Government procurement refers to the process by which governmental entities, in order to carry out daily administrative activities or provide public services, under fiscal oversight and through legally prescribed methods and procedures, utilize open bidding and fair competition to purchase goods, projects, and services from domestic and international markets for governmental departments or affiliated organizations. Payment is made directly to suppliers by financial departments. Its essence embodies the organic integration of market competition mechanisms with fiscal expenditure management, with the primary characteristic being the legalized management of procurement activities. Government procurement predominantly employs methods such as tender-based procurement, limited competitive procurement, and competitive negotiations.

  This data product systematically incorporates Government Procurement Contract Announcement Information from China, covering the period from 2004 to the present. Key fields include contract amount, contract name, project ID, project name, contract signing date, procuring entity (Party A), supplier (Party B), agency, contract announcement date, and other core information. It provides systematic and standardized micro-level data support for academic research, policy evaluation, and commercial analysis of government procurement.

Data Features:

• Extensive Time Coverage, Focusing Primarily on 2015-Present: While the data includes records dating back to 2004, the bulk of records are concentrated from 2015 onward. This period exhibits comprehensive coverage and uninterrupted continuity, accurately reflecting the scale, structure, and evolving trends in government procurement in recent years.
• High Completeness in Core Fields, Enabling Direct Entity Analysis: Ten core fields - contract ID, contract name, project ID, project name, contract signing date, procuring entity, supplier, agency, contract announcement date, and contract amount - demonstrate high completeness across the vast majority of announcement records. These fields are readily applicable to mainstream analyses such as fund distribution, entity relationships, temporal trends, and regional/industry categorizations.
• Structured Format for Enhanced Matching and Integration: Based on standardized contract announcement information, the data features clearly identifiable fields for procuring entities (Party A) and suppliers (Party B), facilitating cross-database matching and integrated analysis with corporate registration data, business registration data, patent data, and financial data. Scholars have already utilized these linkages, matching government procurement data with listed company data and enterprise patent data to conduct empirical research on corporate technological innovation and digital transformation.

Data Application Value:

• Economics and Public Management Academic Research: The substantial volume and funding scale of government procurement exert profound real-world impacts on economic development, offering researchers a micro-level foundation for empirical analysis. Prior studies have employed procurement data to explore advanced topics such as the effect of digital procurement on corporate AI innovation, the role of procurement in facilitating critical core technology breakthroughs in enterprises, and green supply chain spillover effects of government procurement.
• Policy Evaluation and Government Governance Optimization: Government procurement serves as a significant instrument for macroeconomic regulation and guiding industrial development. This dataset supports evaluations of procurement policy implementation effectiveness, encompassing analyses of procurement compliance, efficiency assessments, and examinations of single-market construction outcomes. The high completeness of the procuring entity, supplier, contract amount, and date fields enables effective construction of key variables for such analyses. The strong continuity of post-2015 data is particularly suitable for comparative analyses before and after major policy junctures, like the "streamlining administration and service enhancement" reform and revisions to the Government Procurement Law.
• Industrial and Supply Chain Research: As a pivotal demand-side element within supply chains, government procurement exerts significant ripple effects on upstream and downstream enterprises. Researchers can leverage this data alongside input-output tables to analyze the transmission effects of government expenditures along supply chains. Existing research indicates that procurement-induced promotion effects exhibit regional and supply chain spillover effects, ultimately guiding corporate innovation. Such studies principally rely on core fields like contract amount, procuring entity, supplier, and industry classification, for which data completeness satisfies mainstream analytical requirements.

  Government procurement data constitutes a vital bridge connecting government actions with market entities, demonstrating broad application prospects in fields like economic research, public administration, policy evaluation, and commercial analysis. This data product’s core strengths lie in its high-quality, consistent, and standardized contract announcement records since 2015. Notably, key fields including contract amount, procuring entity, and supplier possess high completeness, robustly underpinning mainstream analytical scenarios. Whether for cutting-edge academic exploration, policy impact assessment, procurement market dynamics insight, or corporate strategy formulation, this data offers a solid foundation. It empowers users to gain deep insights into China’s economic development and government governance through the unique lens of government procurement.

Time Range

2004-2025.12.31

Data Scale

Field Display

Sample Data

Relevant Literature

• Huang Jicheng and Zhu Guangshun, 2023: "China's Green Development Model: Government Procurement and Enterprise Green Innovation," [World Economy](The World Economy) Vol. 11.
• Sun Wei and Ye Chusheng, 2023: "How Government Procurement Influences Enterprise Innovation—With Discussion on the Synergy of 'Pull' from Demand-Side Policies and 'Push' from Supply-Side Policies," [China Industrial Economics](China Industrial Economics) Vol.1.
• Dou Chao, Wang Qiaowan, and Chen Xiao, 2020: "Can Government-Background Client Relationships Alleviate Financing Constraints for Private Enterprises?" [Journal of Finance and Economics Studies](Finance & Trade Economics) Vol.11.
• Zhang Qinlin and Shen Hongtao, 2020: "Can Major Government Customers Enhance Enterprise Total Factor Productivity?" [Journal of Finance and Economics Studies](Finance & Trade Economics) Vol.11.
• Dou Chao, Yuan Man, and Chen Xiao, 2020: "Major Government-Background Customers and Audit Fees—From a Supply Chain Risk Transmission Perspective," [Accounting Research](Accounting Research) Vol.03.
• Yuan Man, Dou Chao, and Xue Jian, 2019: "Ducks Harbinger Spring's Arrival—Can Analysts Decipher State Sector Procurement?," [China Accounting Review](China Accounting Review) Vol.02.
• Liu Jinghuan, Zhang Xiao, and Wang Baoshun, 2013: "Research on the Economic Functions of Government Procurement Policies in China," [Finance Research](Fiscal Research) Vol.2.
• Martin Beraja, David Y. Yang and Noam Yuchtman, 2022, "Data-intensive Innovation and the State: Evidence from AI Firms in China", The Review of Economic Studies.
• Cohen, Daniel A., Li, Bin. 2020. “Customer-Base Concentration, Investment, and Profitability: The U.S. Government as a Major Customer.” The Accounting Review, 95(1): 101-131.

Data Update Frequency

Annual Update