Leak of economic data subject of investigation
By Zhang Ran | China Daily | Updated: 2009-07-17 07:48
The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) will investigate the leaking of second quarter economic data before it was supposed to be published yesterday, Li Xiaochao, NBS spokesman. said yesterday at a press conference.
China's economy grew by 7.9 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, the Beijing Times reported yesterday, citing an unnamed official who revealed the figures on a Beijing-based forum.
Similar rumors of a 7.1 percent pace of growth for the first half circulated in local financial markets on Wednesday.
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