Revised 14 September 2026. Filing-conditioned local AI subsidies in China: instruments, sampling frame, beneficiary records, and the register join, 2024 to 2026

It contains 76 government instrument documents from 92 jurisdiction-level units in nine province-level jurisdictions (46 conditioning, 25 contrast, five flagged); the jurisdiction frame with a recorded class for every unit; 1,035 beneficiary records from published award notices resolving to 880 firms, including the strict cell of 226 records and 219 firms from six programs publishing attributable lists; a panel of 10,364 filing and registration records compiled from the Cyberspace Administration of China's published notices, August 2022 to July 2026, with a correction log; the frozen name-normalization rule, codebooks, the award-credential crosswalk and a matching sensitivity table; fifteen hashed captures of cited government pages; and a script that recomputes every reported quantity and exits with an error on any mismatch.