New: Capture Critical Chinese Insights with News API Sentiment & Topics

In today’s fast-paced world, access to relevant, high-quality data is critical for monitoring media intelligence, business risk, and financial opportunities. That’s why we’re excited to announce that our News API news topics, categories, and sentiment analysis features now support both Simplified and Traditional Chinese sources—bringing deeper insights from one of the most influential regions in the world right to your platform.

Why this matters

This new update allows your platform, whether it monitors brand mentions, risks to organizations or the latest market trend, to get deeper insights from across China’s news sites. Now you can get topical news data feeds and sentiment-based data from Chinese sources—a language critical for anyone monitoring global markets, risks, or media narratives.

Here’s how this expansion benefits different solutions:

Media intelligence platforms

Gain a competitive edge with deeper context from Chinese media sources.

• Monitor trending topics and narratives as they emerge in China.
• Easily surface hyper-relevant micro-verticals by filtering for specific IPTC categories and topics (L1, L2 & L3).
• Leverage sentiment analysis to track public opinion shifts on brands, events, or industries in China.

Risk intelligence platforms

Whether your platforms run AML, KYC, ESG or due diligence screenings, now you can deepen your global risk coverage by capturing highly targeted business risks in Chinese media.

• Uncover mentions of entities, individuals, or sectors tied to regulatory, compliance, or legal issues.
• Focus on granular risk categories to reduce false positives and resource waste.
• Use sentiment to detect adverse media, negative trends, or early warning signals around partners, suppliers, or targets.

Financial monitoring platforms

Level up your market and competitive intelligence insights and spot market opportunities with real-time insights from China’s vast business landscape.

• Tap into Chinese-language news covering M&A, market expansions, policy shifts, and competitor activity.
• Drill down into topics like “Mergers and Acquisitions” or “Economy, Business, and Finance” for maximum relevance.
• Analyze sentiment to understand market reactions and business confidence.

What’s new: Granular topics classification in Chinese

This feature enhancement brings the power of IPTC Level 2 and Level 3 Topics to Chinese sources, enabling users to: 

• Narrow down searches to specific micro-verticals
• Capture all relevant data without drowning in noise
• Save resources by reducing the need for complex queries
• Maintain consistency with standardized IPTC classification
• Customise your data – suggest new topics for custom coverage

Example use case: Market intelligence

Instead of a broad search, simply target:
topic:”mergers and acquisitions” language:chinese

This ensures you capture only the most relevant Chinese news articles about M&A activities—perfect for competitive and market intelligence teams.

Sentiment analysis, now in Chinese

Our News API sentiment tagging—categorizing content as positive, negative, or neutral—is now extended to Chinese news articles. Whether tracking reputational risks or analyzing market confidence, you can now add emotional context to the headlines and stories shaping China’s business and political landscape.

Available by default—no extra steps needed

Are you a customer? Then you’re in luck. This update is automatically available to all News API customers. Chinese sources now seamlessly integrate with your existing queries, filters, and workflows—unlocking a new layer of global coverage with zero configuration.

Ready to capture smarter insights from China?

If you’re not a customer, get in touch with one of our trusted data experts to plug in and start generating unique insights from the Chinese market. 

With this expansion, you can stay ahead in a region that’s too important to ignore—whether you’re tracking online social listening, assessing risks, or identifying the next market opportunity in China.

For more information or to help get started and make the most of our News API with implementation, reach out to our data experts.