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WorldMonitor maintains two independent official-document lanes: revision-aware numeric macro observations and typed policy/enforcement events. They share the decision-signal provenance contract, but they do not share fetchers, scoring, or freshness rules.

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Official macro observations

The launched macro snapshot requires five series: NBS is collected from www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/; SAFE is collected from www.safe.gov.cn/safe/. Both sources have bounded request budgets, manual redirect handling, response-size limits, robots preflight, source-host allowlists, and reviewed attribution requirements. The macro seeder does not use a proxy to bypass a rejected source decision. The following reviewed candidates remain explicit unavailable observations instead of being silently omitted:
  • pboc_aggregate_financing_flow
  • pboc_new_rmb_loans
  • pboc_policy_liquidity_operation
  • gacc_exports
  • gacc_imports
  • gacc_trade_balance
PBoC candidates remain blocked when www.pbc.gov.cn robots policy disallows the reviewed paths or terms review is incomplete. GACC candidates remain blocked when english.customs.gov.cn cannot pass the TLS/source preflight. Their missing observations remain unavailable.

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M2 through an official republication

pboc_m2_yoy has one additional reviewed source binding at the Shanghai Financial Portal. The portal credits the People’s Bank of China. The observation and its provenance identify Shanghai as the actual republisher and retain the PBOC credit. This binding does not open direct PBOC access or supply other PBOC series. The August report states August 2026 M2 growth of 7.5%, with a Shanghai publication date of 15 September 2026. This is a day-precision republication date, not an original PBOC release timestamp or an NBS database publication date. The subsequent quarter report supplies September monthly M2 growth of 7.2% and is dated 15 October 2026. The adapter discovers the newest national report on the reviewed listing, including half-year and quarter titles, and extracts only the M2 month-end observation. It does not confuse the balance, M1 or M0 with the M2 growth rate. The HTTPS robots endpoint returned a normal 404 on 24 October 2026. The existing runtime records this as no_rules_published. Each run checks robots before the listing and article, uses verified HTTPS with manual redirects, and has a six-request limit and a 15-second total fetch deadline for this optional source. The portal’s copyright statement, section 2, requires users of republications to retain the credited source. Ingestion is limited to numeric facts and publication metadata with source credit and a link to the article. Article prose and third-party media are not redistributed. M2 uses a 50-day observation-age limit. The July report was republished on 17 August, 48 days after the preceding June month-end. The limit includes the macro worker’s next 36-hour interval. A newer retrieval does not make an old observation current. Source failures preserve the last successful publication and retrieval clocks and expose the failed attempt separately. M2 remains optional for the five-series launch gate. Existing stored v2 payloads with a null PBOC M2 row remain valid; the Shanghai binding requires its own matching publisher preflight. These code contracts do not establish deployment or production acceptance.

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Revisions and direction

Each official observation retains its observation period, publication time, retrieval time, source URL, vintage ID, revision sequence, and supersession state. A correction creates or updates a traceable vintage; it does not rewrite the historical point-in-time record. Direction is calculated only when the published series contract supplies a valid comparison. Missing comparison values remain unavailable. The snapshot is launch-ready only when all five required observations are valid and within their individual age budgets. Transport freshness and snapshot completeness are written as separate seed metadata. Only a published snapshot records a completed run, so a rejected snapshot is retried on the next macro bundle tick (08:00 and 09:00 UTC daily) instead of waiting out the 36-hour interval. The transport metadata carries no content age until the canonical snapshot is published. The post-publication hook records the published content age before the completion marker. Validation or publication failures therefore leave chinaMacro health at STALE_CONTENT while preserving the last-good snapshot. GET /api/economic/v1/get-china-macro-snapshot reads the canonical economic:china:macro:v2 seed and never fans out to upstream publishers on a cache miss. The macro Railway member runs every 36 hours.

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Release calendar

The release calendar reads the current NBS calendar from www.stats.gov.cn. Loan Prime Rate dates are generated from the reviewed Chinese business-day calendar and marked provisional, then promoted to verified only when the corresponding ChinaMoney/CFETS notice is found on www.chinamoney.com.cn. Failure of the required NBS calendar fails the calendar build. Failure of ChinaMoney verification leaves LPR dates provisional and records the source decision; it does not relabel them as verified.

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Policy and enforcement events

The policy lane polls six official agencies: Each agency is limited to one listing request and at most three reviewed document fetches per run, with a 400 ms same-host cadence. Listing responses are capped at 750 KB and documents at 2 MB. URLs must match the reviewed host and path contract. The deterministic taxonomy emits:
  • consultation_draft
  • announcement_guidance
  • final_rule
  • administrative_approval_restriction
  • investigation
  • enforcement_penalty
  • effective_date_change
  • amendment_correction_repeal_supersession
  • unknown
The published event keeps the original Chinese title and text, translation state, document number, publication and effective dates, reviewed sector/entity links, content hash, classification evidence, lineage, revisions, and full provenance. Unknown classification is retained as unknown; it is not promoted to enforcement. The Railway macro bundle refreshes this lane every 6 hours. It retains at most 120 events across complete lineages for 180 days. A failed agency preserves still-valid last-good events with transport freshness changed to error; healthy agencies continue independently.

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Alert boundary

Consultation drafts, guidance, and unknown policy classifications do not alert. Reviewed policy/enforcement alerts require a new stable lineage. Corrections and repeat ingestion retain the same lineage for deduplication. The bounded China decision-signal composition publishes at most four valid items from this lane.