101 China Business Ideas

• Offer advisory services to overseas businesses planning to enter into the China market.
• Introduce overseas products into China market
• How to start business in China? How to find partners? What are the survival tips?
• www.sinostep.com , my consulting business offering China market entry strategy and Chinese marketing services.

• Helping Chinese companies go global.
• Overseas company setup and business advice.

• Competition situation analysis
• investment opportunities and feasibility study

• Handle international acquisition, land purchase, property purchase etc.

• Provide Expert Review On Chinese Website/Apps

• Help overseas companies to protect IP issues in China.
• apply for patents, trademarks in China.
• Find suitable buyers to sell patents and other copyrights.

• More profitable than overseas study.
• Helping HNW Chinese on overseas immigration.
• providing advice on overseas property, education, tax, health management too.

• A traditional but good business.
• Chinese people are keen on property investment.
• Top destinations: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and some European countries.
• Work with overseas real estate agents, organize overseas property tours.

• Forex is tightly controlled and regulated in China but with a bright future.
• Overseas mainstream forex brokers are working with Chinese local agents to open accounts for Chinese local traders.

• In this dynamic economy, You will not lack good chances to find potential businesses.

• ​A simple fact: Most Chinese students can not speak or write good English, even after more than 10 years in English learning.
• Chao Magic English School offers online course on effective English learning method, consultation and coaching services.  (Chao Magic English: Best Way to Teach English Online in China )
• Lastest years, the emerging online English teaching schools have educated the market to accept online English teaching.
• Oral English Practices are the major strength of this business.
• More creative models have been developed through WeChat, website, groups, communities, and online courses etc.
• Most foreign startups underestimate the investment and difficulties on the localization and marketing efforts in the market entry phase.

• Offer online mandarin courses to Mandarin learners from around the world.
• Provide online Mandarins tutoring services
• Provide Mandarin learning strategies and practical training techniques

• Build your web store and sell overseas products to Chinese consumers.
• China has the most advanced technology that favors online businesses and trading platforms.
• Source your products from overseas, find out what Chinese consumers love and when they will buy from your website.

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• Build your own web store and sell to China customers directly.
• You don't need to pay high cost platform fees for big local ecommerce players.
• You need to find your own way of Chinese digital marketing to get the traffic of potential buyers.

Start From Designing A Website

Ten Steps to Build Your Successful Website for the China Market

Step 1. Register Your Domain Name
Step 2. Set Up Your Email Server
Step 3. Where to Put Your Website: Web Hosting
Step 4. Easy to Build: CMS and Shopping Cart
Step 5. Get A Great Web Design
Step 6. Make Your Web Content Attractive
Step 7. Define Your Functions and Develop Them
Step 8. Test Your Website
Step 9. Chinese Localization Check
Step 10. Track, Analyze, and Optimize

• Open your global stores on different global ecommerce platforms: Amazon, eBay, Wish, Aliexpress etc.
• Sell your products worldwide, you can focus on target countries to do precise marketing.
• Polish your skills on product selection, marketing, store optimization & management.

• Build independent global official web store.
• Build your brand awareness.
• Find a small niche market to chisel in.
• Only provide boutique products.

• You can sell directly based on your existing web store.
• You don't need to build a new web store, but you really need to change a lot and make it adapt to the China market.
• The key is the right localization, not only about language, but also logistics, payment and operations.

• Localize your app into Chinese and promote it in the China market
• The localization of App is much easier than web stores.
• You need relevant licenses for many China local platforms.
• Learn Chinese digital marketing and you will find huge potential in China.

• Global marketplace needs a lot of money to start.
• However, there are plenty of opportunities in niche markets.
• High conversions come from precise traffic of target customers.

• Find local talents for foreign owned companies
• or Find international talents for China companies.
• Provide salary research, legal consulting, procedure guidance and practical operations.
• Offer services of Resume selection, language check, interviews, and background check.

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• Work for big Chinese companies to write world-class copies.
• Manage a team of good foreign copywriters.
• Very few Chinese local companies can provide high quality copies in English or other foreign languages.

• Help overseas companies to handle local company formation 
• Help with all the procedures on taxes, government documents, local licenses, business registration, etc.
• Assist you with local bank account setup.

