There is so many bags supplier from China, many people who want to custom bags will be lost that how to choose them, how to know if the bags manufacturers who are talking about is reliable or not. Now let us setup a guide for your reference.

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China Bag Manufacturer Characteristic

Process to select your reliable manufacturer

How we could find a Chinese Bag Manufacturer?

China Bag Manufacturer Characteristic

You could source dozen thousands of custom bags manufacturers on the net,  Each manufacturers has their own features, however, we could Classify manufacturers by it’s located region. As the same region have the same price and quality of raw material and the similar skill. According to area features we could classify them in four main regions. Let us have a check as below,

Guangdong Pearl River Delta

Many businessman may know Guangzhou canon fair very well and that is the most famous business fair in China. Guangdong Pearl River Delta is located in here, Delta means Guangzhou city, Dong Guan city, ShenZhen city. Each city has a big wholesale market sells material and accessories for making bags,  Shiling market is for Guangzhou, Fuming material market is for Dongguan, Pinghu market is for Shenzhen.

And as the weather and climate is very comfortable to live, these three cities are attracted many workers come from North of Guangdong and stay here long, therefore this area keep many skillful experienced workers and most advanced factories, many global luxury brands make bags in this block, if you would like make delicate and good quality bags, choose your supplier in these area. But as the labor cost is more and more higher in recent years, the price is not the bottom cheapest here,  if you are sourcing cheap and simple shopping bag or non woven bag,  this region is not a good area.

Yiwu and Cangnan

Yiwu is famous in the world for wholesale small commodities. Thousands and hundreds of family workshop is scattered around the Yiwu international Trade Center. If you just would like buy small amount simple bags, you could find that is a cool place. The major problem is that the quality of this regions is not stable, as it is all made by small family workshop nearby, even you buy from the same shop or supplier,  you could also find the difference each time, and quality may be worse or better, that is depend on your luck.

Cangnan, which are also located in Zhejiang province, this city is famous in China for its very cheap simple shopping bag with kinds of printing. If you would like buy non-woven shopping bag or canvas shopping bag, you could go ahead to select supplier here.  

This region is famous as its cheap price, but they are not good at manufacturing complicated bags.

BaiGou Town

Baigou town is located in HeBei province, which is near Beijing Capital. This city is famous in china for its small commodity too. Manufacturer of this area is more focus on doing in domestic trade rather than oversea business. People here are also not good at making complex bags here, and factories here are very small, many of them are family workshop too. If the workers could be improved regularly, this place will be catch on guangdong Peal Dental. This area is famous by its cheap price in China domestic. But the same shortcut of it is the same as Yiwu, its quality is unstable, as most manufacturer is tiny workshop , who are not suitable to do big quantity business. If you just look at the price, and not strict with quality,  this place is not bad one.

Quanzhou City

Quanzhou is in the south east of China, it’s a long history famous port since Middle Ages. Nowadays, it is the largest underground wholesale market for fake sports shoes and backpacks in China, It is said that half of the world’s fake sports shoes are made here. As most of its business is illegal, you could only find supplier at night time there, if you would like to buy fake famous sport bags, maybe you could try in this area.

Process to select your reliable manufacturer

1. Plan your budget and what variety of bags you would like

As above we refer to features of region of the supplier, you have to plan which kind of bags and what quality you would like your bags to be. Shopping bag or non woven bag , we suggested you go to YiWU and Cangnan, also simple construction bags in not strict quality, could be bought in Yiwu cool cheap place. But you would like good quality leather bags or lunch insulated bags, the best is to select at shenzhen, guangzhou, dongguan cities. If you are a Amzaon, ebay, aliexpress, Wish, Joom, Cdiscout, Lazada such kind retailer, we suggested you should choose these three cities,  that will save you a lot time to do custom after sale service.

And you should plan your budget before make the research, this must plan shipping fee too. As you are doing oversea business, oversea shipping takes time and cost money too. how is your budget will be spent on the bags you would like. Then you could choose the region of the manufacturer hub of regions. This will save you a lot time to filter out a lot unsuitable vendors.

