China Educational Digitalisation Policy Dataset: Policy Metadata, Analytical Coding, and Longitudinal Relationships (1950–2025)

It contains a locked register of 51 central governmental and party-state policy documents and closely related national initiatives, including 20 items designated as Core Policy Evidence.The repository includes: (1) a 51-item policy metadata master register; (2) a structured policy-corpus register aligned with Appendix A of the associated article; (3) a six-dimension analytical coding matrix covering Learning, Domestic Adaptation, Developmental Alignment, Capacity Building, Coordinated Governance, and Institutionalisation; (4) a 20-item Core Policy Evidence register; (5) a source and access register containing document numbers, dates, issuing authorities, official URLs or archival citations, and verification notes; (6) a coding framework and codebook; and (7) a longitudinal relationship audit documenting selected cases of policy reuse, redirection, layering, coordination, standardisation, and institutionalisation.The dataset is designed to support transparency, reproducibility, and documentary verification of the article’s analysis of recursive governance-capacity formation.

The coding captures documentary evidence and authorised policy arrangements and should not be interpreted as direct evidence of implementation effectiveness, educational outcomes, institutional compliance, or causal impact.Full-text copies of third-party policy documents are not redistributed in this repository. Users are directed instead to official public source URLs or archival citations where available. Rights in the underlying policy documents remain with their respective issuing bodies, publishers, archives, or source repositories.