Posted on 06/06/2022 8:34:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
China’s top disciplinary watchdog announced on May 31 that it has removed a former top official in eastern Jiangsu Province from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the regime’s public office.
Zhang Jinghua, former deputy CCP chief of Jiangsu, was accused of “faking economic figures for personal promotion and meddling in market activities in violation of relevant rules,” among other charges of corruption, according to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) in a notice on May 31. It did not provide any specifics for the accusation.
Zhang is one of the most recent CCP members of the 19th central committee—the CCP’s top governing body—to fall.
One day prior, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) held a virtual meeting in which its director, Kang Yi, said that the problem of statistical falsification still exists in China.
On May 27, the NBS stated that 126 lower-level officials in Hebei, Henan, and Guizhou provinces had been punished for fabricating statistical data.
This wave of purging data fabrication began in March when the CCDI wrote on its website that some local officials had falsified data to create an illusion of development and manipulated statistical data by “reminding” and ordering relevant departments to make the necessary changes.
Foreign investment banks have already cut their China growth forecasts after the regime’s COVID-19 lockdowns hit the economy of Shanghai hard, with Nomura predicting growth of 3.9 percent.
For the CCP, statistics have three functions, according to Wang He, a China current affairs commentator in a recent interview with the Chinese-language edition of The Epoch Times: to support decision-making, to serve politics, and to brainwash the people. But the first function is nominal, he said.
“To effectively support decision-making, the authenticity, timeliness, and completeness of statistical data must be of top priority,” Wang said.
But the norm in CCP officialdom, Wang said, is to use data to serve the party’s political purposes. He noted that fake data assists CCP officials in their promotion through the ranks, which in turn spurs them to continue forging data for further promotion.
“The CCP uses false data to fool the people that the situation in China is always great, as lies are a basic element of the CCP’s rule,” Wang said.
The recent purging of false data by the CCP now is again for political reasons, Wang added, rather than motivated by economic transparency, as the regime is in the critical months before the CCP’s 20th national congress to be held in autumn for political reshuffling.
The Chinese regime has long been criticized for massaging its economic data, including GDP figures, population, and other indicators.
Chinese premier Li Keqiang, then party secretary of northeastern Liaoning Province, reportedly said to Clark T. Randt, Jr., former U.S. ambassador to China, that China’s “GDP figures are ‘man-made’ and therefore unreliable,” over dinner on March 12, 2007, as disclosed by Wikileaks.
He also acknowledged the economic crisis facing China in 2020 when he told reporters at a presser on May 28 that “there are 600 million people whose monthly income is only 1,000 yuan ($140).”
China’s population is 1.439 billion; 600 million people is roughly 41.7 percent of the total population.
In January 2017, Chen Qiufa, then governor of Liaoning Province, confirmed at the provincial people’s congress that the cities and counties of Liaoning had problems with falsifying financial data from 2011 to 2014, as reported by the CCP’s mouthpiece Xinhua News Agency.
In January 2018, Inner Mongolia revealed that its economic data was substantially falsified—its 2016 industrial output was substantially inflated by 40 percent and that fake growth amounted to 290 billion yuan (roughly $43.5 billion).
In addition to Liaoning and Inner Mongolia, Jilin Province and Tianjin City were forced to revise their data after they were found to have inflated or manipulated economic statistics over the past few years, according to a Bloomberg report.
The Coming Collapse Of China
-——Gordon Chang
ruh roh
Commies lying? Say it isn’t so!
Ping.
RE: The Coming Collapse Of China
Yep, published 2001. I’ll probably be dead if it happens ( if ever ).
The CHICOM GDP numbers were always phony as a 3 dollar bill.
So they are going to blame the coming real estate bubble crash and other economic problems on corrupt officials lying, not them printing yuan and building ghost cities and non productive plants that sit idle.
After 2008, China printed a massive amount of money, making the FED look like hard core gold bugs in comparison.
The America haters still brag about China, how it’s economy is going to be bigger than the US soon. FAIL!
LEARN!
Next you are going to deny the Chinese built their own space station, sent their own rover to Mars ( only the second country to have done so), have far faster more hi tech, vastly superior trains than America, fer superior airports etc, etc.
None of that happened. According to determined, deranged, paid Ukraine trolls like you anyway. Ever considered another line of business?
Chuckle.
You believe the CHICOM economic numbers. You are a clueless clown. And China ripped off from the US and US companies a lot of the tech you brag about. When are you moving to China, your beloved motherland?
The Chinese cannot build vastly superior trains by “stealing” inferior American train technology. Nor can anyone else, Mister Troll.
Come to think of it, what does Ukraine have as compared to the Chinese?
Plus you don't land rovers on Mars or build your own space station, like the Chinese have done, by stealing from anybody.
Next you'll be telling us America stole space technology from the Russians, since Russia was the first to go to space, first to send man to space, first to send a satellite to space, etc etc.
Read some history troll.
China fan boy, the CHICOMS’s stole a lot of high speed train technology from Japan. The CHICOM’s steal an enormous amount of research from AMERICAN universities, clown. Stealing tech is not the same as developing it, no more than stealing money makes one a financial trading genius.
The US kicked the Soviets asses in the space race. The winner of a “race” is not the guy who’s leading at the first turn Russia fan boy. Go learn some history.
Did they run over him with a tank?
In post #11, you claimed and I quite:
“And China ripped off from the US and US companies”
Now they stole the technology from the Japanese? You can't even get your story straight.
Did the Japanese complain to you about it?
Aren't you getting more desperate by the minute?
Chuckle.
Is that why America was forced to depend on the Russians to even get to the Space Station from 2011 to 2020?
We were so “ahead” we had to pay the Russians huge amounts to carry our astronauts to the space station for 10 years.
That's some “advancement “ right there.
Chuckle
Joe, Ali punched you one time too many in the head.
Did it ever occur to you that your 50 foot tall Chinese supermen could have stolen different tech from different countries? No! That would be too difficult for you to figure out all by yourself.
Joe, pay attention to what’s happening in the world. An American private company is beating Russia in space tech. Can your Russian supermen launch their rockets and have them return to their launch pads? No. Do they have the lift capability of Musk’s SpaceX’s Super Heavy> No.
“Won’t see him no more .”
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