Understand how your brand is discovered, compared, and acted on in China.
Use GEO Workspace to test how your organisation appears across major Chinese AI engines, or China Traveller GEO Concierge to examine the wider traveller decision journey across AI, social search, travel platforms, maps and action paths.
Self-service Chinese AI assessment or specialist managed traveller GEO.
GEO FOR CHINA
Two ways to understand how your organisation appears in China
Choose self-service Chinese AI assessment for repeatable testing, or a specialist managed audit when the decision journey extends across traveller platforms, social search, maps and action paths.
SELF-SERVICE
GEO Workspace
China Audience GEO across major Chinese AI engines
Build structured Simplified-Chinese assessments, compare evidence across configured AI engines and identify where your organisation is visible, substituted, weakly supported or difficult to act on.
- 20-question standard assessment
- 6-engine China AI testing
- Model Only + Search Enhanced
- Evidence-linked results and reports
What’s Changing in China’s Discovery and Conversion Journey
China’s major platforms are no longer just channels for reach. They are increasingly shaping what gets seen, what gets trusted, and what gets chosen.
Shift 02
Trust is increasingly formed in-platform
Evaluation now happens inside community, creator, search, and native platform environments before users ever reach an owned destination.
Shift 03
Conversion is moving closer to content
Content, commerce, inquiry, booking, and service touchpoints are becoming more connected, reducing the distance between interest and action.
PRODUCT IN PRACTICE
From Chinese decision questions to evidence you can inspect
GEO Workspace keeps the tested question, provider response, returned sources and assessment context connected. Traveller GEO extends that evidence discipline into the wider traveller decision system.
Need evidence beyond AI? Traveller GEO extends the assessment across Chinese social search, travel platforms, maps and owned or partner action paths. Explore China Traveller GEO Concierge.
Broader China visibility, conversion and activation support
GEO is one part of the China decision journey. CTD also helps teams diagnose social visibility, remove conversion friction and build more consistent China execution.
China Social Visibility
Diagnose where brand presence appears, disappears, or underperforms across China’s key discovery touchpoints.
China Conversion Spine
Build the pathways that turn discovery into inquiry, booking, purchase, or next-step action.
China Activation Blueprint
Give teams the tools, workflows, and rollout structure needed to execute more consistently across markets or locations.
How China journeys are shifting
Discovery, trust, and action are increasingly happening inside the platform journey
China user journeys no longer separate media, trust-building, and action into clean stages. China Marketing AI helps teams see where discoverability is weak, where reassurance forms, and where next-step action starts to stall.
- Visibility now depends on more than owned channels.
- Source quality affects how confidently brands are represented.
- Action paths matter alongside discovery.
- Teams need a connected view across platforms.
Experience across hospitality, travel, destinations, retail, mobility, finance, and global brand work.
Selected Work
Examples of how CTD turns China visibility, audience and conversion questions into audits, research, platforms and operating programmes.
FAQ
Answers to common questions about the product, approach, and how it supports China-facing decisions.
What is China Marketing AI?
China Marketing AI is CTD’s China intelligence and GEO product environment for understanding how brands, destinations and organisations are discovered, evaluated and acted on across China-facing digital journeys. It combines self-service GEO tools, specialist China traveller diagnostics and broader visibility, conversion and activation services.
What is GEO Workspace?
GEO Workspace is the self-service China Audience GEO platform from ChinaMarketing.AI. It lets teams run structured Simplified-Chinese questions across configured Chinese AI engines, preserve the evidence behind each response and turn the results into repeatable assessments and reports.
What is China Traveller GEO Concierge?
China Traveller GEO Concierge is CTD’s managed specialist service for understanding how Mainland Chinese outbound travellers encounter an organisation across AI, Chinese social search, travel platforms, maps and owned or partner action paths. It extends beyond AI visibility into competitor substitution, source gaps, factual risk and traveller-action readiness.
Which should I use: GEO Workspace or China Traveller GEO?
Use GEO Workspace when you want repeatable self-service testing across Chinese AI engines. Use China Traveller GEO when the commercial question is specifically about Chinese travellers and requires broader evidence across AI, social search, travel platforms, maps and conversion paths with analyst review.
Does GEO Workspace guarantee AI rankings or recommendations?
No. GEO Workspace measures observed answers under defined questions, engines and execution conditions. It does not control external AI systems, guarantee recommendations or prove sales attribution.
What is the Free AI Visibility Snapshot?
The Free AI Visibility Snapshot is a directional China Traveller GEO entry point. It provides an initial view of blind discovery and branded readiness before a deeper managed Traveller GEO audit is considered.
Does ChinaMarketing.AI only cover AI?
No. GEO Workspace focuses on structured Chinese AI assessment and research, while China Traveller GEO can extend into Chinese social search, travel platforms, maps and owned or partner action paths. CTD also provides broader China social visibility, conversion and activation support.
How is it related to China Trading Desk?
China Marketing AI is built by China Trading Desk and draws on CTD’s China platform knowledge, research, traveller intelligence and delivery experience.
Latest Intelligence
This issue examines three structural shifts in China's platform ecosystem: Xiaohongshu's expansion from interest-based targeting to 3,200+ decision-factor tags, WeChat Mini Store's first full-scale Double 11 integration of social sharing and commerce, and Douyin Life Services' holiday data showing 66% growth in group-buy orders and 77% in hotel bookings. Together, these signals indicate that platform algorithms are moving closer to purchase intent, social commerce is maturing into a discovery-to-transaction loop, and travel demand is increasingly captured through short-video ecosystems rather than traditional OTAs.
Updated: 29/09/2026, 8:09:59 am GMT+8
View Full BriefXiaohongshu Launches 3,200+ Decision-Factor Tags, Moving Beyond Interest-Based Targeting
Xiaohongshu's marketing lab and Lingxi platform released the 'Crowd Universe White Paper,' introducing over 3,200 industry decision-factor tags across 20+ verticals. These tags aim to capture not just who users are or what they like, but why they make specific category choices—shifting audience understanding from basic profiles and lifestyle labels to purchase decision drivers.
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行业解读
WeChat Mini Store Sets 35-Day Double 11, Deepening Social Commerce Integration
At a WeChat Mini Store briefing on September 22, the platform announced its Double 11 campaign will run from October 12 to November 15—35 days total. The extended window is designed to further connect social sharing, content recommendation, and shopping, following earlier tests during 618 and autumn promotions. WeChat Mini Store, upgraded from Video Account Store in August 2024, is positioning itself as a full-funnel commerce environment within the WeChat ecosystem.
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权威财经媒体
Douyin Life Services Holiday Data: Group-Buy Orders Up 66%, Hotel Bookings Up 77%
Douyin Life Services released a Mid-Autumn and National Day consumption preview showing group-buy order volume up 66% year-on-year, hotel and guesthouse orders up nearly 77%, and scenic spot group-buys up over 52%. The data reflects a 'please 3 days off for 13 days' trend driving long-haul travel demand, with short-video platforms increasingly capturing travel discovery and booking.
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权威媒体
See how your organisation appears in China’s decision journey
Start with GEO Workspace for self-service Chinese AI assessment, or talk to us about a specialist China Traveller GEO audit.