Che168, Dongchedi, Guazi: China's used car websites for exporters

Chinese used car websites at a glance

Che168 (二手车之家)

che168.com is the used-car marketplace of Autohome (汽车之家), one of China's largest car websites. Dealers and private sellers list cars of every Chinese and imported brand. A listing usually has the price, the registration date, the mileage shown on the dash, photos, battery and power data for new-energy cars, and on many cars a condition check (车况检测). The VIN (车架号) is shown on some listings and sometimes partly masked.

Dongchedi (懂车帝)

Dongchedi started as a car news and review platform from ByteDance, the company behind Douyin and TikTok, and grew a used-car marketplace next to its reviews. Listings carry the price, mileage, registration date, photos and often video, options, inspection and history reports where available, the number of keys, the seller type (商家 dealer or 个人 private) and the city.

Guazi (瓜子二手车) and en.guazi.com

Guazi is one of the best-known used-car platforms in China. Its export catalog, en.guazi.com↗, offers Chinese cars to buyers abroad, with prices in US dollars, inspection and history reports, options and battery capacity for electric cars. Some cars there are sold at auction and show a current bid. For an exporter it is the shortest path: the text is already in English and the price is already in dollars. The domestic guazi.com is a different site, in Chinese and in yuan.

What a Chinese used-car listing contains

Che168 and Dongchedi use much the same labels. These are the ones that matter for an export decision:

Two of these trip people up. 款 (kuǎn) marks the maker's model-year label: a 2020款 car is the 2020 version of the model, which may have been built and registered in 2019 or 2021. And 过户次数 counts transfers, not owners: zero transfers means one owner since new.

表显 (biǎoxiǎn) literally means “as displayed”. The site reports what the dashboard says; it does not certify it. Where a history report exists, compare the mileage at service visits with the figure on the listing.

Normalising Chinese listings: from 万 to numbers

万 (wàn) is ten thousand. Chinese sites write prices in 万 yuan and mileage in 万 kilometres, which keeps numbers short on a phone screen and makes them useless in a database until you convert them. The rules are simple; the volume is what hurts.

One trap if you write your own parser: floating-point maths. In JavaScript, 10.88 * 10000 gives 108800.00000000001 and 19.99 * 10000 gives 199899.99999999997. Round the result, or better, parse the digits as text:

// "12.58万" -> 125800, "4.6万公里" -> 46000, anything else -> nullfunction fromWan(text) {  const m = /^\s*(\d+)(?:\.(\d{1,4}))?\s*万/.exec(String(text))  if (!m) return null  const decimals = (m[2] || '').padEnd(4, '0')  return Number(m[1]) * 10000 + Number(decimals)} fromWan('12.58万')    // 125800fromWan('4.6万公里')  // 46000fromWan('19.99万')    // 199900

Brand and model names

Brands are written in Chinese: 大众 is Volkswagen, 丰田 Toyota, 本田 Honda, 奔驰 Mercedes-Benz, 宝马 BMW, 比亚迪 BYD, 吉利 Geely. Foreign brands are often built by joint ventures, and the venture's name comes first: 上汽大众 (SAIC Volkswagen) and 一汽-大众 (FAW-Volkswagen) are both Volkswagen, but each builds its own models. The Lavida (朗逸) is a China-market model that a buyer abroad may never have heard of, so a catalog should show the brand, the model in Latin letters and, where useful, the venture that built it. Keep the original Chinese next to it for anyone checking the car by hand.

Emission labels need the same care. 国六 is China 6, and you will also see 国六b and 国五 (China 5). China's standards are close to the Euro ones in spirit but are not the same certificate, so if your destination asks for a Euro class, check with your broker which Chinese label it accepts rather than mapping 国六 to Euro 6 yourself.

Checking a Chinese used car before you buy

The words that should make you look twice are the same on every Chinese site. Search the listing and its report for them before you look at the price:

A clean-looking listing with 一手车 (one owner), 非营运 (private use) and a full set of service records is what export buyers pay more for. A 准新车 (nearly new car) with a few thousand kilometres is attractive too, but for those the export rules below matter more than the condition.

Photos tell you the rest. Chinese dealers often post dozens of pictures, including the engine bay and the boot floor; uneven panel gaps, overspray on rubber seals and new bolts on the wings show up there long before any report mentions them.

How exporting a used car from China works

For years China had no formal channel for exporting used cars. In 2019 the Ministry of Commerce and other agencies began allowing used-car exports through approved companies in pilot regions, and the list of regions and companies has been widened several times since. The broad sequence looks like this:

Common destinations have included Central Asia, Russia and the Middle East, with land routes as important as the sea for the first two.

Zero-mileage used cars (零公里二手车)

A large part of China's “used” car exports in recent years were cars that were registered and then exported almost at once, with little or nothing on the odometer. Registering them made them used cars on paper, which opened markets where the maker had no official dealer. Chinese authorities criticised the practice in 2025, and reports from late 2025 describe tighter controls on exporting cars registered within roughly 180 days, including requirements tied to the maker's authorisation and after-sales service. Check the current rules with your exporter before you buy a nearly new car for export.

Electric cars

Since 1 January 2026, exports of pure electric passenger cars from China need an export licence, according to an announcement by the Ministry of Commerce and other agencies in September 2025. For a buyer, this mostly means working with an exporter that holds the right licence and asking how it applies to the exact car.

Which site fits which job

• Price research on a model: Che168 and Dongchedi, for domestic prices in yuan and a wide choice.
• Cars already set up for export: en.guazi.com, with prices in dollars and English descriptions.
• Reports: Dongchedi and Guazi often carry inspection and history reports; Che168 has condition checks on many cars.
• Electric cars: battery capacity in kWh is the first field buyers ask about; Guazi export records carry it, and Che168 shows battery and power data.

Comparing a domestic price with an export price needs one adjustment: the domestic price is the car standing in China, the export price already covers the exporter's work. In the example below the same car is listed on three sites, and the dollar price is higher than the yuan prices converted, as you would expect.

Getting Che168, Dongchedi and Guazi as one feed

AuctionsAPI collects all three through its marketplace API, in the same schema as Encar and the Korean sites: prices as whole numbers with their currency, mileage in kilometres, dates as year and month, fuel and gearbox as clean values, and reports as structured data. This request asks for electric cars from 2021 onward, priced up to 150,000 yuan, cheapest first:

curl -G "https://api.auctionsapi.com/search" \  -d "api_key=YOUR_API_KEY" \  -d "year_from=2021" \  -d "fuels[]=2" \  -d "currency=cny" \  -d "price_to=150000" \  -d "sort=cheaper" \  -d "perPage=50" \  -H "Accept: application/json"

A car listed on several of these sites arrives as one record with every listing and its price, which is how the comparison above is built. Each site has its own page with an example record and a request builder: Che168, Dongchedi and Guazi.

Where to go from here

If you are pricing cars for export, start with en.guazi.com for ready export prices and use Che168 and Dongchedi to check what the same model costs in China. If you are building a catalog, look through the full list of Chinese, Korean and other sites on the sources page. Korean cars follow different conventions, explained in our Encar API article, and the shipping side of an Asian import is covered step by step in the guide to importing a car from Korea.