The Xia-Shang Zhou Chronology Project was a five-year state-sponsored project, carried out between 1995–2000, to determine an absolute chronology of the Western Zhou dynasty and approximate chronologies of the Xia and Shang dynasties. At the end of the five years, the Project issued a provisional report entitled Report on the 1996–2000 Provisional Results of the Xia-Shang Zhou Chronology Project: Brief Edition detailing its results. A promised full report was finally published in 2022: Report on the Xia-Shang Zhou Chronology Project. Although numerous discoveries in the more than twenty years between the publications of the Brief Edition and the Report have revealed that the Project's absolute chronology of the Western Zhou is fundamentally flawed, and some of the problems are acknowledged by the Report, still the Report maintains the Project's chronology without any correction. In the review, I present four of these discoveries, from four different periods of the Western Zhou, discussing their implications for the Project's chronology. I conclude with a call for some sort of authoritative statement acknowledging the errors in the report.

夏商周年表项目是一个为期五年的国家资助项目，于1995年至2000年期间进行，旨在确定西周的绝对年表和夏商时期的大致年表。五年结束时，该项目发布了一份临时报告，题为《夏商周年代学项目1996-2000年临时结果报告：简要版》，详细介绍了其结果。一份承诺的完整报告终于在 2022 年出版：《夏商周年代学计划报告》。尽管《简编》与《报告》出版之间二十多年来的无数发现表明，该项目对西周的绝对年代学存在根本性缺陷，并且《报告》也承认了其中的一些问题，但《报告》仍然坚持认为项目的年表未经任何更正。在评论中，我介绍了来自西周四个不同时期的其中四项发现，讨论了它们对项目年代学的影响。最后，我呼吁做出某种权威声明，承认报告中的错误。