Xi Jinping doesn’t trust China’s economic stats
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Everybody knows that China’s economic data is unreliable.
We are sick of it. And so is Xi Jinping. That’s why he is taking steps to improve it.
The proposed solution: Centralization. The National Bureau of Statistics will now take charge of calculating local GDP and other economic indica...