@pipeworx/china-commerce

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Tools: 5

China’s outward commercial activity — outward direct investment, overseas contracted engineering, overseas labour dispatch, and utilised inbound FDI — as monthly year-to-date cumulative national totals from the Ministry of Commerce’s data centre.

Tools

• mofcom_odi({ start_period?, end_period?, limit? }) — non-financial outward direct investment (对外直接投资): cumulative amount (USD 100M), number of enterprises, count of countries/regions reached, and YoY %.
• mofcom_overseas_contracting({ start_period?, end_period?, limit? }) — overseas contracted engineering (对外承包工程): cumulative newly-signed contract value and completed turnover, both USD 100M, each with YoY %.
• mofcom_labor_cooperation({ start_period?, end_period?, limit? }) — overseas labour dispatch (对外劳务合作): cumulative workers dispatched (10,000-person units), split by contracted-engineering vs labour-cooperation route, plus the YoY change (an absolute figure, not a percent).
• mofcom_fdi_utilised({ start_period?, end_period?, limit? }) — utilised inbound FDI (吸收外商直接投资): cumulative new FDI-enterprise count and, for periods before mid-2023, the cumulative dollar amount (USD 100M), each with YoY %.
• mofcom_series_list() — the four series above with their Chinese/English names, units, and current earliest/latest period — a cheap discovery call.

start_period/end_period accept YYYYMM or YYYY-MM; omit both for full history. limit caps how many of the matched rows come back (newest first, default 24, max 500).

Every row is a year-to-date cumulative figure, not a standalone monthly flow — China’s commerce ministry reports these as Jan-through-month totals that reset every January. Each tool’s response restates this in its note field so a caller does not mistake e.g. September’s cumulative total for September alone.

No per-country/region breakdown is available. The “count of countries/regions” field in mofcom_odi is exactly that — a count — not a split by destination. A separate MOFCOM “country statistics” section exists but covers unrelated macro indicators (GDP, CPI, trade balance) rather than ODI/contracting/labour by destination, and is out of scope for this pack.

Auth

Keyless. No cookie or session — just a same-site Referer header, which the pack sends on every call.

Data sources

• Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (中华人民共和国商务部), 商务数据中心 (the commerce data centre) — 非金融类对外直接投资统计 (outward direct investment), 对外承包工程统计 (overseas contracted engineering), 对外劳务合作统计 (overseas labour dispatch), and 吸收外商直接投资月报 (monthly utilised inbound FDI) series.

Found via the data centre’s own page-loader scripts, not curl-guessing — a direct API-path probe 404s, and the real calls only surface in each page’s <slug>.js. All four are keyless POST endpoints with no cookie/session, just a Referer header, and all accept an optional start/end period filter.

The utilised-FDI series (mofcom_fdi_utilised) stopped carrying the monetary figure through this feed around mid-2023 — only the new-enterprise count has kept reporting since; the pack returns actual_fdi_usd_100m: null for those periods rather than inventing a number or dropping the row.

ODI history starts 2003, overseas contracting starts 1979, labour cooperation starts 2012, and utilised-FDI starts 1983 — ranges confirmed live via mofcom_series_list, not assumed.

Tools

• mofcom_odi — China’s non-financial outward direct investment (对外直接投资, ODI) — monthly YEAR-TO-DATE CUMULATIVE amount in USD 100M, number of enterprises investing abroad, and the count of countries/regions reached,
• mofcom_overseas_contracting — China’s overseas contracted engineering projects (对外承包工程) — monthly YEAR-TO-DATE CUMULATIVE value of newly signed contracts and completed turnover, both in USD 100M, each with year-over-year %. Source
• mofcom_labor_cooperation — China’s overseas labour dispatch (对外劳务合作) — monthly YEAR-TO-DATE CUMULATIVE count (in 10,000-person units) of Chinese workers dispatched abroad, split by whether they went out under contracted-enginee
• mofcom_fdi_utilised — Utilised inbound foreign direct investment into China (吸收外商直接投资) and newly established FDI enterprises — monthly YEAR-TO-DATE CUMULATIVE figures, each with year-over-year %. Sourced live from MOFCOM’s
• mofcom_series_list — Lists the four MOFCOM data-centre series this pack covers (ODI, overseas contracting, labour cooperation, utilised FDI) with their Chinese/English names, units, and the live earliest/latest period eac