Everton's community programme director, Ted Sutton, who is on the trip to China,said: "This is a great opportunity for us. Football is big in China but it still remains an untapped market as far as the Premiership is concerned.
"No other club has done anything like this in the Far East - we would be leading the way and, from the commercial aspect, China is untapped."
Everton will share the cost of building the academy with Chinese investors and Sutton added: "You get a feel when a player will make it, you can just tell.
"We would never dream of bringing people over if we didn't think they could make the grade.
"There's no timescale but if we find all the building blocks are in place things could be up and running quickly. But we are not rushing in. We can't put the good name of Everton to just anything, it has to be right."