China Statistics Data

China Statistics Data

Use this skill to obtain official thematic statistics for China from the National Bureau of Statistics of China (NBS). Read it whenever the task requires Chinese socio-economic indicator data, especially data that will later be joined to administrative boundaries, mapped, charted, or used in a report.

Browser Access

The National Bureau of Statistics data portal is not a simple static download page. It is a browser-based JavaScript application. To search indicators, expand tables, switch dimensions, and trigger exports reliably, you need to operate the official website through Playwright MCP.

Before entering the data-download workflow, look at the tools currently available to you. If Playwright MCP browser-control tools are present, use them to open the official NBS website and work through the visible interface just as a user would.

When you find that Playwright MCP is not available, do not continue with the NBS data-download workflow yet. In your own words, remind the user to open GeoCode's top-right status button and enable Playwright MCP, explaining that you need browser-control capability before you can operate the NBS website and download thematic data.The GeoCode platform has included Playwright MCP since version 0.9.3, but users need to manually enable it before they can use its tools.

After the user enables Playwright MCP, continue from the official NBS website instead of relying on unofficial mirrors, guessed portal URLs, or hidden request parameters.

important: You cannot perform any other tasks while waiting for the user to enable MCP.

NBS Data Platform Structure

The main working site for this skill is the National Bureau of Statistics data platform: https://data.stats.gov.cn/dg/website/page.html. The site is organized as a navigation-based data platform. When you operate it through Playwright MCP, first identify which navigation entry matches the user's requested geography and time frequency, then open the corresponding page and work from the visible table interface.

The top-level navigation contains these major sections:

国家数据平台
├── 首页
├── 月度数据
├── 季度数据
├── 年度数据
├── 普查数据
├── 地区数据
├── 部门数据
├── 国际数据
├── 出版物
├── 我的收藏
└── 帮助

For geospatial and thematic mapping tasks, the most common entry point is 地区数据. This menu contains province-level, major-city, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan datasets. The URL hash suffix tells you which page you are on:

Use these direct page URLs when you already know the correct regional data entry:

Use this quick selection rule:

When the user asks for province-level annual thematic data, prefer fsYearData first. When the user asks for monthly or quarterly province-level indicators, use fsMonthData or fsQuarterData instead. When the user asks for Hong Kong, Macao, or Taiwan annual statistics, use their dedicated annual pages instead of forcing them into the mainland province table.

Region Selector

Pay close attention to the region selector on province-level pages such as fsMonthData, fsQuarterData, and fsYearData. This selector contains the names of individual provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, but it also contains a special option named 序列.

When the user needs data for all provinces nationwide, choose 序列 in the region selector. This shows all provincial units at once and is usually the correct way to build a province-level table for mapping or cross-region comparison.

Do not select provinces one by one unless the user explicitly asks for only a small set of specific regions. Selecting 序列 is faster, less error-prone, and avoids accidentally omitting a province.