I was expecting a typical country comparison article, where a country's policies are misrepresented to an unsuspecting audience in order to push the author's favorite policy proposal, but I was pleasantly surprised by this one.

I've used Qichacha https://qcc.com/ in the past to look up various Chinese companies and it was really quite surprising how easy they made it to access all kinds of information. On the other hand, they're trying harder and harder to monetize their service by putting information behind login walls etc.

It's also interesting that OpenCorporates (mentioned in the article) doesn't seem to have any data on Chinese companies at all. Searching for 公司 https://opencorporates.com/companies?q=%E5%85%AC%E5%8F%B8&ut... turns up more than 2 million companies in Hong Kong, 792 in Japan, 5 in New Zealand, and one each in Belgium and Vietnam, and that's it. Maybe they missed the window of opportunity before NECIPS started requiring account registration and they don't want to use third party aggregators?