Two languages, one standard of evidence
Cross-border work stalls for boring reasons — the record is in Chinese, the counterparty is a continent away, and nobody neutral is looking at it. We close that gap and hand back something written that you can show to someone else.
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Anna Zheng
- Bachelor of Economics (China)
- Juris Doctor (Australia)
- Australian legal practitioner
- English · 中文 (Mandarin)
Anna read economics in China and then took a Juris Doctor in Australia, where she was admitted as a legal practitioner. Her professional work has centred on cross-border commercial contracts and dispute resolution — advising international clients across technology, manufacturing and trade on the agreements that hold a deal together and on what happens when one of them fails.
That is an unusual background for this work, and it is the reason Yimi exists in the shape it does. Disputes are where you find out which assumptions were never checked: the counterparty who turned out to be a different legal entity from the one on the invoice, the specification that said something different in each language, the bank account that never belonged to the company at all. Almost all of it was preventable, cheaply, months earlier — by someone who could read the Chinese record and was willing to write down what it actually said.
So the firm was built around that preventive half. Yimi verifies before money moves, documents things properly the first time, and says plainly what could not be established. The training shows up in the deliverables rather than in the sales pitch: findings are graded by how strongly the evidence supports them, sources are named, and nothing is asserted because it would sound better.
An important boundary
Yimi is a business consultancy, not a law firm. Anna does not act as your lawyer, and nothing we produce is legal advice. Her legal training is why our reports are careful about evidence and wording — it is not a service we sell.
Yimi holds a Chinese business-consulting licence, not a law-firm licence. Where your matter needs a PRC-qualified lawyer, a licensed accounting firm or a CNIPA-registered trademark agency, we say so and introduce one — you contract with them directly. The complete list of what we don’t do.
We are registered inside the industrial belt, not in a tower above it
Almost every English-language China consultancy sits in Shanghai, Shenzhen or Hong Kong. Those are good places to read a balance sheet. They are a long way from a factory floor.
Wenzhou Yimi Information Consulting Co., Ltd. is registered in Wenzhou, Zhejiang — in the middle of one of China’s densest private manufacturing regions. Within roughly two hours: the low-voltage electrical cluster at Yueqing, auto and motorcycle parts at Ruian, pumps and valves at Yongjia, footwear and apparel in Lucheng, eyewear and locks in Ouhai. Yiwu, the largest small-commodities market in the world, is about two and a half hours away, and so is the port at Ningbo.
That proximity is not a marketing line, it is the operating model. When a client needs a factory walked, it is a drive rather than a project. When a fair finishes, following up at the plant the following week is realistic. And the video that comes back is footage of a real place, filmed by someone who was standing in it.
We work nationwide — registries, notary offices and government service halls are dealt with wherever the matter sits. But the manufacturing work is on our doorstep, and that is where the difference is.
What we actually are
Wenzhou Yimi Information Consulting Co., Ltd. is a Chinese business-consulting company working in English and Mandarin. We serve two directions of the same trade: international companies buying from, or selling into, China; and Chinese companies trying to reach buyers abroad. The work divides into verification and sourcing, trade compliance, market entry and corporate, cross-border documents, and digital presence.
What we are not is a broker. We do not take a margin on your goods, a commission from a supplier, or a finder’s fee from a provider we introduce. That is structural rather than moral: a consultancy paid by both sides cannot give either of them an honest recommendation.
How an engagement runs
- 01Scope
A 45-minute call. You describe the situation; we tell you what is possible, what is not, and what it costs. You get a written scope and a fixed fee before anything starts.
- 02Execute
We do the work in Mandarin — registry, factory floor, counter, counterparty — and keep you updated in writing at agreed checkpoints. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices.
- 03Deliver
You receive a written deliverable you can act on and show to others: a report, a document set, a live site, a filing record. Sources cited, dates stated, assumptions visible.
What we hold ourselves to
We stay inside our licence
We are a business consultancy — not a law firm, accounting firm, trademark agency or recruitment agency — and we provide no visa, permit or immigration assistance of any kind, in any country. Where a matter needs a licensed professional, we say so and introduce one rather than blurring the line.
Nothing is fabricated
We do not draft a false document, inflate a claim, or describe a trading company as a factory. If a report says we saw a production line, someone stood on it. If a figure is uncertain, the report says so instead of smoothing it over.
Paid by one side only
Our fee comes from the client, never from a supplier, distributor, provider or platform we introduce. If a referral fee is ever offered, we disclose it in writing before you decide anything.
Written, sourced, dated
Every deliverable is something you can act on and show to someone else. Rules are cited to the regulation they come from, with the date we last checked. When a rule changes, the page changes.
The corporate details
The contracting entity is Wenzhou Yimi Information Consulting Co., Ltd. (温州易米信息咨询有限公司), a limited liability company registered in the People’s Republic of China under Unified Social Credit Code 91330302MAKLC8FT2R. You can and should check that record yourself — we publish exactly how to do it, using the same registry we tell clients to use on any Chinese supplier.
All fees are quoted in US dollars. If you prefer to settle in RMB, we convert at the RMB central parity rate published by the China Foreign Exchange Trade System under the authority of the People’s Bank of China on the invoice date.
Not sure which engagement fits?
Book a 45-minute consult. We map your situation to the right process, tell you honestly what is and is not possible, and give you a fixed fee. No obligation.
