Filming coordination
Permission requests, restricted-zone agreements, equipment declaration and filming windows built into the itinerary.
- Available now (P1)
- Written permission before you fly
- Substitute location held for refusals
On-site support
On-site support in China, from the moment you land.
Most of what goes wrong on a China trip happens in the first six hours and has nothing to do with factories: the wrong hotel district, no working payment method, a driver who has never heard of the industrial zone.
For creators and brand buyers who already have dates — add only the pieces you need.
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Available now
One module you can book today.
This is the only piece of on-site support we are running properly right now. The rest are listed below as planned, because listing them as available would be a promise we cannot keep.
The permission mechanics are spelled out in the filming guide.
Planned
Being prepared. Not bookable yet.
These are the other pieces clients ask for. We are honest about the state of each one rather than dressing it up as live — ask us and we will tell you where it stands.
Interpreting & technical translation
Not conversation Mandarin. Someone who can carry tolerances, tooling terms and payment conditions both ways without softening them.
Transport & arrival logistics
Airport or station pick-up, movement between industrial zones, and a hotel placed near the factories you are actually visiting.
Itinerary control
Sequencing, buffer for the things that always slip, and rebuilding the day when something does.
Visa invitation letters
Currently handled case by case while we formalise the process. We will tell you honestly whether your case is straightforward.
After-hours troubleshooting
A reachable number for the evening problems: lost equipment, pharmacy runs, a restaurant that only takes a payment app you do not have.
The interpreting role in particular has its own page — see the interpreter.
A day on the ground
08:30 to 18:00, with the boring parts included.
This is what a normal working day looks like. The unglamorous rows are where trips usually fail.
- 01
08:30 — Pick-up
DAY-AMDriver meets you at the hotel. We use the same drivers repeatedly in a cluster because industrial-park addresses are poorly served by map apps.
- 02
10:00 — Factory A
DAY-AMWalk-through with the production manager. Interpreter handles tolerances and tooling specifics rather than pleasantries.
- 03
12:30 — Working lunch
DAY-MIDNear the industrial zone, not across town. Used to review the morning and adjust the afternoon order.
- 04
14:00 — Factory B
DAY-PMSecond visit, or the substitute factory if the morning one fell through. Usually the deeper technical conversation.
- 05
17:00 — Same-day notes
DAY-PMWritten notes sent while it is fresh, so nothing depends on remembering it three days later.
- 06
18:00 — Debrief
DAY-PMThirty minutes on what we saw, what we distrust, and what the next day should do differently.
The floor part follows the on-the-floor checklist.
Coverage
Tier 1 we run daily. Tier 2 we staff. Tier 3 needs notice.
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- Home base — Zhejiang / Yangtze Delta
- Resident team — Pearl River Delta
- Reachable — Shandong, Hebei, Jiangsu
Tier 1 · home base
- Hangzhou (HQ)
- Yiwu
- Ningbo
- Shaoxing
- Jinhua
Tier 2 · resident team
- Shenzhen
- Dongguan
- Guangzhou
- Foshan
- Zhongshan
Tier 3 · reachable
- Qingdao
- Nanjing
- Shijiazhuang
- Xiamen
- Chengdu
Diagram noteThis is a schematic coverage diagram, deliberately not a geographic map. Node order follows the real west-to-east and north-to-south arrangement of each cluster; exact placement carries no coordinate meaning.
The tiers map to the destination pages, region by region.
What we don't do
What on-site support is not
We are hosting ground support, not a concierge service and not a substitute for your own judgement.
- We do not book your flights or hotels, and we take no margin on them.
- We do not offer leisure sightseeing programmes — if a client wants a free day, we plan the transport and leave the day alone.
- We do not carry cash advances or handle your payments to suppliers.
- We are not a licensed tour operator for packaged tourism, and we do not present ourselves as one.
- We will not sign anything on your behalf, ever.
This support sits under a brand sourcing visit or a creator trip.
Before you book: how we verify a factory
Every factory we take you into has been through the five checks. Here they are, step by step, along with the signals that make us walk away.