A Chinese container terminal at the moment of export: stacked containers running to the horizon, gantry cranes over a moored ship, and palletised machinery waiting on the apron.

Sourcing agent · Qing

Every factory in China.
One agent doing the asking.

China Export holds a verified graph of Chinese manufacturers and runs the sourcing conversation for you — shortlist, outreach on the channel each supplier actually answers, structured quotes out of messy replies, and a negotiation that stays inside the mandate you set.

Post your first RFQ Explore the supplier graph

48 h: RFQ to ranked quotes
12×: suppliers reached per RFQ
100%: messages audit-logged

A network operations room seen from behind an empty desk: the backs of a bank of monitors and their cable looms, and beyond a glass wall a long aisle of cabinets in the hall below.

Live replay · one RFQ, end to end

RFQ-24081·dough sheeter · 500 units

agent running

suppliers reached

quotes normalized

human decisions

The three bad options

Sourcing from China is mechanical work that nobody has automated.

Forty identical stainless steel couplings laid in a tight grid, with one lifted out of line and standing on end.

40+

replies to triage

Marketplace roulette

Post an RFQ, get forty near-identical replies from trading companies presenting themselves as factories. Two weeks vanish separating them.

One small desk with a telephone and a stack of folders standing alone in the middle of a vast empty warehouse hall, a single person seated at it from behind.

3–10%

of order value

A human sourcing agent

Three to ten percent of order value for one person’s Rolodex, opaque incentives, no audit trail, and a hard ceiling of a few live RFQs at once.

A two-metre heap of hundreds of mismatched parcels wrapped in kraft paper, film and tape, piled without order against a pale wall.

structured records

DIY on WeChat

How trade in China actually happens — and completely unmanageable. Prices buried in voice notes and screenshots across hundreds of chats.

The work underneath all three is identical: identify candidates, reach them where they answer, ask the same twelve questions, chase the silent ones, turn inconsistent replies into comparable numbers, hold pressure on price and lead time. That is agent-shaped work.

What moves

Cooling, power, racks, optics, storage — the whole room, sourced from the people who build it.

A warehouse floor seen from above, filled with blocks of palletised goods of every kind — crates, cartons, cable coils, drums and cabinets — staged in lanes with a loading dock along the far wall.

A press brake pressing a long steel rack side panel into a vee die, with a finished rack frame beside it and trolleys of formed panels down the shop.

A rack-height coolant distribution unit with its front panel removed, showing two vertical circulating pumps, a brazed-plate heat exchanger, a cartridge filter housing and braided hoses.

Looking up at overhead busway with tap-off boxes, a mesh cable ladder, a fibre raceway and sprinkler heads running the length of a data hall.

Macro view of a skived copper cold plate showing hundreds of fine parallel fins and two brass ports on the cover plate.

A finned copper coil block on a roller conveyor with its hairpin bends showing, another entering a tube-expansion press, and completed blocks racked down the aisle.

Three modular UPS cabinets with plain doors open showing columns of hot-swap power modules, facing a row of plain grey battery cabinets across a narrow aisle.

Looking down on a data-centre roof deck with four rows of V-bank dry coolers, their axial fans on top and insulated pipework between them, the industrial park receding into haze beyond.

An empty 4U server chassis with its cover lifted off, showing a full-width wall of fan modules, empty power-supply bays and air baffles, with two finned copper-heat-pipe heatsinks on the bench beside it.

Macro view of a fanned bundle of duplex fibre patch cords with their polished ceramic ferrules facing the camera.

A plain forty-foot containerised data-centre module in an assembly hall with its side door open, showing a brightly lit aisle between two rows of installed cabinets.

Generated imagery — illustrative of the category, not a photograph of any supplier, facility or product on this platform.

How Qing works

Six stages, run in parallel across every supplier on the shortlist.

A ground steel plug gauge entering a freshly reamed bore in a machined aluminium block, cutting oil catching the light on the lead-in chamfer.

