Buyer questionAnswered from the China side
Supplier scorecard: keep performance and identity checks separate.
Your order history can show quality, delivery, cost and service. A new supplier may have little history with you. Check its legal identity separately, using dated records. Do not turn a missing record into a low score or an automatic pass.
SUPPLIER SCORECARD / 01
The scorecard is only as honest as its weakest row.
This page is about one row. It does not supply a template, and it does not score performance; only you have that data.
| Velocity measure | Result |
|---|---|
| Companies with at least one registered change | 264 of 264 (100%) |
| Amended within the last 12 months | 54.9% |
| Amended within the last 24 months | 78.4% |
| Median lifetime changes on record | 39 |
A scorecard freezes a moving record. Against this census — every company amended at least once, median 39 changes, 54.9% within twelve months. Record the date you scored, and re-read the official record before relying on the score again.
What that second reading cannot show. SubmittedOn and LastUpdated are the regulator's own fields, and vPIC does not document what triggers an update. Silence means no change the regulator recorded, and a record can sit unchanged because nothing changed. The frame is 111 Chinese trailer manufacturers, so it describes that list and no wider population.
Start with your order history
Choose measures that fit your orders. Four examples are:
Quality: defects and returns. Delivery: arrival against agreed dates. Cost: quoted versus billed amounts. Service: response time and resolution of problems.
These measures describe past orders. For a new supplier, label missing history clearly. A sample or trial order may add evidence, but it does not prove how a later batch will perform.
Keep company checks outside the weighted total
Company checks ask different questions: does the name match one legal entity, what status is recorded and who is being paid? They do not measure delivery or quality.
Use supplier documents to find the details to check. Compare them with a named source and note its date. A licence image or badge alone cannot resolve every identity question.
Keep the source and any unresolved gap beside the entry so a reviewer can see what supports it.
What belongs in that row for a Chinese supplier
Each item below resolves to a fact with a source and a query date, not to an impression:
Match the registered name and Unified Social Credit Code. An English name can help find candidates; it does not confirm legal identity. Read how the company registration check works.
Registration status is active. Struck off, revoked, or in liquidation are all states a website continues to look perfectly normal in.
Read the registered scope. Manufacturing wording is a clue, not proof that the company can make your product. Read scope wording in context.
Review listings and changes. For penalties, read the reason, date and outcome. For a name change, confirm the link to the entity on your documents.
Check the payee separately. Resolve a different name or new bank instruction before payment. Matching names alone do not prove account ownership. Read the beneficiary checks.
Record availability is not supplier performance
We queried a commercial platform for 45 manufacturers matched to Chinese entities on 21–22 August 2026. The table shows which record types returned data. Availability does not measure supplier performance or provide a basis for score weights.
| Candidate row | Returned a record | Use it as |
|---|---|---|
| Shareholders / annual reports | 44 of 45: 98% | Record the returned data; investigate gaps. |
| Registry snapshot (an image, not fields) | 44 of 45: 98% | Attach it as evidence; it cannot be scored. |
| Change history | 41 of 45: 91% | Read what changed and when. |
| Import/export credit record | 41 of 45: 91% | Check the exporter for your shipment. |
| Tender participation | 27 of 45: 60% | Context, not a quality measure. |
| Outbound investments | 18 of 45: 40% | Context for group structure only. |
| Branches | 8 of 45: 18% | Context; a blank leaves site questions open. |
| Operating anomalies / serious violations | 0 of 45: 0% | Record the source result; do not infer an all-clear. |
No anomaly or serious-violation records were returned. That describes this source on these dates. It does not prove that every company had no adverse record, and it should not award full marks.
Tender and investment records may help explain a company's activities. Their presence or absence does not measure whether it can make your product.
This is not a representative sample of Chinese suppliers. The snapshot row counts returned images, not checked status fields. A missing response needs follow-up, not a score. Read the sample and matching method.
Scoring it without inventing precision
Do not convert “could not be read” into a number. When a source is unreachable or a field is not returned, the honest entry is unknown. Scoring it zero punishes a supplier for our access problem; scoring it full marks manufactures a clean result out of nothing.
Distinguish “no record found” from “no record exists”. Commercial platforms republish official disclosures with a lag. A platform showing nothing on a query date is evidence about that platform on that date, and nothing stronger.
Date every entry. Keep the source date and your review date. Recheck when details change or before a larger commitment; historical changes do not set one expiry period for every record.
Resolve identity gaps separately. Do not let good delivery or price scores cancel an unresolved entity match. Record the question, who will check it and what evidence is needed.
What this desk does not provide
We supply dated records for your file. You decide how to use them alongside your own order history.
No scorecard template or software. We supply company records for your file.
No performance rating. We have no visibility of your defect rates, your delivery dates or your prices, and any number we attached to them would be fabricated.
No single supplier score. A composite number would hide the thing that matters, which item failed, and against which source on which date.
We verify records and report them with their source, retrieval date and limits. We do not certify that a supplier is safe, approved, or good to work with. Those are conclusions the record cannot support.
Filling the row for a supplier you are looking at now
Start with the supplier's registered Chinese name and code from its business licence. Use them to match the entity before requesting further records.
Check the supplier details you have
The free page explains its available query and document-check modes. It does not supply a supplier score. For a written record report, check the scope and theme packs in the menu.
PRIMARY SOURCES / 02
Official sources for this page
The disclosure rule was rechecked on 6 September 2026. Other links are background sources; consult the applicable text for your transaction.
- ISO 9001:2015, Quality management systems: RequirementsA quality-management standard. Consult the applicable requirements for your own purchasing process.
- State Council: Provisional Regulation on Enterprise Information Publicity (2024 revision)Article 8 sets the annual reporting duty. Article 9 distinguishes public information from financial fields the company may choose not to publish.
These sources give background on quality management and company disclosures. They do not validate the score weights in your supplier model.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Questions readers ask at this point
- Should identity checks be part of the weighted score?
- No. Keep them in a separate row with a source and a query date. A high performance total must never hide an unresolved entity or payee question.
- How should I score a record that could not be read?
- As unknown. Scoring it zero punishes the supplier for an access problem. Scoring it full marks manufactures a clean result.
- How fast does the registered record change?
- In the 264-company census every company had at least one registered change, and 54.9% amended something within twelve months. Date the row and re-read the record before reusing the score.
How we checked
Record ages come from the public vPIC manufacturer file, comparing each registration date with the query date. Fill rates come from running our report process on real companies and counting how many of the twelve dimensions returned data on the date stated. The most recent query date on this page is 6 September 2026. Where a table carries its own date, that date governs.
The official pages we read are listed on this page with the date each was accessed, so every figure can be re-checked at source.
Being pushed to pay a deposit right now? The checks that matter before money moves take about ten minutes and cost nothing.
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