The current supply chain situation for peptides during holidays in China: Production, warehousing, and logistics are all suspended. Even during holidays, I need to take two hours to reply to emails and customer inquiries. The owner of this mountain inn enjoys brewing her own wine; I had a glass of pomegranate wine last night, which was quite good. Her cooking is also excellent; the three of us ate fish and beef. Current peptide purchase orders will be shipped after October 7th, and will be dispatched sequentially. Therefore, distributors with tight inventory can place orders now to facilitate advance queuing.

On the car ride, I reread *Selected Works of Mao Zedong*. I took my wife and daughter to a bed-and-breakfast in a small town for a vacation. During this National Day holiday, all the major tourist attractions across China were packed with people, so we chose to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

One last logistics problem before China’s National Day holiday. The Shenzhen route I normally use wasn’t available, so I had to switch this shipment to Shanghai. It took two days to move from Guangzhou to Shanghai, and today the tracking number finally came through. This is pretty normal in supply chain work. Routes change. Schedules change. Holidays make things harder. The important thing is to keep finding a workable solution and keep everyone updated. Glad we got this one moving before the 7-day holiday.

For the next three days, all freight forwarding companies were operating at full capacity. If you're not urgently short of inventory, please place your orders after October 7th. Because most of the flight schedules are already full.

Anything that stands the test of time is truly good; time validates everything. Above all, do not rush—stay true to your path, and aim for longevity and health.

Let’s take a look at the authentic Mid-Autumn Festival moon-worshiping customs in rural China. In ancient times, people would worship the moon after the harvest to pray for blessings. Farmers would offer mooncakes, pomelos, and other crops to the moon. The 15th day of the eighth lunar month falls right in the middle of autumn, which is why it’s called “Mid-Autumn.” The full moon symbolizes family reunion. Even when loved ones are far apart, they all gaze upon the same moon, which symbolizes completeness and togetherness.

September 25th is China's Mid-Autumn Festival. It is a traditional holiday celebrating the full moon, which symbolizes family reunion. My daughter is currently using a tablet to learn English, and I really admire her enthusiasm for learning new things. In China, learning English is actually quite challenging due to the lack of an English-speaking environment, and achieving fluency is even harder. My friends abroad consist solely of the distributors I work with. I’m wondering if I could ask one of them to serve as her online speaking tutor—that would be wonderful.

Previously, a shipment I ordered was detained by UPS in Canada. When I resent it to my customer, I used Canada Post. The shipping cost was lower than UPS, and it still only took 10 days to reach the customer. Not bad. My customer finds working with me very easy because I focus more on their order status than they do. They don't have to worry about peptide supply at all; they can just concentrate on building their local sales network.

A friendly warning to distributors: if your customers don’t already have a supplier they trust, I would be very careful about buying peptides from new contacts in China right now. Don’t let a cheap price make the decision for you. And this is probably not the best time to start testing random new WhatsApp sellers. Recently, I’ve been hearing more stories about small sales teams taking orders with no real intention of building a long-term business. Some are targeting individual buyers. Others may keep shipping to distributors for a while because the order sizes are bigger — until one day they don’t. That’s what worries me. At the same time, the serious players are moving in the opposite direction. The better manufacturers and supply teams are spending more time meeting established overseas distributors, hosting visits, talking about long-term supply, quality, and repeat business. This industry is becoming more divided. The good operators will probably get stronger. The bad ones will become more desperate, more short-term, and more willing to break the rules just to make one last sale. Too many people only care about the money in front of them. In the long run, that damages trust in Chinese suppliers as a whole. I don’t feel optimistic about that part of the market right now.

Current logistics situation of the Chinese peptide supply chain: Of the three freight forwarding companies I work with, two are in Shenzhen and one in Shanghai. One of the Shenzhen companies notified me today that they will stop shipping starting tomorrow. No end date has been given. The other two freight forwarding companies in Shenzhen and Shanghai are still able to ship. I want to remind all distributors that at any time, a reliable Chinese supplier contact is paramount. Because I have received information that in the next two months, some so-called small suppliers will only sell price lists and not ship any goods.

Stay restrained, stay slow, stay focused, stay focused on the long term.

I’m seeing a lot of people saying that APEC is going to shut down shipping from Shenzhen. I think that’s exaggerated. What’s actually happening is several things hitting at the same time. Mid-Autumn Festival is Sept 25–27, then China’s National Day holiday starts Oct 1. Freight companies will have people taking time off, so shipping will naturally slow down. At the same time, inspections in Shenzhen are getting tighter. Some freight forwarders with warehouses there are already clearing stock and trying not to hold too much inventory. And yes, some peptide suppliers keep their stock directly in freight forwarder warehouses. So when warehouses start clearing goods, inspections get stricter, and holidays are coming, people connect everything to APEC and say, “Shipping is stopping.” It’s not that simple. I don’t think international shipping is suddenly going to stop, but late September and October could definitely be slower and less predictable. If you’re a distributor, don’t panic-buy. Just plan your inventory a little earlier than usual.

In China, GHK-CU is the most readily available ingredient because it's a cosmetic peptide, and many pharmaceutical companies produce this raw material. Peptides are divided into two categories: cosmetic peptides and pharmaceutical peptides. Currently, almost all exported products are pharmaceutical peptides, the only difference being quality. Eli Lilly is very unhappy; all of this will disrupt its competitive advantage.

I've encountered many people asking me for their Certificates of Authorization (COA). I ​​usually tell them that a COA proves nothing because the cost of falsifying it is too low. They don't believe me and still want the COA, so I just give them the COA for the raw materials, and they have no further questions. Many so-called Chinese suppliers are actually just resellers. They have no pharmaceutical company resources and have never communicated with upstream suppliers; they are simply selling financial statements. Pharmaceutical companies' raw material COAs are confidential documents, and ordinary resellers cannot obtain them. They are only available after the raw materials have been purchased.

Recently, XA10（Semax） is in very short supply in China, but order volume indicates very high market demand. This is somewhat similar to the previous trend with HGH. Distributors and customers are advised to take note. In this situation, there's no need to order just one or two boxes. Distributors can start stockpiling, whether it's 20 or 50 boxes.

For shipments to the US and Canada, the risks associated with UPS shipping have increased recently, with some cases of goods being detained by customs. FedEx is safer, although it's a bit slower than UPS. We will choose the safest option when shipping. Most importantly, I will take full responsibility for any after-sales issues.

We just produced a batch of single-chamber cartridge vials, producing only two products: TR and RT, in 10/20/30mg strengths respectively. The reason this has been delayed for so long is because our previous batch of cartridge bottle production failed. The powder was compressed too tightly, making it impossible to reconstitute properly, so we destroyed the entire batch.