Interpreter and driver services

More and more foreigners come to visit Shenzhen, and they want to visit a few factories in one or two days because their schedule is very tight, some suppliers are always willing to pick you up at your hotel and drop you back, but some of them are not very willing to do that, even if they are willing to do that, you don’t want to take this kind of offer because:

1. You don’t want to feel like that owe them anything.

2. You want to be very efficient, you want to travel from one factory to another one. Usually you stay at the urban area, but most of the factories are located in the industrial areas. And you don’t easily find a taxi in the industrial areas. You will need a private Taxi to travel from one factory to another, but please make sure that these factories are not far from each other, the factories can be located in different industrial areas of Shenzhen, and they can be very far from each other. For example, you can visit Bao’An District in one day, visit LongGang District in another day.

How much does it cost to hire an interpreter and driver with a car together?

It is usually minimum 200USD per day, excluding gas, toll and packing.

However, I would like to offer you very good rates for the next 3 months (from March 1st to May 31th), I want to charge you only 150 USD per day for a limit of 8 hours (every extra hour is 15USD) and include 100 Kilometers (every extra kilometer would be 0.5USD), toll and packing fees are also included.

What information do you need to prepare for the driver?

It is better if you can make appointments with all the companies that you are going to visit, and also ask them to send you their addresses in Chinese and the contact persons’ cell phone numbers, if they can provide their addresses in Google Or Baidu maps link, it is even better.

How many companies in Shenzhen can you visit in one day?

Maximum 4. If these companies are located in the same district, it is possible to visit 4 companies in one day, assuming one hour visit for one company.

What type of car do we provide for you?

We usually drive a basic car which can be a Hongda Fit, Buick Excelle, Kia K2, if you need a fancy car, it is possible but you will need to pay extra.

How do you tell if it is a trading company or a manufacturer?

How many kinds of manufacturers are there in China?

 

When you are looking for a manufacturer on Alibaba, you are not sure if it is a trader or manufacturer even though they always prefer to claim that they are the manufacturer, but sometimes they are not, they can be just a trading company.

 

1. A trader who has partnership with a manufacturer.

A trading company that deals with electronis likes to focus on marketing and sales, as well as sourcing and quality control, but sometimes a trading company has only one source of their product, they have partnership with one factory, sometimes they are one of the shareholders of a factory, or they might develop one or two items and have them manufactured at a factory, in all these cases, they always claim that they own the factory.

2. An assembly house.

Some companies are actually an assembly house with a lot of focus on marketing and sales. This kind of companies have a very small assembly house with one or two production lines, but their focus is on marketing, sales as well as sourcing and quality control. In the electronics business such as cell phone or tablet PC, this kind of assembly factories arrange PCBA boards, plastic housing, LCD display and batteries, and hire a few workers to put them together and do some burn-in test. And They call themself a factory because they do have a couple production line and a few labors for assembly and QC.

3. Genuine manufacturer.

This kind of companies start from purchasing the raw materials, and they have their own R&D team, they own some heave machines such as SMT machines, injection mold machine, and etc. Usually their producing capability is very big, they can produce hundreds of cell phone or tablet in just one hour.

 

I am sure that you all want to deal directly with the genuine manufacturer, however, if your volume is not big enough, most of the manufacturers will not deal with you, you might need to deal with their distributors, sometimes it is better to deal with an assembly house or even a trading company.