ChineseAgent is the international-facing arm of the E-HENG Group – first-generation, privately owned, and operating from Shanghai's Bund since 2000.
ChineseAgent acts as an intermediary for foreign scientific startups building a foothold in China. We are often a company's first partner in the Chinese market, helping shape an entry strategy that fits the business plan rather than the other way around. We know the problems our clients run into, and our goal in every engagement is simple: make your entry into China faster and easier.
ChineseAgent was launched in 2020 to open E-HENG's customer network to foreign high-tech companies that want to enter and grow in the Chinese market. As part of the E-HENG Group, we bring over 25 years of experience to every step — market research, strategy, outreach, sales execution, and logistics. We work with new entrants opening the Chinese market for the first time, and with companies whose current distribution channels aren't delivering.
Our company name “易恒” — pronounced E-Heng in Chinese — means adaptability with endurance or constancy. It is also used in forming “贸易”, which means trade in Chinese.
The E-HENG Group was established independently in 2000 and has spent more than two decades helping multinational companies do business in China. Headquartered on the Bund in Shanghai, it is one of the country's largest and earliest private import and export companies.
That history gives our team real depth in marketing, logistics, finance, and legal affairs — and the connections to go with it. Every client's goals and obstacles are different, so we build the service around them, not the reverse.
E-HENG's original business was import-export agency work and international logistics, which is why so many multinationals are our customers today. E-HENG TECH sells imported products; its key partners include Thermo Fisher Scientific, PerkinElmer, ZEISS, Agilent Technologies, Shimadzu Corporation, Sartorius, Novasep, Hamilton Company, MB Dynamics, Concurrent Technologies Corporation, HEAD acoustics, PCB Piezotronics, MTS Systems, and Canon Electron.
ChineseAgent puts the networks built through that work to use for a different audience: newer, smaller high-tech companies that want to enter the Chinese market quickly.
To provide an opportunity for any company to bring their business to China.
To help existing clients grow and expand their business in China.
Our objective is the same in every engagement: shorten the distance between your business plan and your first revenue in China. We are the partner on the ground who turns strategy into shipments, contracts, and customers.
We stay with clients through every step — market research, entry strategy, outreach, regulatory work, sales, and logistics. We also help companies whose current distribution channels aren't working find a better arrangement.
As part of the E-HENG Group, ChineseAgent draws on more than two decades of import-export work, customs fluency, and long-standing relationships with Chinese authorities, distributors, and end customers.
We are often the first partner a foreign scientific startup has in China — and a long-term operating partner to established multinationals across Japan, Germany, Italy, the UK, the US, Sweden, Israel, and beyond.
ISO 9001:2015Quality-management certified company.
Send us a brief on your product and target sectors. We'll come back with a scoped proposal within one Shanghai business day.
