Today we launch our coverage of key Chinese economic data. The following events will now be reported on the Forex Factory calendar:
- GDP q/y
- Industrial Production y/y
- Trade Balance
- Manufacturing PMI
- CLSA Manufacturing PMI
- CPI y/y
- PPI y/y
- Fixed Asset Investment ytd/y
- More Coming Soon
As you may have noticed, Chinese data releases are gradually having a more pronounced impact on the currency markets. Presently their influence can rival high-profile G7 indicators, especially in regard to the yen and commodity currencies. It has long been evident that we needed to add the Chinese yuan (CNY) to the calendar, and early this year the Forex Factory economists set out to tackle the project.
The sources for Chinese data are far less transparent and less reliable than we are used to dealing with on the calendar, which is why we had avoided CNY for so long. It took our team five months of research, source gathering, release monitoring, and beta-testing to report the data with the same quality and reliability that we strive for on the calendar.
We cannot change how Chinese sources release and schedule data, but we can implement procedures that will bring clarity and consistency to our coverage. We have made several ‘FF Notes’ (see the Detail View by clicking the 
icon) to inform you of special circumstances you might expect to see, and we created a new set of ‘FF Alerts’ (see the 
inside the Detail View, where applicable) that will be used keep you abreast of scheduling issues as they happen. For the least reliable release schedules we opted to set the event’s default time to ‘Tentative’ to make you aware that we don’t know the exact release time. With all CNY data you should be prepared to see surprise early releases, leaked data later retracted, and data being delayed for days – we will do our best to inform you of these issues with the FF Alert function. Finally, we ask that you be slightly more forgiving of our mistakes as we become further acquainted with the new coverage.
We will report our first live CNY data in about 24 hours… see you there!
Posted by Tim, Forex Factory Senior Economist
Excelent addition! And very nice remarks regarding the reliability,i may add if any trader plans to trade according to this data, always take it with a grain of salt, official economic data from China comes in several flavours and is subject to manipulation. Anyway, some key data just can't be ignored, even with a considerable margin of error.
You guys rock! I've been looking for just this data across the web recently (b/c it has had a very pronounced effect on FX lately). Came up dry. Figured I'd have to shell out for a Bloomberg. Thanks!
The FF gang Do Rock... Nods, Kudos, Grats, etc....
Go with the flow....just don't go too long ;) Are a lot of major forex vendors offering Yuan's or whatever the Chinese currency dujour is these days?! Or is it just that it affects the dollar, et al?
Hi Tim & all i do have a question regardin FF calendar. it is legal if I would try to colect data from your calendar? can you provide us an RSS Xml data feed? i notice that you have an RSS feed but it is only by week and every week the name of xml file it change. I ask this because i am involved into a Artificial Intelligence project regardin capital market and economic calendar it is very important data for data mining module in order to extract rules. also I would like to tell you that into the calendar, more important is the date when an forecast it is announced and also the date when a revised it is released(i am quiet sure you don't need an explanation why forecast release data and revised release data it is so much important).
hi,Tim,How to make FX Calendar on one websites except using the external FX Calendar, I want to add the FX Calendar to my website, but I don't know how to get the data releasing interface. is there any agency that can provide some websites that wants to add the FX Calendar functions with the data releasing interface of FX Calendar? thank you.