Bespoke business delegations & expeditions to China
China Business Tours Built Around Your Agenda.
Bespoke China business tours, delegations and expeditions for leadership teams, trade organizations, buyers, investors and business schools. We choose the cities, the companies and the calendar with you, then arrange every meeting before you board.
01 Expeditions
Choose Your Expedition
Five starting points, one method: every China business tour is designed from scratch around your group and the decision it has to inform.
Most requestedCorporate Delegations
Your executives inside the companies that lead your sector: headquarters visits, sessions with senior management and B2B meetings, arranged around one commercial objective.
Explore corporate delegations
Trade Missions
A delegation for your members, under your banner: closed-door sessions with the teams behind China’s fastest-moving companies.
Explore trade missions
Sourcing Trips
Meet your next suppliers on their factory floor, pre-screened against your specs, with real pricing, MOQs and lead times.
Explore sourcing trips
Investor Tech Tours
Founders, incubators and hardware floors in Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Shanghai, mapped to your investment thesis.
Explore investor tech tours
Business School Study Tours
A turnkey China immersion: your faculty sets the academic frame, we deliver the access and run everything on the ground.
Explore study toursMarket entry, or an objective that doesn’t fit these five? Tell us what you need
02 Why go
Why a China Business Tour Beats Another Report
Most boardroom assumptions about China were formed before 2020, and the country has rebuilt entire industries since. Reading about it is not knowing it.
You Are Deciding on Second-Hand Information
Everything you know about China arrived through a filter: a consultancy deck, a headline, someone else’s summary. By the time it reaches your boardroom, the market has already moved.
Being in the Room
Headquarters, production floors and incubators. Live Q&A with founders and engineers, professional interpretation, nothing staged.
A Defensible Strategy
Verified contacts, a working model of how the ecosystem operates, and a China position you can argue in front of your board.
03 Formats
Business Tour, Delegation or Expedition: Which Format Fits?
Organizers use these words loosely, and they overlap. What matters is who travels and what the trip has to decide. Every format below is a bespoke China business tour, built from scratch around your group.
| Format | Who travels | What it is built for | Where to start |
|---|---|---|---|
| China business tour | Executives, founders or a mixed group | A first serious look at the market: the companies, the cities and how the ecosystem works | Choose your expedition |
| China business delegation | A leadership team or a company group | Meetings with the companies that lead your sector, around one commercial objective | Corporate delegations |
| China business expedition | A group that wants depth over speed | A multi-city route mixing headquarters, factory floors, incubators and B2B meetings | Choose your expedition |
| Trade mission | Chambers, associations and startup hubs | A member delegation under your banner, with B2B sessions for your members | Trade missions to China |
| Networking trip | Executives building relationships | Introductions, business dinners and follow-up with the right counterparts | Planning a China networking trip |
| Sourcing trip | Buyers and supply-chain teams | Factory visits and supplier meetings against your specifications | China sourcing trips |
| Tech tour | Investors, VCs and family offices | Founders, incubators and hardware floors mapped to your investment thesis | China tech tours for investors |
| Study tour | Business schools and executive education | Company visits and briefings for MBA, EMBA and executive programs | China study tours |
Source: InfluChina, based on 25+ expeditions delivered.
04 How it works
How We Organize Your Business Delegation to China
Four steps take a bespoke China business tour from first call to departure. You are involved in the first two and free of the rest.
The Brief
A working call to pin down the objective: what decision this trip has to inform, who is travelling, and what would make it worth the week.
The Design
We come back with a proposed route, a target list of companies and institutions, and a day-by-day agenda. You cut and add until it’s right.
The Arranging
We secure the visits, brief each host on who you are, book hotels and transfers, assign interpreters and handle visa support.
On the Ground
You travel with a bilingual team that runs the logistics and stays in the room, then leave with a contact dossier and written next steps.
05 What we handle
Everything Except the Flights
One team, from the first introduction to the last transfer, so your group can stay focused on the conversations.
Access & Agenda
Company outreach, host briefings, confirmed visit slots and institutional introductions where your agenda calls for them.
Language
Senior bilingual guides and professional English↔Chinese interpretation in every meeting, plus bilingual materials.
Hotels & Logistics
Hotels in the category you choose (3-star, 4-star or 5-star), domestic travel, transfers, on-site coordination in each city and visa support.
