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Regional Country Price Index Platform

With the in-depth adjustment of the global trade pattern and the rapid development of regional and national disciplines, systematic and real-time quantitative tracking of price dynamics in various countries has become a core requirement for academic research, policy analysis and business decision-making. This proposal proposes to build a "regional country price index" system based on the YiSight regional country research platform. By integrating the three major capabilities of multi-source and multi-lingual price data collection, AI intelligent cleaning and analysis, and knowledge base-driven in-depth research, a price index product matrix covering the world's major economies will be formed.

1. Demand background and construction necessity 01·Macro background

In 2022, the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council officially included regional and national studies in the first-level subject catalog, which has promoted a surge in demand for systematic cognitive tools for the outside world in colleges and universities. In this context, price is one of the most direct and objective quantitative indicators for observing a country’s economic performance:

• Price data is a basic variable in economic research, directly reflecting inflation levels, monetary policy trends and supply and demand structures.

• Cross-country comparative price index is an important reference benchmark for international trade negotiations and bilateral investment decisions.

• Regional price changes are often the leading signal of geopolitical risks and resource games.

• Regional country research in universities urgently needs the support of structured and continuously updated price data infrastructure.

02 · Existing pain points

At present, regional country price research faces the following outstanding problems:

03 · Policy opportunities

There are currently multiple policy windows to support the implementation of this project:

• The country’s “14th Five-Year Plan” clearly emphasizes improving international data acquisition and analysis capabilities

• The Ministry of Commerce and the National Development and Reform Commission continue to promote the construction of economic monitoring systems for countries along the “Belt and Road”

• The Ministry of Education continues to invest special funds for regional and national discipline construction to encourage the construction of digital research infrastructure

• The transformation of university think tanks requires the extension of research results to advisory services, and price index is a natural carrier of high-frequency results.

2. Regional country price index scheme design 01 · Index system architecture

It is recommended to construct a four-level "regional country price index" system to form a complete analysis chain from micro price signals to macroeconomic judgments:

02 · Geographic coverage

It is recommended to promote country coverage in stages according to priority to ensure a balance between data quality and coverage breadth:

• The first phase (priority coverage): 10 ASEAN countries, Northeast Asia (Japan and South Korea), five Central Asian countries, major economies in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, Israel), major African economies (South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria)

• The second stage (expanded coverage): major EU member states, important economies in Latin America, South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh)

• The third stage (global coverage): supplement small and medium-sized economies and island countries to achieve full coverage of United Nations member states

03 · Data collection plan

Relying on the multi-source public opinion collection capabilities of the YiSight platform, a special collection system for price data is built:

(1) Access to structured data sources

• Official statistics: Configure targeted collection sites on the official websites of national statistical bureaus, central banks, and finance ministries to achieve automatic capture of data after release

• International organization database: Connect to the public data API or regularly published pages of the IMF, World Bank, WTO, FAO and other institutions

• Industry database: configure real-time monitoring of price announcement pages of major commodity exchanges

(2) Unstructured data collection

• Multilingual news media: Use YiSight to support cross-language search capabilities in 50+ languages to automatically collect price reports from mainstream financial media in various countries.

• Social media and forums: Track price-related market expectations and public perception data

• Corporate financial reports and industry reports: Integrate industry price research reports in PDF and DOCX formats through the knowledge base import function

(3) AI-assisted data recognition

• AI automatically identifies collection paths: For data release pages with complex structures, the platform’s AI capabilities are used to automatically identify the location of price data fields.

• Intelligent cleaning and standardization: automatically clean outliers, unify measurement units, and output standardized price time series

04 · Index Compilation Methodology

A hierarchical weighted synthesis method is adopted to ensure the scientific nature and interpretability of the index:

3. Matching of core capabilities of YiSight platform

01 · Multilingual public opinion collection and price monitoring

The YiSight platform has automated collection capabilities covering 50+ languages, including Chinese, English, Arabic, and Southeast Asian languages, and can carry out the following special configurations for price index construction:

• Site targeting configuration:Configure exclusive collection sites for the Bureau of Statistics, Central Bank, and mainstream financial media for each target country, and support customized collection frequency (daily/weekly updates)

• Price vocabulary cross-language search:Input core concepts such as "inflation", "price index", "CPI" and "PPI", and the system will automatically translate into the target language and search simultaneously, eliminating language barriers

• Price change warning:Configure the "Volume Alert" for the price-related search plan. When the price news volume of a certain country suddenly increases, a reminder will be automatically pushed to capture price impact events.

• Sentiment analysis assistance:Track market expectations and reactions to price changes through public opinion sentiment analysis

02 · Knowledge base-driven price research system

Use the YiSight knowledge base function to build an exclusive knowledge system for regional and country price research:

• Historical data precipitation:Import price statistical reports and official data bulletins of each period into the knowledge base to form price data assets that can be continuously accumulated and intelligently retrieved.

• Thematic knowledge base classification:Establish databases by region (ASEAN/Middle East/Africa, etc.) and categories (energy/food/manufacturing) to support accurate retrieval

• Team sharing and collaboration:Research team members share sites and knowledge bases to avoid duplication of work and improve the reuse rate of data assets.

• Document batch import:Supports the import of PDF, DOCX, HTML and other formats, and quickly integrates structured data such as IMF annual reports and World Bank data files

03 · AI intelligent analysis and report generation

Based on the AI capabilities of DeepSeek's large model, the intelligent upgrade of price index research is achieved:

AI conversation—price attribution analysis

• Researchers can conduct multiple rounds of dialogue with AI based on knowledge bases and Internet searches to explore the underlying causes of price fluctuations in specific countries.

