About
About Peter Zhang
Peter Zhang works from Foshan, inside the furniture and building-materials belt — close enough to stand in the factory when a decision has to be made.
The factories I work with sit within driving distance of my base in Guangdong, so a first visit, a sample check or a re-check can be arranged in the week it is needed rather than weeks later. That proximity is the whole point: most sourcing problems are decided on the factory floor, not in an email thread.
Who I am
My clients are importers, fit-out contractors and brand owners who buy from China but are not on the floor when the goods are made. I stand in the factory for them, read the drawing in both languages and stop a problem while it is still cheap to correct. The work is deliberately narrow: furniture, building materials and lighting, plus the inspection and consolidation that carry an order to the port.
A shortlist is built by visiting plants, not by reading catalogues. On a first visit I look at the line, the tooling and the people running it, and I look at how the site feeds and houses its workforce, because what a factory canteen reveals about capacity is a signal that rarely reaches a company profile. A plant that cannot support the workforce it claims is not producing at the rate it advertises.
How I work
Every order follows the same four steps, from shortlist to sealed container. The sequence does not change, so nothing depends on who remembered to ask.
Factory screening
Candidates are visited and compared on equipment, tooling, workforce and the work they already export. A factory is only proposed when it has run the product type before; a plant that would be learning on your order is not a saving, it is a risk carried by you.
Bilingual specification
Your drawing and specification are translated into the production language the line actually works from, then written into the PO in English and Chinese before any deposit. An NDA can be signed before drawings are shared, so the specification stays with the factories that are quoting it.
Milestone QC
Checks run at the gates that matter for the product: first article, in-process, pre-shipment and, where the goods must provably be the shipped goods, container loading. What a first article inspection catches is usually the cheapest gate in the whole order, because it happens before the line commits. Who actually pays for inspection is settled before an inspector is booked, so there is no argument at the factory gate.
Documentation and consolidation
Export documents, marks and the shipping file are prepared per order, and orders that span factories are consolidated in Foshan and loaded once. Where you want to verify cost, the factory's original PI is made available rather than a repackaged quote.
What I do not do
Three boundaries keep the service honest.
- I do not issue certifications. Supplier marks and test reports are checked against the model actually shipped; the certificate itself is the supplier's, never mine.
- I do not run a pure price-comparison service. A quote without a specification is not comparable, and the factory's original PI is shared so you can check the cost yourself.
- I do not take an order with no specification. Without a drawing, a sample or a written standard there is nothing to inspect against, and that risk lands on the buyer.
By the numbers
- 30+ factories visited on site
- 6+ renovation product categories sourced
- 15+ export-ready partner factories
- 10+ target markets served
FAQ
Who do you work with?
Importers, fit-out contractors and brand owners who buy from China, mostly for the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia and the United Kingdom. Other markets served on request.
Can you sign an NDA before I share drawings?
Yes. An NDA can be signed before drawings are shared, so a specification only reaches the factories that are quoting the order.
How do you charge?
Fees are 8% of PO value on the first order and 7% on repeat orders, quoted in writing before you commit, with no minimum on the service fee. Anything outside that scope is quoted per project before work starts.
If the factory pays your fee, how are you still on my side?
Only one side pays on any order — buyer-side or supplier-side, never both, and the model is named in writing before you commit. Where the factory pays, your unit price is the factory’s own export price and the original PI is shared, so the fee cannot be buried in it. Inspection findings reach you first, with dated photo and video evidence, and a failed check is reported the same way whoever pays.
Who do I sign with, and where does my payment go?
Either you sign directly with the factory and pay the factory, or the order runs through the affiliated licensed trading company named in the service agreement, which settles back to the factories. The company name, business licence and export registration are included with the quotation and can be checked before any payment.