China's Multi-Level Energy Transition Policies with Annotations, 2000–2024

7,295 Chinese policy texts from national, provincial, and prefecture levels, spanning 2000 to 2024, were retrieved from PKULaw. Each document is annotated with 14 metadata fields and classified by policy objectives and instruments. The dataset was created by Wenqi Zhao to support research on policy mixes and multi-level governance.

Use Cases

• Analyzing policy mix composition based on the objective and instrument typologies.
• Studying multi-level governance patterns based on the national, provincial, and prefecture administrative tiers.
• Empirical research on the drivers of regional energy transition outcomes based on the annotated policy corpus.
• Training multi-label classification models for policy documents based on the objective and instrument categories.

Strengths

• 7,295 policy documents provide substantial textual coverage.
• Covers a 25-year time range from 2000 to 2024.
• Includes structured metadata (14 fields) and a detailed classification typology for objectives and instruments.
• Supports multi-label classification, allowing policies to have multiple objectives and instruments.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect source bias inherent to the PKULaw repository.

Provenance

Source

PKULaw

Collection Method

Policy texts retrieved and annotated with structured metadata and typologies.

Time Range

2000–2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 07:07:42; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China (national, provincial, prefecture levels)