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Correcting records, literally

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The knives are out for local officials who juke economic stats. Violators will be disciplined. And where it occurs, promotion will be vetoed for local cadres-in-charge.
That’s according to the new implementing rules for the Statistics Law that Premier Li just signed into existence. The previous...