OSINT-Tools-China

A list of OSINT tools that may be useful to you when conducting investigations related to People's Republic of China. Most of resources and tools has versions in Chinese only, a very few has English as an option.

Be careful! Please read the Bellingcat's article The Challenges of Conducting Open Source Research on China before you start.

Table of contents:

• Open Data portals
• Legal Entities
• Cadastral and other Maps
• Vehicles
• People, phones, social etc.
• Public procurements
• WHOIS
• Appendix

Open Data portals

Data

• National Bureau of Statistic. English is availiable

Courts

• China Judgements Online
• China Justice Big Data Service Platform
• The People's Court Announcement

Stock

• Shanghai Stock Exchange
• Hong Kong Stock Exchange

Legal Entities

• Cninfo. Chinese public companies financial reports and regular announcements.
• Bellingcat's GtBook China-related resources. Resources for research on companies in China.
• State Taxation Administration
• Credit Horizon. It can query and automatically monitor the basic and related credit information of any enterprise (more than 80 million) and executives across the country
• Belt and Road Portal
• CreditChina
• Jianweidata.com. Provides information services, such as the retrieval and screening of announcements, regulations, and financial data for practitioners. Their data has attracted practitioners in institutions including investment banks, law firms, funds, and listed companies to register and use it.
• National Enterprise Bankruptcy Information Disclosure Platform

Maps

• China Map Collection
• China Land Market Network
• Real Estate
• Tencent Maps
• Badu Maps

Vehicles

• Chinese Licence Plates Quick Guide
• Easy Car
• Platesmania
• China-Balanced-License-Plate-Recognition-Dataset-330k | GitHub

People

• Search by Name in China CSE. Phone search. Regional search is available
• Search for Missing Persons

Public procurement

• Public Procurement Portal
• China International Bidding
• China on Global Tenders
• China on Tendersontime

WHOIS

• ChinaZ
• CuteStat

Appendix

• READ | Tutorial | Searching in databases - China
• READ | OSINT: Legality and Ethics, And the Case of China
• READ ONCE AGAIN | The Challenges of Conducting Open Source Research on China
• 51 collection. Collection of Chinese open data
• Pangar-ban pages | OSINT CHINE. Big list of different sources, some are outdated, but most of links are alive and could be useful (in French)
• China in Bellingcat's Online Investigations Toolkit. May be outdated after BC GitBok launch
• ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database. A database providing otherwise secret information about more than 810k offshore companies, foundations, and trusts based on leaks like the Panama Papers or the Paradise Papers. Description in BC GitBook

Contributions

Feel free to add pull request here or join this project — OSINT For Countries V2.0