China Policy, Licensing & Country Information

Find recorded institutions and roles for a country, optionally filtered by institution text. Inputs: country, institution. Returns paginated structured records with source_class, provenance, snapshot, pagination and limits. Recorded facts only; this query performs no new inference or aggregation. Coverage is limited to the available snapshot. No match returns an empty data array. Required: country. Missing required or invalid input produces an argument error.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "country": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 256,
      "description": "Country or region label exactly as recorded; no country-code or alias conversion. Exact match. Non-empty string, at most 256 characters; control characters are not accepted. Required. Supplied filters are combined with AND."
    },
    "institution": {
      "description": "Recorded institution name or entity identifier text. Literal, case-sensitive substring match; no fuzzy search. Non-empty string, at most 256 characters; control characters are not accepted. Optional; omitted means no filter on this field. Supplied filters are combined with AND.",
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 256
    },
    "limit": {
      "description": "Maximum number of records returned. Integer 1–100; default 20. A page may contain fewer records.",
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 100
    },
    "offset": {
      "description": "Zero-based pagination offset. Integer 0–999; default 0. Offsets of 1000 or greater are rejected. Use the returned next_offset when present.",
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0,
      "maximum": 999
    },
    "snapshot": {
      "description": "Optional expected snapshot.version, not a historical-version selector. If omitted, the current dataset snapshot is used. For continued pagination reuse the previous response snapshot.version; a mismatch is rejected.",
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 256
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "country"
  ],
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Find entries in a gazette issue, optionally filtered by document number. Inputs: issue, document_number. Returns paginated structured records with source_class, provenance, snapshot, pagination and limits. Recorded facts only; this query performs no new inference or aggregation. Coverage is limited to the available snapshot. No match returns an empty data array. Required: issue. Missing required or invalid input produces an argument error.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "issue": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 256,
      "description": "Gazette issue label exactly as recorded. Exact match. Non-empty string, at most 256 characters; control characters are not accepted. Required. Supplied filters are combined with AND."
    },
    "document_number": {
      "description": "Document number exactly as recorded. Exact match. Non-empty string, at most 256 characters; control characters are not accepted. Optional; omitted means no filter on this field. Supplied filters are combined with AND.",
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 256
    },
    "limit": {
      "description": "Maximum number of records returned. Integer 1–100; default 20. A page may contain fewer records.",
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 100
    },
    "offset": {
      "description": "Zero-based pagination offset. Integer 0–999; default 0. Offsets of 1000 or greater are rejected. Use the returned next_offset when present.",
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0,
      "maximum": 999
    },
    "snapshot": {
      "description": "Optional expected snapshot.version, not a historical-version selector. If omitted, the current dataset snapshot is used. For continued pagination reuse the previous response snapshot.version; a mismatch is rejected.",
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 256
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "issue"
  ],
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Find policy and document facts by title or document-number text. Inputs: query. Returns paginated structured records with source_class, provenance, snapshot, pagination and limits. Recorded facts only; this query performs no new inference or aggregation. Coverage is limited to the available snapshot. No match returns an empty data array. Required: query. Missing required or invalid input produces an argument error.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 256,
      "description": "Recorded policy title or document-number text. Literal, case-sensitive substring match; no fuzzy search. Non-empty string, at most 256 characters; control characters are not accepted. Required."
    },
    "limit": {
      "description": "Maximum number of records returned. Integer 1–100; default 20. A page may contain fewer records.",
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 100
    },
    "offset": {
      "description": "Zero-based pagination offset. Integer 0–999; default 0. Offsets of 1000 or greater are rejected. Use the returned next_offset when present.",
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0,
      "maximum": 999
    },
    "snapshot": {
      "description": "Optional expected snapshot.version, not a historical-version selector. If omitted, the current dataset snapshot is used. For continued pagination reuse the previous response snapshot.version; a mismatch is rejected.",
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 256
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Find licence catalog entries by recorded product or commodity text. Inputs: product. Returns paginated structured records with source_class, provenance, snapshot, pagination and limits. Recorded facts only; this query performs no new inference or aggregation. Coverage is limited to the available snapshot. No match returns an empty data array. Required: product. Missing required or invalid input produces an argument error.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "product": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 256,
      "description": "Recorded licence commodity or subject text. Literal, case-sensitive substring match; no fuzzy search. Non-empty string, at most 256 characters; control characters are not accepted. Required."
    },
    "limit": {
      "description": "Maximum number of records returned. Integer 1–100; default 20. A page may contain fewer records.",
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 100
    },
    "offset": {
      "description": "Zero-based pagination offset. Integer 0–999; default 0. Offsets of 1000 or greater are rejected. Use the returned next_offset when present.",
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 0,
      "maximum": 999
    },
    "snapshot": {
      "description": "Optional expected snapshot.version, not a historical-version selector. If omitted, the current dataset snapshot is used. For continued pagination reuse the previous response snapshot.version; a mismatch is rejected.",
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 256
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "product"
  ],
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Retrieve definitions of information formation classes, provenance fields and snapshot/version metadata. Takes no arguments. Returns the information-standard document, not business records or an assessment of facts.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {},
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "additionalProperties": false
}