2016-01-26nytimes.com

The Communist Party's anticorruption commission announced late Tuesday that it was looking into the head of the country's statistics agency over what it called "serious violations."

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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.



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