. Our approach to it is simple: the file has to exist before anyone asks for it.
A full-time person in China who works only for you. Hired with you, trained properly, and in it alongside you. Every cost shown line by line. No commission, ever.
You're the one who has to prove it.
It used to be that the authorities had to show you'd done something wrong. Now you have to show you did something right — about a factory you've never stood in, in a country you don't live in, and you get a short clock to do it in.
That file can't be built after the letter arrives. Either someone was there collecting it, or nobody was.
Importer-of-record rules tightened in June. The forced-labour entity list keeps growing. EU rules land in 2027. On the call we'll tell you which of these actually touch what you make.
One person. All of it.
Not a checklist someone runs once a quarter. A full-time person, in China, whose job is your supply chain.
Follows the chain back Your direct factory is the easy part. The exposure usually sits a tier or two behind it — the mill, the component vendor, the sub-contractor nobody mentioned. Someone who can visit and ask is how that gets found.
Keeps your records Documentation organised the way an auditor wants to see it — kept while things are happening, not reconstructed months later when someone asks.
Verifies what the factory can actually do Production capacity, equipment, processes, inputs. Whether they can really make what they say they make, checked by someone standing in the building.
Talks to your suppliers properly In Chinese, face to face, with the people doing the work — not through a sales rep who isn't on the floor and has no reason to pass on bad news.
Checks the goods before they're yours Not a report after the fact, when your only options are accept it or lose the season.
Sees the delay coming Most missed shipments were visible three weeks earlier to anyone standing in the right place.
Moves your samples Collects them, carries them to the next factory, sits in the room while a mould is discussed. Development by courier is slow and expensive.
Finds you more suppliers One person in China can visit five factories in a week. From your desk, that's two months of emails and a trade show.
Changes what you're quoted Factories price differently for a buyer who is local, who can visit, and who knows what things cost here. Distance is priced in — you just never see the line item.
Gives you control You stop asking for updates and start having them. Someone is in the building, or can be tomorrow.
We don't work for you in China.We work with you.
Next to you, behind you. The same way we've never stood between a client and their factory, we don't stand between you and your own team.
We hire together You see every candidate. You decide. We tell you what we see, because we've been reading factory people here for a long time.
We train together Trained the right way — supplier due diligence, negotiation, contracts, checking work quality on the floor — shaped around your products and how you want things done.
And if it isn't working, we replace together No hiring drama, no severance fight, no starting over alone. You say the word, we handle the China side, and we do it beside you.
Same for building your base here. It's your office, your team, your operation. We're the ones standing next to you while you build it.
Every line. Shown to you.
Most agencies won't tell you what your employee is actually paid, because the gap is where they make their money. Here's a real invoice, at the entry salary level.
Three ways to do this.
$595 / month Your own full-time person in China. We hire them with you, train them the right way, insure them, contract them properly, and keep eyes on the work.
$895 / month Your own full-time person, working from one of our offices. Rent, desk, equipment, internet, utilities — carried in the price, not billed back to you later.
$1,595 / month Your own full-time person in one of our offices, backed by a Chinese law firm on retainer.
When your person finds a problem on the factory floor, you're not writing an email and hoping. A Chinese law firm is already on retainer for you, working under Chinese law — where the contract you signed is worth something and a letter on their paper gets a factory's attention.
Contracts. NNN agreements. A demand letter when a factory goes quiet. Someone who can walk into a court here if it ever comes to that.
This is the tier where you stop hoping and start holding the other side to something.
Where your person sits depends on your situation. We'll work that out on the call, and whatever it costs, you see it on your invoice at cost.
The money terms
Setup fee — from $1,800 One flat fee at the start. It covers advertising the role, the full hiring packet, assessing fit, and drafting the labour contract. More complex roles cost more, and we'll tell you the number before anything begins.
If you need office sourcing, extra legal drafts, or a representative office or Chinese company set up, we quote those separately — never bundled in without you seeing them.
