Databases

Four Databases will be published to present crucial data collected by the China Horizons project regarding Chinese society, economy, internal politics, and foreign relations.

The free, open access online databases will be updated regularly and will be available to access through the lifecycle of the project and for a minimum of three years afterwards.

Chinese foreign policy

China’s regional and global strategies

This database provides a set of 45 variables related to UNGA voting affinity vis-à-vis the PRC, official lending, and other bilateral economic and political indicators for China and 43 African countries over the period 2000-2020. The indicators are grouped into four categories: voting data, loan and debt, economic indicators, and political indicators.

This dataset was compiled in order to conduct research and econometric work for the China Horizons journal article “Lend your Money, Lose your Friend?” - Chinese Official Lending and Bilateral Political Alignment: The Case of Africa, written by Clément Durif, Junior Research Fellow at the Asia Centre.

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Chinese economy

China’s Economic Data Repository (CED)”

Data on the Chinese economy and EU-China economic ties is sometimes scarce and difficult to find. Furthermore, some key macroeconomic variables are defined differently, meaning estimates need to be made to work with indicators comparable with the rest of the world.
This dashboard, developed by Bruegel, addresses these shortcomings by displaying what has been deemed the most relevant macroeconomic data for China and EU-China relations.
The dashboard is divided into four sections:

Our proprietary indicators of sentiment about the Chinese economy, featuring consumer and investor sentiment, as well as our own indicator of economic policy uncertainty;
High-frequency data, both for macro and financial variables, such as retail sales, housing transactions and exchange rate movements;
Low-frequency data, mainly consisting of fiscal, debt and external indicators, as well as productivity and innovation ones;
EU-China trade and investment data.

Data (1) and (2) are updated monthly; (3) and (4) are updated quarterly. Additional sections will follow in the future.

Chinese party-state politics

Chinese party-state politics – a catalogue of policy documents

Under WP3, CBS has produced a database of key central-level Chinese policy documents intended for the policy community, researchers, and the general public within the EU. The database catalogues and provides commentary on key/guiding policy documents issued by the Central Committee and/or State Council within the research area of WP3 (Chinese party-state politics).

Chinese society and culture

Voices of China’s Society and Culture

Under WP2, Sciences Po, SWPS University and Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) have created a free online database of primary and secondary sources in Chinese (“Voices of China’s society and culture”) intended for the policy community, researchers, and the general public of the EU, linked to the website of the China Horizons project and partner institutions that catalogue the primary and secondary sources used in WP2, including films, theatre production, works of literature, visual art, cultural movements, interviews as well as survey reports.