From raw fragments to a single golden record.
Chinese-language data does not arrive clean. Company names are ambiguous by design. Entities are restructured, renamed, and reorganised to obscure ownership. State affiliations run through layers of holding structures that standard tools never reach. Our five-step data lifecycle was built specifically to handle this complexity, integrating automated checks with human review at every stage.
Collect
Thousands of Chinese-language sources are ingested through our proprietary scraper infrastructure. AI-generated collection tools with standardised outputs are deployed across corporate registries, government filings, procurement tenders, patent databases, and news sources. No outbound traffic to China. No dependency on Chinese data providers.
Match
Incoming data is matched against 50M+ existing records using AI-powered entity resolution built for Chinese naming complexity. The system handles name changes, subsidiary structures, and reorganised entities that confuse standard tools. Every match decision carries a confidence score and a full audit trail.
Identify
Every resolved entity receives a unique Datenna identifier, a persistent intelligence fingerprint that survives name changes, restructurings, and mergers. One entity, one identity, fully traceable from source record to analyst screen.
Relate
Corporate linkages, ownership hierarchies, supply chain relationships, and personnel networks are mapped across the full dataset. This is where hidden connections become visible: military-civil fusion ties, state council ownership chains, and relationships between entities that have never appeared on a watchlist but sit at the heart of China's defence-industrial base.
Enrich
Where relevant, risk scores, defence labels, sanctions flags, and critical technology classifications are applied to a record. Critical technology labels are derived from the White House Critical and Emerging Technologies list. Sanctions cross-referencing and defence affiliation scoring are aligned to allied export control frameworks including EU dual-use classifications and multilateral sanctions regimes. The intelligence surfaces when it is there. It is not assumed.
Four standards. Applied to every record.
Quality assurance is not a final check. It wraps around every step of our data lifecycle. What reaches an analyst's screen is not simply data. It is intelligence-grade data with provenance, audit trails, and confidence scoring on every decision.
Coverage
Comprehensive mapping of China's technology and defence-industrial landscape. Every entity in critical technology sectors, defence supply chains, and sanctioned networks, continuously maintained.
Completeness
Global sanctions lists flag roughly 1,200 Chinese entities. Our Datenna Watchlist identifies over 2.7 million that warrant closer scrutiny: entities with defence ties, state ownership, or technology connections that have not yet reached an official designation. Completeness means seeing the risk before the watchlist catches up.
Freshness
The dataset is monitored continuously across every source. Sanctions updates land in real time. Filing changes are captured quarterly. Leadership movements and procurement awards are tracked daily. The intelligence stays current because the situation in China does not stand still.
Precision
Every fact in every record traces back to its original source. Collection timestamps and full provenance are preserved throughout. When an analyst uses Datenna to support a decision, they can show exactly where the evidence came from and how it was assessed. That is the standard intelligence professionals and regulatory bodies require.
One intelligence source. Four ways to access it.
Datenna is available in four ways, depending on how your organisation works and what your workflows require.
Used by the analysts and teams who need to know.
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The deepest China intelligence. Available now.
We map who in China is building what, how advanced they are, who funds them, who they work with, and what their connections are to the Chinese military and state.
