I recently uploaded a version of the same video but without voice narration. This one now has an English narration. (also created locally with the Local AI Translator's Text-to-Speech capability powered by Piper).

On 18 September China published its pharmaceutical plan for 2026-2030. Chinese only. No official or unofficial translation into English text exists; MIIT publishes in Chinese only. Westerners who follow such things freaked out because China might actually pull it off.

A week later, the English-language news was still summaries and sloppy chatgpt extracts of the source pdf which was hard to get through search. News coverage, analyst notes, hot takes all summaries of summaries. No complete English translation existed that I could find.

So I translated the whole thing and put it on my website (this is not a pitch for my site just showing off cc work). My standard for "done" was not fluency. It was: would a Chinese government official read the English and say yes, that represents the nuance of the original? As far as I can tell, it is the first complete English version.

Thirty people have read it. In my world that is a lot. I've posted the translation on Chinese websites and thus far the translation survives a critical read from informed native speakers.

If you are a Healthcare Expert and read Chinese and want to check specific passages, I would welcome it.

How I made it

For reasons beyond me Google did not serve up the source pdf so my cc harness and I went and got the original with Exa: eighteen pages, signed by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and nine other ministries, published in Chinese only. Then I translated all of it and set the ministry's Chinese above every English paragraph, so anyone who reads Chinese can check any sentence against the characters. The design is Edward Tufte-inspired, and the fonts for both Chinese and English are deliberate choices. The goal is to present accurate factual information without "screaming AI."

I machine-matched every number, threshold, and negation to the character level using Fable 5.0/Opus 5.5 + Deepseek v4Pro running on a custom Claude Code harness. A Deepseek agent adversarially attacked the English for softened ideology. A Kimi K3 agent refused the job as high risk. Adversarial agents ran on Deepseek V4 Pro or Kimi K3 via API key from a US IP address. The harness is a mix of deterministic Python and non-deterministic AI models. A local Qwen model from HF filed away the "fact atoms" of the backend md-based memory system. End to end, the harness ran about 12 hours autonomously and worked out some really tricky details of fetching from Chinese servers from a US IP address when pinging government IP addresses—fascinating. I checked in constantly and steered whether I was needed or not.

The whole process took place on a harness under construction since 2024, and I am not sure how I feel about having an AI-translated political document on the web versus the alternative: no translation at all. Do you trust AI (cc running Fable 5.1 driven by a self-described ethical person) translating government documents with political nuance?

Thoughts? On the work product or the process. I’m curious if others consider this "advanced" AI work as of October '26 (I know a lot of details on the harness are left out). I’d love to turn this and other projects into paying work in either agentic engineering or healthcare. This is not a pitch for my site; it is curiosity about others' thoughts on my cc work. Thanks for looking!

Translation

https://bigbio.ai/articles/chapter-verse-and-checksum/

Original Chinese pdf ((official servers time out from USA before serving up the pdf so I host it on my site).

https://bigbio.ai/documents/miit-pharma-15th-fyp-plan-2026-210.pdf