Chinese Electric Vehicle Policy Documents from 2000 to 2023

China's electric vehicle policy landscape is documented in 7,300 annotated policy documents issued between 2000 and 2023 across national, provincial, and municipal levels. The dataset was created by Peng Gao using rule-based filtering, keyword dictionaries, manual checks, and LLM-assisted coding, with validated high accuracy. It provides metadata and annotations covering policy goals, instruments, EV-specificity, and supply-chain stages.

Use Cases

• Analyze the evolution of EV policy goals and instruments over time based on annotated metadata.
• Study the distribution of policy instruments across different supply-chain stages.
• Compare policy specificity and design between national, provincial, and municipal levels.
• Investigate the diffusion of industrial policy concepts across different regions in China.

Strengths

• Contains 7,300 policy documents, providing substantial coverage.
• Documents span a 23-year period from 2000 to 2023.
• Includes annotations for policy goals, instruments, EV-specificity, and supply-chain stages.
• Creation method involved manual checks and LLM-assisted coding with validated high accuracy.

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 geographic or temporal bias inherent to the collection sources.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Built using rule-based filtering, keyword dictionaries, manual checks, and LLM-assisted coding.

Time Range

2000 to 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-05 14:19:06; freshness should be verified.

Geography

China (national, provincial, and municipal levels)