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Entro, is a peer review article enough? If you read publications like The Economist, there is growing scepticism with China's reported growth figures.

per http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043951X01000621

What is happening to China's GDP statistics?


Thomas G. RawskiCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author

Department of Economics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA

Available online 19 January 2002.

Abstract

This paper argues that official Chinese statistics contain major exaggerations of real output growth beginning 1998. The standard data contain numerous inconsistencies. Chinese commentaries castigate widespread falsification at lower levels and question the autheticity of figures emanating from the central statistical authorities. The author speculates that cumulative GDP growth during 1997/2001 was no more one-third of official claims, and possibly much smaller.