• Support cross-language concept correlation analysis: joint inference of a country's price data, policy text, and trade data

• Accurate traceability: AI replies mark citation sources to ensure the academic credibility of price attribution analysis

Agent Reports – regular price briefings

• Set regular tasks, and the system will automatically extract price hot spots in each region from multi-source information and generate a standardized "Regional Price Monthly Report"

• Supports designated report templates: a fixed report structure of "price trend summary + in-depth analysis of key countries + risk warning" can be configured

• Multi-format export: supports Word, PDF, and Markdown formats, including a citation list to meet academic standards.

• Support online search to supplement real-time data and combine it with historical data in the knowledge base to achieve combined analysis of short-term fluctuations and long-term trends.

4. Price Index Results Product System 01 · Data Products

02 · Research Report Products

• "Regional Country Price Monthly Report": Covers price dynamics of major global economies, attribution of hot events, and prediction of trends in the next period.

• "Thematic Price Research Report": in-depth analysis of specific regions or price shock events (such as food crises, energy sanctions)

• "Price Index Annual White Paper": annual price index methodology description, data quality report and compilation of academic results

• "Advisory Briefing": Concisely presents key price risks and policy recommendations for government decision-making departments

5. Project implementation plan

01 · Phased construction roadmap

02 · Suggestions on team division of labor

It is recommended to form a special working group and clarify the division of responsibilities:

6. Value proposition and expected benefits 01 · Academic value

• Fill the gap in domestic regional country price index research and form data assets with independent intellectual property rights

• Provide quantifiable, traceable, and comparable price research infrastructure for regional and national disciplines

• Support the efficient output of various types of academic results such as political reports, academic papers, and research series

• Promote the in-depth integration of disciplines and digital technology, and explore the new paradigm of "digital regional and national studies"

02 · Social and policy value

• Provide an independent and objective Chinese academic perspective for price monitoring in countries along the “Belt and Road”

• Assist the Ministry of Commerce, National Development and Reform Commission and other departments in conducting international price risk analysis and trade policy formulation

• Provide price environment assessment support for Chinese enterprises’ overseas investment decisions

• Enhance China’s voice and academic influence in the field of international price indexes

  
  

03 · The value of teaching and talent training

• Build a three-in-one graduate training model of "research data platform + practical projects + results publication"

• Provide students with a platform to access real international data and participate in empirical research to enhance their employment competitiveness

• Attract high-quality students from relevant majors and enhance the college’s enrollment competitiveness

  
  

7. Product quotation plan 01·Basic platform authorization

The YiSight regional country research platform provides a SaaS cloud version. Its main functions include: multilingual public opinion collection and site management (50+ languages), multi-modal search and visual analysis, AI summary and cross-language translation, team/personal knowledge base (supporting PDF, DOCX and other formats), AI dialogue (including DeepSeek large model, network search), agent report generation, regular briefing push, team dashboard and member management, and data large screen.

Please discuss the specific quotation with Yizhe Technology Business Team. The following is a reference framework:

02·Special value-added services for price index

In response to the construction needs of regional country price indexes, Yizhe Technology can provide the following special services:

Price index custom collection configuration:Yizhe technology engineers assist in the identification and configuration of collection paths for professional data sites such as national statistical bureaus.

Index report template customization:Customize exclusive monthly price reports and briefing templates according to the needs of the college, and generate standardized research reports with one click

Data standardization processing services:Provide technical guidance and tool support for price data cleaning, unit unification, and index compilation.

Scientific research cooperation and joint research:Support the college and Yizhe Technology to carry out joint projects and share data resources and technical capabilities

8. About Shanghai Yizhe Information Technology Co., Ltd. 01 · Company Profile

Shanghai Yizhe Information Technology Co., Ltd. is a national high-tech enterprise driven by independent research and development technology. It is at the leading level at home and abroad in many technical fields such as multi-lingual big data retrieval and analysis, machine translation, natural language processing, and multi-file format analysis.

The company is headquartered in Shanghai, with offices and branches in Nanjing, Beijing, Shenzhen, Zhengzhou, Wuhan, Changsha and other places, and can provide localized service support to universities across the country.

02 · Core product matrix

• YiSight regional country research platform:Multi-source public opinion collection + knowledge base + AI intelligent scientific research integrated platform

• YiCAT online translation management platform:Professional manual translation process management, supporting dozens of language pairs

• YiCorpus multifunctional corpus retrieval platform:Corpus construction, retrieval and academic analysis

• Qtrans document quick translation:Document-level machine translation tool, supporting batch processing

9. After-sales service guarantee 01 · Technical support

02 · Special services for colleges and universities

• Free training:Provide 1-2 days of platform operation and research method training

• Expert lectures:Experts in the field can be arranged to conduct special lectures for teachers and students of the college (determined through negotiation)

• School-enterprise cooperation:Provide a platform for school-enterprise cooperation to support student internships and joint projects

• Academic exchange:Jointly organize seminars, academic conferences, translation competitions and other activities

• Joint scientific research:Support cooperative scientific research and joint development of new products, and share results

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Regional country price index system

Machine-translated from the Chinese original 久章和一者联合助力 | 区域国别价格指数平台建设方案建议书 (published 2025-04-09). WeChat original ↗