Writing down what can be checked, from inside China.
The part of China that is hard to see from outside: what a factory quote actually contains, what freight costs this month, what a market stall charges, what a hospital visit involves, and where the number in a headline came from. Six sections, one rule — if a number appears here, it came out of a script or a dataset that can be re-run. The AI tooling I test for a living is one of the six, not the theme of the site.
Try LPR, fapiao, freight rates — or ask for what is missing.
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Sections
- AI and engineering 9 posts
Evaluations, task books and pipelines — plus the numbers worth keeping, from model prices to page weight.
- Supply chain 17 posts
What things cost to make and move: factory quotes, sourcing, freight rates, month by month.
- Life in China 28 posts
Everyday life here, sorted into what has been measured and what is only habit.
- Data and the world 11 posts
Open datasets, charted — global flows, and what they look like up close in one place.
- Health 4 posts
Sleep, food, teeth, sun, screening — the measurable part of looking after a body, written from the public guidance and never as advice.
- 海外华人 5 posts · 中文
中文栏目：生活成本、跨境比价、出入境流程，按年更新。
Notes
If you need a supplier, a quotation or a number in your own deck checked rather than written about, that is paid work.