China marketing starts with how your brand is discovered.
Test your visibility across Chinese AI engines with GEO Workspace. Connect that evidence to China social discovery, traveller journeys and clearer paths to booking or enquiry with specialist support from China Trading Desk.
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 focuses on three platform-level shifts during the 2026 Double 11 window: WeChat Store is expanding transaction incentives for merchants, creators and public figures; Xiaohongshu is testing a paid membership layer aimed at higher-spending buyers while simultaneously enforcing stricter rules against fake and low-quality marketing content; and Douyin e-commerce is running a shorter, in-stock, coupon-led promotion with distribution across multiple ByteDance apps. For brands in travel, hospitality, retail and destination marketing, the common thread is that platform conversion mechanics are becoming more structured and more gated, while organic content credibility is being policed more aggressively.
Updated: 11/11/2026, 8:08:09 am GMT+8
View Full BriefWeChat Store Builds a Full Double 11 Incentive Stack for Merchants, Creators and Public Figures
WeChat Store's growth center issued a series of November policies covering image-text commerce incentives, merchant incremental incentives, Double 11 platform promotion incentives, limited-time flash sales and service-provider policies. Separately, the 'Star Friends Are Here' program targets celebrities, entrepreneurs and athletes with e-commerce growth cards, cold-start or sprint incentives and technical service fee rebates, conditional on GMV, commercialization spend, live-stream duration and the public figure's own on-camera participation.
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Xiaohongshu's Paid Membership Card Extends Into E-Commerce for Double 11
Xiaohongshu expanded its 'Xiaohong Card' from a local-life card into online e-commerce scenarios for Double 11, using a 66 yuan annual fee, member-only 5% discounts, bonus points and red packets, and return shipping coverage to attract higher-spending users and merchants.
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Xiaohongshu Cracks Down on Fake Notes, Low-Quality Volume Posting and Coordinated Comment Marketing
Xiaohongshu announced enforcement against fake marketing notes and comments, low-quality volume posting, coordinated comment-section marketing and systematic violating accounts. Penalties include traffic throttling, content folding or deletion, comment restrictions, permanent bans and legal pursuit.
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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.