After the Trip
Contact dossier, company profiles, visit notes and a debrief to turn the week into next steps.
06 The route
Six Cities, One Corridor of Innovation
Our China business tours run the length of the country’s innovation corridor, from the Pearl River Delta’s hardware belt to Beijing. Your route uses the stops your objective needs.
Shenzhen 深圳
Hardware & deep techThe hardware capital: prototype to production in days, not quarters. Home of DJI, Huawei and the accelerators feeding them.
Guangzhou 广州
Trade & sourcingTrade fairs, sourcing floors and the supply chains that reach the rest of the world. Where manufacturing deals actually close.
Hong Kong 香港
Capital & financeCapital markets, holding structures and the bridge between mainland operations and global finance.
Hangzhou 杭州
E-commerce & AIAlibaba’s hometown and the livestream-commerce lab where the global e-commerce playbook is being rewritten.
Shanghai 上海
Brands & market entryConsumer brands, venture capital and the Free Trade Zone machinery that handles foreign market entry.
Beijing 北京
Policy & AI researchPolicy, frontier AI research and the institutions that set the direction of travel for everything else on this list.
07 Access
The Companies You’ll Sit Down With
Visits are confirmed for each expedition and matched to your sector. A representative sample of the network we operate across:
AI & Deep Tech
Mobility & EV
Commerce & Platforms
Hardware & Making
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08 At the table
Relationships Are Built at the Table
In China the meeting opens the door; the dinner is where trust is built. Every expedition includes hosted business dinners and cultural meals with executives from the companies on your agenda: an informal table, interpretation on hand, and the kind of introduction a conference room rarely produces.
It is where a scheduled visit turns into a working relationship, and where the conversations that matter usually start.
09 From the field
Previous Expeditions
Real groups, real rooms. Not stock photography.
10 Insights
Before You Go
How to Organize a Business Delegation to China
Company Visits in China: Access, Cities and How to Arrange Them
China Business Trip Guide: Visas, Apps, Payments and Etiquette
Trade Mission to China: A Planning Guide for Chambers
China Networking Trip: A 2026 Planning Guide for Executives
China Learning Expeditions: Executive Guide to Business Immersion Programs
11 Questions
China Business Tours, Answered
What Is a Bespoke China Business Tour?
A private business trip to China designed around one group’s objective. We choose the cities, the companies and the calendar with you, and arrange every meeting, interpreter, hotel and transfer before you travel. Nothing is pulled from a fixed programme.
What Is a China Business Delegation?
A group of executives, members of an organization or a company team travelling to China together to meet companies, institutions and potential partners around a shared objective. We organize business delegations to China end to end: company outreach, host briefings, B2B meetings, interpreters and logistics.
What Is a China Business Expedition?
A business trip to China designed for depth: several cities and a mix of headquarters visits, factory floors, incubators and B2B meetings, so the group comes back with a working model of the market. Every China business expedition we run is bespoke.
Who Are Your China Business Tours For?
Leadership teams on corporate delegations, chambers of commerce and business associations on trade missions, buyers on sourcing trips, investors on tech tours and business schools on study tours. If your objective fits none of these, we design around it all the same.
How Do You Organize a Business Trip to China?
In four steps: the brief, the design, the arranging and the expedition on the ground. You help define the objective and shape the route; we handle company outreach, host briefings, interpreters, hotels, transfers and visa support.
How Many People Can Join a Business Delegation to China?
From a leadership team of two or three people to a large member delegation. Group size shapes the format of each company visit and the logistics, so tell us your numbers in the form and we will design around them.
What Kind of Hotels Do You Book?
You choose the category: 3-star (budget), 4-star (business) or 5-star (high end). We then select hotels close to the meetings in each city, so the group spends its time in rooms that matter rather than in traffic.
Is the Trip Confidential?
Yes. Every expedition is private by default. Your objective, your target companies and the people travelling are shared only with the hosts who need them to prepare each meeting.
Plan your trip
Tell Us What You Need From China
Three quick answers about your group tell us enough to come back with a concrete recommendation for your China business tour.
- We read your answersWe reply by email with a first recommendation, or a few questions if we need them.
- A short callWe agree the objective, the rough timing and who is travelling.
- Your proposed routeA route, a target list of companies and an agenda for you to shape.
Prefer email? Write to hello@influchina.com
Your expedition in three questions
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