Understand理解需求

A requirement in any language becomes a structured spec: HS code, tolerances, certifications, voltage, packaging, target landed cost.

An overhead view of forty near-identical factory sheds on a grid of service roads, one of them standing in an empty yard.

Shortlist筛选供应商

Query the supplier graph by real capability, not by who paid for placement. Filter on verification: licence, customs registration, AEO rating, certifications, litigation.

Twelve plain grey loading-dock roller shutters along a dispatch hall wall, each raised to a different height with daylight beneath and a wrapped pallet waiting at each.

Reach多渠道触达

Open conversations in parallel over WeCom, Official Account, marketplace inboxes and email — whichever channel each supplier actually answers. Always disclosed as an AI agent.

An inspection table with a tipped wire tote spilling loose brass fittings on the left and the same fittings stood in ranks in a compartmented tray on the right.

Extract结构化报价

Voice notes, WeChat screenshots, Excel fragments and half-sentences become normalized quotes: currency, Incoterm, MOQ tiers, price breaks, lead time, all comparable.

An empty factory meeting room with two identical machined components set facing each other across a long table, chairs pushed in, the plant floor visible through glass.

Negotiate议价

Inside a mandate you set — target band, walk-away, priorities. Qing never commits you to anything; purchase decisions stay with a human.

One plain shipping container alone on an inspection apron with both doors open, its brightly lit interior showing neatly stacked shrink-wrapped pallets, a ramp at the sill and an empty inspection table beside it.

Clear合规筛查

Both sides screened against sanctions and export-control lists before an introduction is made. Every message retained for audit.

The supplier graph

One record per company, keyed on the number the Chinese state uses.

Supplier lists get copied. What does not get copied is resolution: the same factory appearing under six names across six sources, collapsed into one record keyed on its 统一社会信用代码 — the Unified Social Credit Code — and carrying provenance on every single field.

Capability, not catalogue
What a factory can actually make, inferred from export records, certifications and equipment — not from the keywords it bought.
Verification tiers
Business licence, customs registration, AEO credit rating, ISO/CE/UL certificates, litigation and enforcement records.
Reachability
Which channel this supplier answers on, and how fast — measured, not assumed.
Provenance on every field
Source, timestamp and licence for each value. A dataset we cannot explain is one we cannot sell.

An elevated view over thousands of identical pale workshop roofs in a regular grid running to the horizon, cut by tree-lined avenues and a canal.

Record · sampleUSCC 91440101MA5D···

广州德工机械设备有限公司

Guangzhou Degong Machinery Equipment Co., Ltd.

An industrial district in Guangzhou, the region this supplier record is registered in.

Regional context for Guangzhou. Generated imagery — not a photograph of this company or its premises.

Founded

2011

Employees

120–200

Customs reg.

Yes · AEO GC

Export markets

Reply median

2 h 40 m

Quotes on file

318

CEISO 9001Food machineryOEMFOB Guangzhou

Screened · no sanctions or export-control hits · 8 Sep 2026

Price intelligence

Every quote we ever collect becomes a market price surface.

The compounding asset is not the supplier list — it is the quote history. What each factory actually quoted, for what spec, at what volume, how fast it replied, and whether it held the price. Nobody has this, because nobody has ever structured it.

Set a target on any SKU and Qing keeps watching: re-quoting on a schedule, flagging moves beyond your threshold, and telling you when the supplier who was cheapest last quarter no longer is.

Rows of stacked containers running away into haze at a terminal, with gantry cranes on the far quay and a straddle carrier moving down an empty lane.

Live index · FOB China30-day change

Dough sheeter 520 mm HS 8438.10	$1 698	−4.2%
Brushless DC motor 750 W HS 8501.31	$41.20	+1.8%
PET preform 28 mm HS 3923.30	$0.043	−0.9%
Li-ion cell 21700 5 Ah HS 8507.60	$3.86	+6.1%
Nitrile glove, box 100 HS 4015.19	$2.94	−2.3%