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Research Notes
Working judgements on manufacturing data, how factories get discovered, and shifts in industrial technology. These positions move as the evidence does, and we log the changes at the foot of each piece.
One Sentence, One Prospect List: Six Manufacturing-Sales Workflows Rewritten by MCP and Agent Skills
The Tianxia Gongchang open platform turned five capabilities over 4.8 million factories into tools an AI assistant can call directly, and released an official Agent Skill. Six workflows show what changes in manufacturing sales: a Ningbo territory motion narrowed from 430 to 34, a Jiangsu ICP cut from 39,747 to 1,707 and exported by district slices, pre-show verification, exporter filtering, legacy lead enrichment, and assistant setup. Every figure was retrieved on August 4, 2026.
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DeepSeek V4 Flash Post-Launch Review: From 'Shock Moment' to 'Efficiency as the Norm', Chinese LLMs Enter Their Second Phase
On July 31, 2026, DeepSeek quietly shipped the official V4 Flash in its API changelog: a model with 13 billion active parameters that overtook the preview of its own 1.6-trillion-parameter flagship on agentic benchmarks. Markets barely moved, yet the price war has flipped, and this time it was OpenAI that cut first. This report reviews the launch, the global market reaction, and the deeper shifts in the US-China AI landscape, and asks what plunging inference costs mean for Chinese manufacturing.
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Plugging 4.8 Million Factories Into AI: What an Open Platform and MCP Mean for the Future of Manufacturing
The Tianxia Gongchang open platform exposes the data foundation of 4.8 million Chinese factories to every application and AI assistant through five capabilities and two access methods, with an MCP service and an official Agent Skill rolling out. This essay examines how that changes B2B sales workflows, sourcing costs, the developer toolbox, and how factories get discovered — and which expectations deserve restraint.
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The Science of Site Selection: When 3.45 Million Factory Coordinates Meet AI
A 30-chapter deep dive: two centuries of location theory, 3.45 million real factory-site coordinates, 1,572 algorithm-discovered industrial clusters, measurable supplier radii, and the five maps that turn factory site selection from craft into science.
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The Inaugural Year of Industrial AI Agents: The Real Progress of Large Models Entering Chinese Factories
From the State Council's "AI Plus" initiative to the eight-ministry special document targeting 1,000 high-caliber industrial AI agents by 2027, the policy chain has closed the loop; IDC research shows the adoption rate of large models among Chinese industrial enterprises rose from 9.6% to 47.5% within a year. This article reviews the policy trajectory, deployment scenarios, and real bottlenecks of industrial AI agents.
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4.8 Million Real Factories × AI: The Data Foundation Race in Supply Chain Discovery
Enterprise information coverage does not equal factory coverage; product catalog coverage does not equal production capacity coverage. In the new AI-driven phase of supply chain discovery, the quality of the data foundation — not its scale — is becoming the decisive variable that determines an AI system's capability ceiling.
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Cracking the 'Unfiltered Dimension' Problem: How AI-Verified Recall Fills Structured Data Gaps
Export qualifications, niche certifications, and specialized processes cannot be pre-indexed as structured fields. Traditional search either ignores these dimensions or returns spuriously precise large recall sets. AI online verification combined with in-database cross-checking is closing the structured data gaps in supply chain discovery.
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AI Is Reshaping B2B Factory Discovery: From Keyword Search to Conversational Finding
The structural limitations of keyword search are constraining B2B factory sourcing efficiency. Conversational AI — through iterative requirement clarification and real-data counter-questioning — is redefining the factory discovery paradigm.
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China Auto Industry Watch January-April 2026: The Hot Exports / Cold Domestic Sales Scissors Gap
January-April 2026: China vehicle exports hit 3.12 million units (+61.5% YoY), April alone reaching 901,000 -- a historic record; NEV exports topped 50% for the first time. Meanwhile domestic Q1 sales fell ~6%, dealer inventory climbed to 1.89 months, and OEM net margins hit a near-record low of 3.2%. This report dissects the structural causes of the divergence, five regional export dynamics, four tariff shocks, Q1 earnings from major OEMs, and the outlook through 2027.
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