Inquiry in China Adds to Doubt Over Reliability of Its Economic Data

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"The international credibility of China's G.D.P. figures is anyway very low, so this probably is not a severe blow," said Diana Choyleva, the chief economist and head of research at Lombard Street Research, an economic analysis group in London. Lombard estimates that China's gross domestic product grew 3.2 percent last year, not the 6.9 percent that the National Bureau of Statistics claims.