Request only evidence you can review and connect to a decision. A large folder of unrelated certificates can hide the missing fact: who will manufacture and receive payment for your order.
Identity pack
- Current Chinese business license
- Chinese legal name and unified social credit code
- Registered and operating addresses
- Ownership or relationship explanation for exporter, factory, and payment entity
- Authorized contract signer
- Verified bank-beneficiary document
Compare these items with official records, quotations, contracts, invoices, certificate holders, and the operating site.
Capability pack
- Product process flow
- Relevant equipment and tooling list
- Monthly-capacity calculation and current loading
- Outsourced process list and controls
- Comparable-product examples with confidential data removed
- Sample and production lead-time assumptions
Quality pack
- Inspection plan and completed recent records
- Calibration status for relevant equipment
- Nonconformance and corrective-action example
- Material and finished-product traceability example
- Approved-sample and revision control
- Product-specific test evidence
Commercial pack
- Controlled quotation with assumptions and deviations
- Purchase-order or contract review record
- Tooling ownership and maintenance terms
- Change-notification process
- Inspection, reinspection, payment, and shipment-release rules
Evidence should be recent, internally consistent, and relevant to the exact product and site. Use the supplier evaluation checklist to score what was verified and keep unresolved issues visible.