Chinese data

Learning to trust China's economic data

On the whole, China's statistics bureau produces numbers that are generally reliable, but it pays to know which are more accurate than others.

Ma Jiantang, director of the National Bureau of Statistics

Lillian Liu

January 25, 2013

China’s official data often invites scepticism and criticism regarding its accuracy. In fact, most of the statistics are on the whole reliable and useful, though it is true that some are inaccurate due to problems with their methodologies.

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