China’s push against data fabrication has been ‘greatly strengthened’ after the practice was added to the Communist Party’s disciplinary regulations last month, according to the statistics bureau.
China paused releasing unemployment figures for the 16-24 and 25-59 age groups this week, with hundreds of data series released by statistics bureaus at different levels of the government having already been discontinued in recent years.
Beijing has long pledged to improve the quality of its economic data, with a particular focus this year due to the fifth national economic census, with the statistics bureau starting inspections this week.
China has released pork from its state reserves this month, with prices having surged by more than 50 per cent compared to a year earlier, raising inflation concerns.
China will officially launch its fifth national economic census next year, with the national statistics agency chief promising efforts will be made to prevent and punish data fraud.