China records you can investigate.

The collection combines official publications, market and economic data, press headlines and social platform rankings. Some arrive directly from the publisher; others come through data providers. Source links and collection dates help you check each record.

1. 01

   Official channels.

   Registered channels include central ministries and regulators, the People's Bank of China, the 31 mainland provincial governments, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Each is scheduled for collection five times a day on Beijing time (06:00, 10:30, 14:00, 18:30 and 22:00). Access failures and changes to publishers' sites can leave gaps. The public health feed reports collection failures in aggregate.

2. 02

   Economic and market data.

   Policy rates, the government yield curve, the CNY central parity, Stock Connect flows, iron ore settlements, money and credit aggregates, trade and price prints. Direct sources include PBOC, ChinaBond, CFETS, HKEX and SGX. Other series use providers including EastMoney and Yahoo Finance. Check the source and observation date before treating a value as current.

3. 03

   Institutional press.

   Party organs, domestic financial and industry media, the English-facing state outlets, and the Western papers that cover China closely. Some headlines arrive through Google News RSS. These records help compare coverage at home and abroad; a press report is distinct from the official document it describes.

4. 04

   Platform attention.

   Baidu, Weibo and WeChat hot-list observations supplied by TianAPI. These are sampled rankings. A story appearing more often in our collection does not establish its total reach or represent public opinion across China.

Automated collection and analysis produce the daily brief. Checks catch some missing evidence, unsupported wording and stale data; they cannot establish that every published claim is correct.

Translation

DeepSeek translates Chinese headlines and selected text. These are machine translations. Where available, the original title and publisher link let you check the wording. Full-document translation is not part of the public dataset browser.

Ranking

Code ranks stories using recorded source appearances, recency and significance rules. The resulting selection supplies the evidence for the brief. Several sources repeating a story do not necessarily provide independent confirmation.

Baselines

Eligible numeric series are compared with their own 30-day and 90-day history. A short or incomplete record limits the comparison. Series with too few observed days are marked as building a baseline rather than assigned an unusual-move score.

Draft

A language model writes the reading of the day from the ranked stories and the baseline notes, under written editorial rules: cite the item you rely on, do not restate the headline, do not guess at causes.

Publication checks

Code checks and a model review assess drafts for citation problems, unsupported numbers and repeated or generic wording. Failed passages can be withheld or replaced with a summary of source facts. Automated checks are separate from human review.

Record

Archived editions preserve what the system published at a time slot. Dossiers connect a topic to cited documents and revisions. Forecasts declare how they resolve before they are published and are scored in public.

Explore data offers source-linked document metadata, social observations and indicator observations without an account. Filter the records and create CSV or JSON exports. Agents can request the same public datasets through the public datasets API. Each dataset states its coverage. Public access does not include the complete research archive.

Public daily editions, topic readings with their available history, and worked research examples are free to read. Membership controls still apply to the private research archive, Ask and the authenticated research API and MCP service. The public browser includes original-language extracted text only for selected documents approved for public release. Rights in source text remain with its owners.

New research examples disclose their AI assistance and review status. They remain ad-free until documented human review. Our editorial standards explain the distinction between automated checks and human review, advertising rules and how to report an error.

A market move or a spike in attention next to an official statement can strengthen or weaken a reading. It does not prove why something happened. Read an interpretation alongside its cited observations and stated uncertainty. Important decisions should go back to the cited document and to qualified professional advice. This site is information, not advice.

China Snapshot is operated by Tristan McInnis, Managing Partner of Inner Chapter, a China-anchored qualitative research consultancy, based in Shanghai. He is responsible for the site's research approach and corrections. Automated editions and AI-assisted research are not evidence that he personally reviewed each piece; a human review is identified separately when recorded.

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