We build websites that work in China.

Not from a slide deck in Paris. Not from a sales pitch in New York. From an office in Shanghai, with a team that's been building for the Chinese internet for over twenty years now.

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What We Believe

The gap between green dashboards in Frankfurt and a homepage that takes seventeen seconds to load in Shanghai. That gap is why we exist.

A French luxury group called us last spring. Their global homepage was taking seventeen seconds to load from Shanghai. Their marketing director in Paris had no idea, her dashboard showed green accross the board because it was measuring from Frankfurt.

A client conversation, ChinaWebFoundry, Shanghai · 2025

That gap, between what looks fine from outside China and what actually happens inside it, is why we exist.

Most websites built for China arent really built for China. Designed somewhere else, translated, hosted in Singapore, plugins calling out to blocked services nobody flagged. Six months in, technically live and functionally invisible.

China isnt a patch we apply on top of a global build. China is the build. Someone has to watch the site from inside the country. Thats us.

What We Do

Ten services. Four phases.
One team.

Plan first. Then build. Then get found. Then run the thing for as long as its live. You can take one piece, you can take all ten, most clients start with two or three.

Plan
Phase 1 of 4

Where your site stands today inside China, and what to do about it.

  • Strategy & Audit. We test your current site from real browsers in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. Every blocked resource, every compliance gap, every Baidu blind spot, documented. You walk away with a roadmap. Two to four weeks, fixed price.
  • Migration. Moving an existing site into China without losing SEO equity or content. ICP Bei'an, DNS cutover, database transfer, parallel staging enviroment that lets you test from inside the Firewall before you flip the switch.
How We Build

WordPress, Astro or WeChat. Heres how we decide.

Pick WordPress

If your marketing team needs to publish without a developer, or your editorial workflow involves more then three contributors. We harden it for the Firewall and strip out the parts that dont belong in China.

  • Editorial workflow, multi-author.
  • Hardened core, China-safe plugins.
  • WooCommerce localized for the mainland.

Pick Astro

If speed is the priority and your content doesnt change every day. Marketing sites, documentation, landing pages. Static output, near-instant load times, far less to maintain.

  • Static output, near-instant TTFB.
  • Documentation, landing, marketing.
  • Hosted on Aliyun or Tencent Cloud.

Pick WeChat

If your audience already lives inside WeChat (微信) and a website on the open web is not where the conversation happens. Official accounts, mini-programs, H5 pages, content built where Chinese users already are.

  • Official Account, content and CRM.
  • Mini-program for commerce or service.
  • H5 pages for campaigns and KOLs.

If your not sure, thats what the audit is for.

How We Engage

Three ways to start.

You can take one piece, you can take all ten. Most clients start with two or three. Pick the entry point that fits your moment.

One build

Project

Defined scope, fixed timeline.

Six weeks to four months.

Most common

Retainer

Ongoing content, SEO, GEO and maintenance.

Monthly, twelve months or longer. How most of our clients work with us.

Start here

Audit

One-off deep look. Performance, compliance, Baidu and AI search visibility.

Two to four weeks, fixed price.

Ready when you are

A site that loads in Shanghai.
Built by a team that lives there.