endomorphosis/ipfs_china_laws

China In-Force National Laws (NPC 现行有效法律目录)

Research snapshot of in-force national 法律 listed in the NPC 现行有效法律目录 (cutoff 2026-08-15, advertised 301). Bodies come from official NPC 权威发布 / 法律文件 HTML, NPC PDFs, ministry .gov.cn (CMA/NRA/PBC/MOF/SPC 公报), and gov.cn pages; when live fetch failed, Internet Archive Wayback snapshots of the same official npc.gov.cn / gov.cn URLs (labeled archive-of-official).

flk.npc.gov.cn was not crawled (robots.txt Disallow: /). pkulaw, lawinfochina, Westlaw China, and Cloudflare browser rendering were not used.

Not legal advice. The official gazette / NPC text prevails.

Snapshot

Field	Value
Snapshot date	2026-09-03
Coverage	partial catalog-backed (complete=false)
Source	NPC 现行有效法律目录 PDF + 权威发布 + 法律文件 listing + ministry .gov.cn + gov.cn; Wayback of official URLs
Collector	scrapers/collect_npc_flk.py + scrapers/fill_cn.py + scrapers/fill_cn_harder.py + scrapers/fill_cn_last10.py
Laws / instruments	295 of 300 parsed catalog titles (advertised 301)
Articles	21454
Language	Chinese (zh)
Jurisdiction	China (national 法律)
License	prc-copyright-art-5 / other (not CC0)
Live vs archive	live/govcn 243; wayback 52; commoncrawl 0
Parquet sha256 laws	1cec3458800964ed4755a9b4587a58b14e960129cf6ec0c56f3c1631140b4315
Parquet sha256 articles	32e5e671667e2d943944c63f2615eae2f496a2484631e38d11ff9149a1caf635
Hub floor	290 laws (commit ffd18011); this dump is +5

Contents

• data/laws.parquet — one row per in-force catalog 法律 with harvested body (zstd).
• data/articles.parquet — 条 rows split from official HTML.
• scrapers/collect_npc_flk.py — primary collector (NPC catalog + 权威发布 + gov.cn).
• scrapers/fill_cn.py — second pass: Wayback of official wxzl/gongbao, banshi, flfg URLs.
• scrapers/fill_cn_harder.py / fill_cn_remainder.py / fill_cn_last10.py — exact-title remainder fill (ministry live, early Wayback, CC, mof fgk, SPC 公报).

License / reuse

Research snapshot of official PRC publications. Copyright in official documents is governed by PRC law (including Copyright Law Art. 5 on laws, regulations, state-organ documents and official translations) and the NPC / gov.cn terms of use. This snapshot does not claim CC0. license: other. Not legal advice; the official gazette / NPC text prevails.

Source

• NPC 现行有效法律目录 PDF: http://www.npc.gov.cn/c2/c30834/202608/P020260818381779930212.pdf
• NPC 权威发布: http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/c2/c12435/
• NPC 法律文件: http://www.npc.gov.cn/npc/c2/c12435/c12488/index.html
• NPC: http://www.npc.gov.cn/
• gov.cn 政策: https://www.gov.cn/zhengce/
• flk.npc.gov.cn: not crawled (robots Disallow: /)
• Wayback Machine CDX of the official hosts above (archive-of-official)

Known gaps

• Catalog PDF advertised 301 in-force 法律; parser produced 300 titles. 295 have statute-quality official HTML in this snapshot; 5 catalog titles have no usable official body after live npc.gov.cn/gov.cn/ministry fetch, Wayback (available API empty), and Common Crawl (no captures) of leftover wxzl/gongbao URLs.
• Remaining misses (1978–1988 NPC 决定/决议): 功勋荣誉章, 安置老弱病残干部, 老干部离休, 工人退休退职, 职工探亲待遇. Live gongbao JS-challenge; 2018–2020 leftover snapshots empty/wrong; IA/CC have no captures.
• This pass landed: 气象法 (fj.cma.gov.cn), 铁路法 (Wayback of nra.gov.cn), 中国人民银行法 (pbc.gov.cn), 广东省经济特区条例决议 (fgk.mof.gov.cn), 设立海事法院决定 (gongbao.court.gov.cn 主席令).
• 行政法规 (State Council administrative regulations) are out of scope of this 法律 staging (provincial 暂行办法 reprints were not mixed in).
• flk.npc.gov.cn National Database was not crawled (robots Disallow: /).
• Some harvested pages are 修改决定 rather than a fully consolidated text. Older 公报 captures may predate the latest amendment listed in the catalog note.
• Exact catalog title matcher (do not ship 治安管理处罚法 as 行政处罚法, etc.).
• Common Crawl WARC fetch contributed 0 rows.
• No machine translation. Chinese only.
• Not an official consolidation.