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China Statistics Data Query (cn-stats)

Queries China's National Bureau of Statistics public API (data.stats.gov.cn) with curl + jq to pull GDP, CPI, population and housing price index data.

Data & AnalyticsIntermediate★ 160⑂ 20AI score 8/10Last updated: Sep 15, 2026

What it does

  • Teaches Claude to hit the public API endpoints behind China's official statistics portal data.stats.gov.cn.
  • Documents the indicator-tree codes (1–14): monthly, quarterly, annual, by-province, major-city prices, HK/Macao/Taiwan, and cross-country comparisons.
  • Provides the full call chain: browse categories → search indicators → fetch region lists → query actual values.
  • Uses jq to flatten JSON responses into TSV (year / indicator / value / unit) that drops straight into tables or analysis.

Who it's for

  • Analysts, researchers and journalists tracking Chinese macro data, CPI and the property market.
  • Trade, export and market-strategy teams that need official source statistics.
  • Data engineers who prefer a public API over brittle web scraping.

Examples

  1. "Build a table of China's monthly CPI for the last three years" → resolve the monthly root node, then call stream/esData with 202301MM-202512MM.
  2. "Compare residential sales price indices for Beijing and Shanghai" → pull city codes (110000000000, 310000000000) from the major-cities list and run a multi-region query.
  3. "Search indicators for '常住人口' (permanent resident population) and fetch the annual series" → indicator search API plus the annual-data root node.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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git clone https://github.com/aahl/skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r skills/skills/cn-stats ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Check prerequisites: run curl --version and jq --version. Install if missing (brew install jq on macOS, sudo apt install jq curl on Ubuntu).
  2. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/aahl/skills.git
  4. Copy just this skill: cp -r skills/skills/cn-stats ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Restart Claude Code and try a prompt like "Get China's CPI for the last 12 months".
  6. If calls fail, the portal's API may have changed — inspect data.stats.gov.cn in your browser's Network tab and update the endpoints in SKILL.md.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT