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外 Waitan Ludi Policy Terminal China industrial-policy monitor · updated 2026-10-25
Legal view Local protection cases and the compliance screen first.

Reports

Analyses written up from the corpus. Most regenerate with the pipeline; the local-protection review is hand-written.

Waitan Ludi Policy Terminal: research guide

for legal readers

How to use the terminal’s corpus-wide research tools, then return to the evidence workspace.

Local protection under central bans

for legal readers

Hand-reviewed cases where local rules contradict central bans on local protection.

Compliance screen

for legal readers

Keyword-screen leads: local documents below central bans on local protection.

NEV subsidies by firm ownership

for legal readers

Claims against approvals in MIIT's settlement rounds, 2016–2019, and why claims were cut.

Policies that name firms

for legal readers

Firm lists in policy documents: who is listed, for what, by ownership.

Sector radar: method and current readings

Sixteen strategic sectors on policy and trade indicators, with robustness checks and one pre-specified test; generated from code.

Briefing note: China's industrial-policy machine

Five findings in two pages: substitution, trade, Switzerland, transmission, the 15th plan.

Implementation lag

How long local governments take to cite and act on central policy.

Who may apply: local-registration conditions

Eligibility clauses that admit only locally registered applicants: the screen, its hand check (56/60) and the rates by level.

Do provinces still copy State Council directives?

Share of each directive copied into its provincial restatement, 2013–26 (exploratory): rising to 2018, lower in 2025–26 on few documents.

Horizon scan

Trending terms, tree activity and announced documents from gov.cn news.

Pre-analysis plan: provincial responsiveness

How the responsiveness decline was re-tested: estimands, rival explanations, decision rules, deviations.

Results: provincial responsiveness

The pre-registered test: the decline is not statistically established (0.61, 0.28–1.07).

Documents cited but not held

The crawl frontier: what the corpus cites and does not yet hold.