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We included original studies that assessed social cognition tools in Chinese MCI patients with controls, extracted data on study design, tools, domains, and results, and conducted a narrative synthesis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Six studies met the inclusion criteria, comprising 198 MCI participants and 197 healthy controls. The assessment tools covered three social cognition domains: empathy, facial emotion recognition, musical emotion recognition, and social perception. All studies reported significant impairments in MCI, particularly in negative emotion recognition (disgust, sadness, fear) and empathy. However, none reported reliability coefficients (e.g., Cronbach's \u03b1) or established diagnostic cut-off scores for the Chinese MCI population. Sample sizes were small (range 19\u201359 per MCI group), and all studies were single-center.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Evidence suggests that Chinese MCI patients show social cognition deficits across multiple domains, yet current tools are insufficiently validated and culturally adapted. 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