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Revised GDP data as open to question as before

China’s statistics bureau last week announced changes to how its GDP figures are compiled. In principle, the shift should improve the precision of the data. In practice, the changes to historical real growth rates are small and questions about the accuracy of the official data loom as large as ever.

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