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Local governments inflate revenue to hit KPIs

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Local governments are inflating their fiscal revenue data. Per the National Audit Office’s (NAO) 2025 budgetary implementation audit report – published June 24 – 21 provinces and municipalities artificially inflated fiscal revenue last year by a combined RMB 60 billion.

Local finance bureaus did th...