Government and Policy

Nationwide crackdown on statistical forgery

By Jia Xu (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-06-03 19:08

A nationwide examination of statistical work will start soon, the xinhuanews.net reported Thursday.

Figures like gross domestic product (GDP), industry output, grain yield, income of urban and rural residents, etc, will be the focus of the examination.

The National Bureau of Statistics of China, Ministry of Supervision, and Ministry of Justice started examining the statistical process with the aim of rooting out deceptive acts and create trust and a transparent statistical working environment.

The examination will focus on the process of data collection, analysis methods, etc, to see whether there are any illegal statistics collections, fake figures, forgeries or arbitrary statistics publications, etc.