Entity-list data and verification methodology

Current public snapshot

Full dataset verified through

2026-08-22

Data updated

2026-08-22 09:09:38 (UTC+8)

Companies & institutions

273

People

153

Sourced official records

540

Source revision

42

Organizations first-pass tracked

273 / 273

People privacy-safe triaged

153 / 153

Unassigned research tasks

0

Public websites or leads

273 / 273

Email suffixes or candidates

273 / 273

Person organization / subject references

153 / 153

Verified websites

0

Verified email suffixes

0

Awaiting independent review

116

Stop-line exceptions

3

Four list categories

1. Export Control List — entities named by China’s export-control authority.
2. Watch List — enhanced attention to end users, end uses and related risks.
3. Unreliable Entity List — records published by the Unreliable Entity List Working Mechanism.
4. Countermeasure List — measures published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other authorities under China’s countermeasure framework.

The current snapshot backfills records in these four categories from 2019 onward where the original official text can be verified. Taiwan Affairs Office disciplinary lists and United Nations Security Council sanctions regimes are kept outside this database. One entity may appear in several categories or notices; each notice keeps its own status and source.

Primary official sources

Published records link to the issuing authority, including the Ministry of Commerce, its export-control bureau, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the State Council. An internal record without a qualifying official source is not counted as a sourced public action.

Status and date definitions

• In force — the recorded basis remains effective.
• Suspended — a subsequent official document has suspended the measure; suspension is not repeal.
• Repealed / ended — the original record has been expressly repealed, cancelled or ended.

Publication and effective dates remain separate. Subsequent suspension, repeal or restoration documents are shown alongside the original notice.

Public-field boundary

The website publishes official names, aliases, country or region, list category, status, notice details, dates, measure summaries, official links and verification dates. The digital-identity section may also publish organization websites, corporate email suffixes, entity relationships, evidence types, technical status and a separate identity-check date. Internal business impact, processing status, automated screening rules, maintainer information, individual email addresses, attachments and other private fields are excluded.

How websites and email suffixes are checked

List-law evidence and organization digital identity are maintained separately. Public values have three levels: an official page plus same-domain email evidence becomes “verified” only after independent review; an official subject page awaiting that review is “reference only”; and a value derived from a website’s registered domain, or not yet checked for mail routing, is only an “email-domain candidate.” A candidate does not prove that the legal entity receives mail there or that a sender is authorized.

Each website is also classified as the exact entity, a parent, a group, a brand, a government host or a historical relationship. Legacy values remain website leads until reviewed. Shared registered domains trigger an explicit warning to compare the legal name, address and signature.

Research and review are separate operations

Full coverage means every organization has a website and email-domain candidate and every person has a privacy-safe organization or public-subject reference; it does not make those values verified. After a researcher completes official-source, relationship and DNS checks, a record moves to “awaiting independent review.” Only a second reviewer who can reproduce the conclusion and pass every automated gate may upgrade the label to “verified.” Unreachable sites, conflicts and irreproducible sources remain candidates or stop-line exceptions.

Two verification dates

“Full dataset verified through” applies only to official list sources. Websites and email suffixes have a separate identity-check date. A website or DNS change cannot advance the list watermark, and a list update cannot silently renew digital-identity evidence.

Personal information

Information about a person is limited to what an official notice expressly states and what is relevant to that decision. A person page first uses the organization stated in the notice; if none is stated, it may use a separately sourced public-role or professional-subject reference. Those organization domains stay outside the person’s root identity record and are never presented as personal email domains, used to infer an address pattern, or treated as proof of current employment.

How our operating philosophy governs this feature

Reverence for principles, care for people, and harmony between human judgment and the world of facts is a publishing constraint, not decoration. We respect law, primary evidence and factual limits; reduce repetitive work while protecting the privacy of users and named people; and keep list evidence, organizational identity, technical signals and human judgment in balance without collapsing them into an automatic decision. When evidence is insufficient, the process stops rather than filling a field with inference.

Updates and corrections

Official sources may be monitored frequently, but detection does not trigger automatic publication. A change must be checked against the official text, recorded in the internal source and covered by a current attestation before a new public snapshot is built. Each new snapshot refreshes the website's “Data updated” timestamp to the second; “Full dataset verified through” remains the separate official-source coverage watermark. To report an error, use the contact page and include the official source.