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What this is

Explore China records.
Put the evidence to work.

Search document metadata, follow social hot lists and compare economic observations over time. Filter the public datasets and export the records you need, without an account. Dossiers, daily editions and worked research help you interpret what you find.

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Graphite composite of the Great Hall of the People, Shanghai financial district, the People's Bank of China, and Yangshan port infrastructure.
China policy, markets, institutions and public attention
For policy, risk, investment and strategy analystsOfficial releasesEconomic and market dataInstitutional pressPlatform attentionTime & provenance

What you can inspect

Investigate a topic and check the records.

  1. 01

    Public records you can filter and export.

    Browse retained document metadata, social hot-list observations and indicator observations. Filter by title, source and collection date, choose columns, and export CSV or JSON. Collection is scheduled at 06:00, 10:30, 14:00, 18:30 and 22:00 Beijing time; coverage gaps and repeated observations are explained alongside the data.

  2. 02

    Market and policy numbers, with their sources and historical context.

    First-party feeds include the government yield curve, CNY parity, Stock Connect and SGX iron ore. Other series use vendors such as EastMoney and Yahoo. Eligible series are compared with their available 30-day and 90-day history; limited history and stale observations constrain the analysis. Check the source and observation date before using a number.

  3. 03

    Standing dossiers, with cited evidence and saved revisions.

    Topics include property, trade, semiconductors, energy, fiscal stimulus, the platform economy, Taiwan and U.S.-China diplomacy. Read the current analysis, available earlier revisions and their evidence free. Explore shared citations and export readings as Markdown or JSON. A saved revision records our analysis, not necessarily a change in the underlying policy.

  4. 04

    Forecasts with a written resolution rule and a public scorecard.

    A question does not exist until it says how it resolves. The resolver is deterministic code reading the feed or the government document, never a model, and the track record is public in full, misses and voids included. The track record is still building; a published scorecard is not evidence of established forecasting skill.

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    Public data for scripts and agents.

    The public datasets API provides the browser's records through filtered pages and CSV or JSON exports. Source links, available dates and coverage notes travel with the records. Start with the developer guide. The Professional research API and MCP tools remain separate member services.

The line

Public datasets and reading. Optional member research.

Explore retained records and their history, inspect sources and create page exports without signing in. Topic readings and their available history, dated daily editions, worked research and the public forecast board are also free. Professional founding access adds the member workspace, saved Ask research sessions, member document search, Regions and Institutions views, and the Professional research API and MCP tools.

Graphite illustration of Shanghai's Yangshan Deep-Water Port, its container yards, cranes, ship and bridge.
Yangshan Deep-Water Port, Shanghai
Data

FREE

Build an export around your question.

Filter the public records, choose the columns you need and download a page as CSV or JSON. Selected documents include approved original-language extractions; other records link you to their sources.

Graphite illustration of the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Great Hall of the People, Beijing
Dossiers

FREE, CURRENT READING

Get context on a topic.

Current dossier readings connect a topic to cited documents and open questions. Worked research examples explain their calculations and provide the evidence used.

Graphite illustration of two cleanroom technicians inspecting a silicon wafer in a Shanghai fabrication facility.
Wafer fabrication, Shanghai
Research

PROFESSIONAL

Continue in the member workspace.

Ask questions of retrieved evidence, retain research sessions, inspect dossier revisions and use Professional research API tools. See pricing or request an invitation.

Who makes it

Operated by Tristan McInnis.

Automated collectors gather records, code performs calculations, and language models assist with translations and analysis. Tristan McInnis is responsible for the research approach and corrections. Automated checks do not establish personal review of each page; human review is identified when recorded. The method is on the method page; the rules are in the editorial standards.