• Help overseas companies to find suitable location and rent the office.
• The choice shall be determined by the convenience of employees and customers, the price and the quality of the office.

• Solve problems for expats and new immigrants.
• Help overseas companies to relocate new employees.
• Provide support on housing, education, language, etc.

• Over 1/3 international students in USA are coming from China.
• Overseas study is an increasing trend for Chinese students.
• Esp. for schools in USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
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• Targeting on Chinese universities, professors and academic researchers who publish in English magazines and research publications.

• Err, I do not want to explain.

• Organize summer camps or winter camps to overseas schools.
• USA and UK top schools are hot choices.
• Dedicated tours for arts are popular too, the topic can be ballet, violin, piano, etc, and target countries can be Russia, Germany, France, Poland, USA, UK, etc.

• China’s travel and tourism market takes off.
• More and more Chinese tourists go overseas.
• Personalized travel itinerary design is welcome by many young travelers.

• People are traveling to China. 
• Organize overseas companies, clubs, organization, and school group tours to China.
• Design some unique itineraries that different from common packages in travel agencies.

• Promote your hotel in China to get more bookings from China.
• More and more destination hotels are putting efforts in regular marketing to Chinese tourists.
• Localized website with Chinese customer services and support Chinese booking is a plus.

• Through proper marketing in China, you can get more Chinese consumers to visit your attraction as well as your stores.
• Build a dedicated website and be involved in Chinese digital marketing is an economic but very effective way.

• For dedicated entertainment, you can promote through interests groups or communities.
• Cooperate with peers of the same nature in different places.
• climbing, diving, fishing, surfing, parachuting are all good projects.

• More high end hotels needs to be built up, esp in 1st, and 2nd tier cities.
• The population and the number of regular business travelers are the guarantee of hotel bookings.

• More and more Chinese are seeking overseas help in medical treatments, beauty, IVF, etc.
• USA for high end medical treatments,
• Japan and Germany for cost effective high end medical treatments.
• Other choices are Switzerland, Thailand, Korea, Israel etc.

• Amusement parks like Disney got huge success in China, opportunities are open for more theme parks.

• China is still lack of high end medical equipments.
• There is market for many overseas SEMs who has unique products and resources.

• Heavy investment with high return. 

• Could be in written format , or through video consultation with top doctors and physicians.

• China needs awesome products for aging market.
• The local market is transiting to aging society quickly.

• Fish oils, and many more.
• Price in the local market is much higher than overseas market.

• Anything good to sell?
• The pollution issue in many China major cities are serious.
• There are not many choices for anti-pollution products.
• Earlier there are "compressed fresh air" from Canada, Switzerland, New Zealand and South Africa coming to me for help to sell in China. I'm not sure whether this is a joke.

• Sell cost-effective brands, or with great designs.
• There are already some big overseas brands in China that sell well.

• China is not rich in the diversity of beers. Bring them in.
• China has a huge population of beer drinkers.
• Many people have the rigid impressions on the taste of beers.

• Price in China domestic market is very high.
• There are factory numbers limited for market entry.

• Wine sales managers in China are making a lot of money. How about the bosses?

• Take some market research and bring interesting food products into China. Most of them will sell well.

• Tree nuts market is booming.
• Nuts are healthy food and Chinese love them.

• High-end furnitures need high quality timbers produced overseas.

• A market of high profits

• The pet industry is still very young in China with a very promising market.

• The most common products Chinese women will buy.
• Every day, millions of facial masks had been bought from overseas travel, ecommerce websites.

• Every good product sell well here,
• even the fake ones.

• Jewelry consumption has been increasing steadily in the past few year in China.

• Tailor made high end wedding dress

• Tailor made high end Clothes

• Dig for facts, and solve problems

• Help clients to find suitable factories to produce desired products.
• negotiate with factories on product design, production, time frame, price, packaging and shipment.

• Find profitable products in China and sell on global marketplace, particularly Amazon and eBay.
• You can hire a sourcing agent or do it yourself.

• Establish your offline/online distribution channels in your country.
• You need a very good China sourcing agent.