You choose the salary level: 5,000–15,000 RMB. Higher level, more experience. You see the real number either way.
First invoice includes first month and last month — the last month covers the severance Chinese law requires. At each yearly re-signing, one more month is added, matching the one-month-per-year obligation.
Where your person works
We're in Guangzhou, Foshan, Shenzhen, Yiwu and Jinan — offices, staff, and people who can walk into a factory the same day.
Need someone in another Chinese city? We can employ anywhere in China. Ask us, and we'll tell you straight what we can and can't watch from a distance.
What people ask before they start.
You don't need a company in China. We're a Hong Kong company with our own registered presence in the Chinese hubs, and that's what legally employs the person and pays their salary and social contributions inside China. They work full-time for you. This arrangement is called an Employer of Record. You get the employee; we carry the legal employment, insurance, social payments and labour contract.
We're a Hong Kong company with our own registered presence in the Chinese hubs, and that's what legally pays salaries and social contributions inside China. It means you get a properly employed person — real labour contract, real insurance, real social payments — without registering your own company here.
It depends on the person. A university-educated, English-speaking employee with around two years' experience starts near ¥5,000 a month. Social insurance adds roughly 20–30% on top depending on the city, plus the housing fund. Individual costs move the total — how far someone travels, whether food is covered. Our service fee is separate and starts at $595 a month. At the entry level you're looking at about ¥7,350 a month all-in, roughly $1,098, and you see every line of it.
Whatever you need. We hire to your requirement, not to a fixed job description. Some clients hire a merchandiser, some a QC person, some a designer, some someone to source and manage suppliers. Tell us the job and we'll find the person and train them for it.
Yes. It's what makes your presence a real base rather than a freelancer working from home. A room where a factory can be received, samples can be held, and your person has somewhere to work changes how seriously you're taken. You can sit in one of our offices at $895 a month, or set up your own and we'll help — either way it goes on your invoice at cost.
Several things at once, and faster than most importers have tracked. Executive Order 14411, signed 3 June 2026, tightens who can serve as importer of record, adds ownership and beneficial-ownership disclosure requirements, introduces a "good standing" threshold for import privileges, and sets a minimum penalty floor with no mitigation for repeat offenders. CBP audit volume is climbing — 417 audits in FY2024, 465 in FY2025, and on pace for around 543 in FY2026. The UFLPA Entity List reached 187 entities after 43 companies were added on 3 August 2026, the largest single expansion since the law took effect. And in the EU, the Forced Labour Regulation applies from 14 December 2027, with authorities able to request supply chain evidence on 30 to 60 working day deadlines and no company-size threshold at all. (Accurate as of August 2026.)
No, and be careful with anyone who says otherwise. The legal duty of reasonable care stays with the importer of record. What a local employee changes is the quality of evidence you can produce — supply chain mapping, contemporaneous production records, dated photographic evidence, and documented supplier engagement. CBP decides on the strength of the evidence package. We help you have one worth submitting.
Usually not. A certificate you can't independently verify is a document, not evidence. Enforcement increasingly looks past the paperwork to production capacity, equipment, input sourcing and whether the transformation claimed was real or cosmetic. That means someone visiting, reviewing records at the factory, and following the input back a tier or two. It's the difference between what your supplier says and what you can show.
A sourcing agent works between you and the factory and usually earns a percentage of what you buy. We never do that. Your employee works for you, sits under your instructions, and we take no cut of anything you purchase. An agent's income goes up when your costs go up. Ours doesn't move.
We replace them. No hiring drama, no severance fight, no starting over alone. You say the word and we handle the China side. This is the part most people are quietly worried about when hiring someone they've never met in a country they've never worked in.
A setup fee from $1,800, plus a first invoice that includes the first month and the last month. The last month covers the severance Chinese law requires you to pay. At each yearly re-signing, one more month is added, matching the one-month-per-year obligation.