2. Take your research by making a list of manufacturer

To compare to choose most reliable manufacturer , you need to make a form of manufacturers, we suggested better amount is 8-12 companies in your list, Below factors is what you should consider to compare with.

Company is entity or cheater

We need do business with a real company, each company in China need have a business license which is showed that is legal business entity.  More Register capital the company registered, the larger the company is , but this is not represent this company is suitable for you. Large company often have high MOQ requirement. What you need do is find a suitable and reliable one. Therefore, just check their licence is legal is ok for this step.

What is the manufacturer good at making

Many factories lives in each block we refereed to, but each factory have their good at making kind bags. We need to figure out if that one is good at what we need to purchase. You could go to its website to have a check what the best selling items on their website, if you advise sales what you need make , do not believe what they tell they could make it, ask them to take video or photos of what they have in their sample showroom to have a check first. You could check samples stitching and its details, if that could meet your eyes.

If the manufacturer could do OEM or ODM products for you

 If you are reading this article, we think most of you are going or planing to custom bags with your own logo, you should check with the sales if they could do logo for your products and tell them which way you would like, The best confirm way is advise them the photo or video to check if they could make it. About the logo making methods, you could go and check my another article what is the way to make logo on bags.

Look over reviews of the company

Nowadays, many company will left review windows for the cooperated customers to leave their comment for each time business.  You could go to their website to have a check all the reviews to find out what is their comments. It is natural that there will be positive reviews and negative reviews of each company, as no one or no company is 100% perfect. The key point is to consider the negative aspect is affective to your business or not and make sure there just a little part of all reviews. Obviously, you could not cooperate with the company who have too much negative comments. In addition, you should check how the company respond to the negative review.

Check What Is The Manufacturer Quality Control System

Quality control is very important to each time business. No one would like to get products in a bad quality which takes long time and cost you a lot. When you are researching these candidate companies, you should check if the manufacturer have strict quality control system and how they do the quality control. The strict quality control need do quality examination at each step, raw material inspection, cutting material inspection, semi product inspection, completed products inspection and package inspection these five steps. You could also ask a quality inspector to do inspection before you pay the balance and do the shipping. That often cost about US$120 one time,  If that is not in your budget, you also could ask the sales to video the product completed details to send to you to have a check. You also could ask them to take video when they are doing bulk productions.

Identify Potential Candidate Companies

After doing the reaching form as above, you should identify 2-3 potential candidate companies to work with, the final we need do is verify the company. The following tips are for you to accomplish the final .

• Look thought the company website to know what the company show us.
• Make a sample to do trial business with it, to check its qualities and service attitude.
• Organize a video call with the sales to check their professional of this company.
• Organize a visit to the factory for inspection.

Where we could find a Chinese Bag Manufacturer?

We already told how we could indeitify a reliable bag manufacturer. Maybe part of readers will ask how they could find a Chinese Bag Manufacturer, They often source the manufacturer from India, Vietnam or other countries , but not china. There are three basic ways as below.

From Net

You could put your keywords to google and search it, you could find out lots of data there ,  google is powerful, you could also add limit source condition on its advance settings. Nowadays social media is not a bad choice to source too. You also could source from Youtube.

Bags Exhibition

The famous exhibition in China is Canton Fair(china import and export fair), which is  held three times per year in Guangzhou. This is the most representative trade fair in China. You could find lots of bags factory there. Nowadays, as the covid-9 virus, it is changed to be live online show.

Trade trip

If you have enough budget, you could come to china and go to China bag manufacturer hubs to visit factory by yourself,  you could find out lots of suppliers on your trip.

According to China Sourcing agent

If you are not pleased to what you find out on the internet and could not take trip to china, you could employ a sourcing agent. As sourcing agent could help you to do sourcing and find the most reliable vendors.  You just need make sure you share all your detail request to the agent, ask him or her to do this details for you. Of course, you have to go through the detail data which agent offer you.

Final Conclusion

Bags manufacturing industry in China is long history but variety rapidly, The way to find out a reliable manufacturer of bags for your business is not a mathematical formula, what we write is for your reference and hope we could help you partly. Thanks for reading.