• It can be a standalone service.
• help clients to ensure the quality during the production or before the shipment.

• Timely arrangement with best resources.
• cost effective and reliable.

• Training expats living in China

• Offer after-school private language tutoring services.
• Focus on listening and speaking, or focus on tests

• Offer after-school private art tutoring services: painting, music, dance, etc.

• Offer after-school private sports tutoring services: artistic roller skating, soccer, fencing, etc.

• It’s popular in China and parents are willing to pay.

• Open mandarin school for expats.

• Provide home teacher for Chinese tutoring.
• Most students are kids from the expat families.

• Introduce advanced solar energy to China.

• You have plenty of projects.

• Very promising business in the next 20 years.

• The huge market with low level technology needs improvements in the coming future.

• People needs clean water, the polluted water is still a big problem nowadays in China.

• Promote overseas business online in China.
• Draft Chinese digital marketing strategy for the business.

• Help China merchants to do business in the world.

• Help China merchants to launch professional email campaigns
• Draft the global email marketing strategy
• Design the email template, set up the list, set up the leads generation form.

• WeChat Marketing is so important that it can be a standalone startup idea.
• Manage public accounts, writing marketing articles, design H5 pages...

• China app marketing is confusing for newbies and it’s your opportunity.

• Instead of translating ready English content, you should rewrite articles for the China market.
• Hire dedicated Chinese writers for this job.

• Short-videos are increasingly popular in online marketing.
• Knowledge and experience on short videos helps you win more business opportunities.

• Well designed cartoons, Avatars, Mascots, Emojis can be Verial in digital marketing.
• Design unique services on these niche markets will win you big share of the future market.

• Paid traffic is fast to get and can bring quick results.
• But it's not easy to do the job well.
• A good PPC expert needs to understand the business, design the best landing page, optimize the list of long tail keywords, do the A/B testings all the time, and get the best traffic that can convert. 

• Offering effective industrial machine translation services will help merchants get better conversions and higher income.
• accurate human translation needs a lot of money, but poor quality machine translation force buyers to abandon the shopping cart.

• To win huge population of Chinese game players.

• Hire Chinese local coders and work on international projects。
• Dedicated people working on their expertise: negotiation, project management, coding, testing, etc.
• Win bigger orders.

• The booming entertainment market made almost every imported film a great success.

• The Gym, Health and Fitness Clubs industry in China has been developing rapidly in recent years.
• Many successful overseas models could be transplanted into China.

• Provide unique style, wedding pictures services.
• Overseas wedding photography tours are popular too.

• Losing weight in a healthy way. 
• Scientific theory, reliable supply of the healthy ingredients are the guarantee of the success.

• Most high end artwork are done by overseas architects.
• A lot of work has been subcontracted to small firms or freelancers.

• There are a huge number of potential clients.
• With the combination of high end design concept with local implementation, some brilliant ideas could be possible.

• Hire Chinese local web designers and work on international projects.

• Professional UE designers are very few in the market.
• With the cross-border marketing and cultural knowledge, you will be very competitive in the market.

• Many photographers and ecommerce websites need to outsource their photo editing jobs.
• You can raise a team of photo editors and they could be quite busy when there are some stable clients.

• A great customer service expert is a senior sales manager, indeed.
• Sort out all the feedback from customers and compile them to be a complete Q&A database.

• You can be hired to manage a seminar, a party, a meeting.
• Many companies might need some project managers to help them cover all the details of the event.

• A direct way to monetize your knowledge is to coach other people.
• Some of my previous clients had hired business coaches for selling, market entry strategy, and global marketing.
• I am now offering this too.

• Find what are unique in yourself.
• You can find your uniqueness more easily when it's crossing borders.
• A German guy married a Chinese girl writes a lot about his life in China, and becomes the cultural ambassador between Germany and China.
• Find hot topics that most of your target audience care the most and you can monetize them anyway.

• Develop your own courses and sell them online.
• It's painful to prepare the course because it takes a lot of your time. But you only need a little time to maintain it when it's done.
• You can scale up your business quickly without increasing significant costs.

• Basically, You can get most of your jobs done in China with a top-notch China Virtual Assistant.
• Form a VA team itself might be a good business idea.