Stats bureau to clean up local stats
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On Thursday, National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) spokeswoman Liu Aihua confirmed that provincial governments willchange the way they collect and report economic data.
Some context: Local governments often inflate their growth numbers to score political points.
More context: (In)famously, t...