China Commerce

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China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) 商务数据中心 (data.mofcom.gov.cn) — monthly national series for outward direct investment, overseas contracted engineering, overseas labour dispatch, and utilised inbound FDI. Keyless.

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/china-commerce/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/china-commerce/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"mofcom_odi","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("mofcom_odi", {});
ask_pipeworx
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("china's ministry of commerce (mofcom) 商务数据中心 (data");