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Data Insights

Findings mined from the datasets behind data-hub — official Chinese news, central policy documents, and startup records. Every chart and every number on these pages can be reproduced with a single API query, documented in each page's methodology section.

YC went global, then came home

Non-US companies were 6% of the 2012 intake, 40% at the 2022 peak, and back to ~9% by 2025. Two decades of YC company geography in one aggregation.

2026-06-11 · data as of 2026-06-11

What the State Council writes about

Trade-customs-tourism is the largest theme across the full archive; land-and-energy is the clearest recent riser (3 docs in 2019 → 41 in 2024); health spiked through the pandemic then faded.

2026-06-11 · data as of 2026-06-11

The vocabulary handoff: 精准扶贫 → 乡村振兴

Targeted poverty alleviation peaked in 2017 and hit zero broadcast mentions by 2023; rural revitalization appeared the same year it peaked. Plus four more phrases that faded from the broadcast.

2026-06-11 · data as of 2026-06-11

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