What Must China Provide for This Business?

Start with the next milestone

Name the result the company needs next: a prototype, validated instrument, customer deployment, clinical or field test, lower-cost production process, research result, supply-chain change or market proof. Business fit begins with that milestone. Entity and city choices follow once the required input is clear.

What is missing today?

Describe what currently prevents the milestone and the input that would change it. That input may be a laboratory, engineering cycle, manufacturing process, supplier base, application environment, customer, specialist talent, infrastructure or institutional route.

• What must become faster, cheaper, more reliable or newly possible?
• Which input is genuinely scarce at the current base?
• What evidence would show that a China function improves the result?
• What is the best non-China alternative, and what would China need to beat?

Turn the hypothesis into a small test

A useful first step produces evidence before it creates fixed operating cost. Ask whether a named Chinese capability can support a bounded task, within a defined budget and deadline, with a result that changes the next decision.

Write a one-sentence reason to investigate

End this stage with one sentence: China is worth investigating because it may provide [specific input] needed to reach [specific milestone], and the first evidence will come from [bounded verification or experiment]. Use that sentence to focus the first enquiry.