TopChinaCar is an industry information site for international readers who follow China's auto industry. We write about the companies, the people, the sales and the overseas business, using the public record.TopChinaCar 是面向关注中国汽车产业的国际读者的行业信息站。我们根据公开记录，写中国车企、相关人事、销量和海外业务。
The collection stage watches 238 sources. The current list is on the sources page. The rules for what we will and will not claim are in the editorial policy.采集这一步看着 238 个信源。当前清单在信源池。什么能写、什么不能写，写在编辑方针里。
Business flow业务流程
A piece moves through six stages. The words on the arrows are the action between stages. After a correction is accepted, it is written back to the related pages.一条内容经过六个环节。箭头上写的是这一步在做什么。更正采纳之后，会写回相关页面。
Business flow: source collection, hand off to AI, AI screening and writing, send to checks, programmatic checks, publish if it passes, publishing to the daily email and the website, readers send tips or corrections, reader tips and corrections, revise after a check, revision, then update the related pages.业务流程：信源采集，交给 AI，AI 筛选和写稿，送去质检，程序质检，通过后发布，发布到日报邮件和网站，读者提交线索或更正，读者线索和更正，核实后修订，修订，然后写回相关页面。
Technical architecture技术架构
The website, the daily briefing service, the scheduled writing jobs, the models and the email each run on a public service named below.网站、日报服务、定时写稿、写稿用的模型和邮件，各自落在下面这些公开服务上。
Technical architecture: GitHub Actions runs scheduled jobs and drafting, then AI writing uses Claude, with DeepSeek and Tencent CodeBuddy cross-review as the alternative. The draft is saved to Cloudflare Workers and D1, the daily briefing service and database. Resend sends the email. Cloudflare Pages serves the website.技术架构：GitHub Actions 负责定时任务和写稿，AI 写稿使用 Claude，备选是 DeepSeek 与腾讯 CodeBuddy 互审。稿件保存到 Cloudflare Workers 和 D1，也就是日报服务和数据库。Resend 发送邮件。Cloudflare Pages 提供网站。
How each section is produced各栏目怎么生产
Frequency is how often a section is refreshed. Human check means whether a person has to approve it before it goes live.更新是这个栏目多久刷新一次。人工确认是指发布前要不要有人点头。
AI writes each briefing, including the China market daily and the overseas daily. A program checks the draft, then it publishes automatically.每份日报由 AI 撰写，包括中国汽车市场日报和中国汽车出海日报。程序质检通过后自动发布。
Updates更新
Every day每天
Human check人工确认
No editor confirmation. It publishes when the checks pass.不用人工确认。质检通过就发布。
Figures come from company announcements and public CPCA data. A program calculates the rankings. A period with no public figure is shown as no data, not as zero.数字来自公司公告和乘联分会的公开数据，排名由程序计算。没有公开数字就显示暂无数据，不写成 0。
Updates更新
Every month每月
Human check人工确认
The program publishes the calculated rankings. A person does not rewrite each rank by hand.程序算出排名后发布，不逐条人工改排名。
A list of the sources in use: RSS, Google News, exchange filings, WeChat accounts, and public LinkedIn posts found through Tavily search.正在使用的信源清单：RSS、Google News、交易所公告、公众号，以及经 Tavily 搜索到的 LinkedIn 公开内容。
Updates更新
Every week每周
Human check人工确认
Refreshed from the source pool. Entries are not rewritten by hand into articles.按信源池更新，不逐条手改成文章。
How we use AIAI 使用说明
Daily briefings, organization readings and contested readings are written by AI. Those pages are labeled AI-generated. People-intel items are extracted from announcements and keep a link to the original text. Sales rankings are calculated by a program from public figures, and the page names the data and the basis.日报、组织解读和争议解读由 AI 写成，页面上标明「AI 生成」。人事情报从公告抽取，并附上原文链接。销量排名由程序根据公开数字计算，页面写明数据和口径。
AI can be wrong. Please check names, titles, dates and figures against the original source. Corrections are welcome.AI 会出错。人名、职务、日期和数字请以原文为准。欢迎来更正。
Corrections更正政策
To ask for a correction, open the tip form for a correction. Say what is wrong, what the public record says, and include the source link. We reply within 48 hours, the same commitment as the editorial policy.申请更正请打开更正表单。写清哪里错了、公开记录怎么说，并附上出处链接。我们按编辑方针，在 48 小时内回复。
Once a correction is confirmed, it is applied on every related page, so the same fact is not left stale in a second place. The page keeps a note that it was corrected.核对成立后，更正会同步到所有相关页面，避免同一事实一处改了、另一处还是旧的。页面上会留下更正说明。
Editorial principles编辑原则
Public sources only只写有公开出处的事实
A factual sentence needs a public source a reader can open. We do not fill a gap with a made-up figure.事实句要有读者打得开的公开出处。空档不用编出来的数字去填。
No rumors, factions or private lives不写传闻、派系、私生活
We do not publish rumors, factional claims or details of private life.不刊登传闻，不写派系，不写私生活。
Inference sits apart from fact推断和事实分开写
A conclusion we draw is labeled as inference, separate from the sourced facts. A contested reading stays unpublished until the editor confirms it.我们自己做出的判断会标明是推断，和有出处的事实分开。争议解读在站长确认前不发布。