Myth-Busting China's Numbers Quotes

“electricity consumption, rail cargo and bank loans.”
― Matthew Crabbe, Myth-Busting China's Numbers: Understanding and Using China's Statistics

“fourth quarter edition in 2006 of the China Economic Quarterly. One of the headline findings of that research summed up in the article was that real retail sales in China in 2005 were at most about half as much as indicated by the commonly cited official “total retail sales of consumer goods” number.”
― Matthew Crabbe, Myth-Busting China's Numbers: Understanding and Using China's Statistics