reliable is the official data that we're getting well this is a very big point of contention for everyone and it's inherently because the chinese statistics officials are unable to don't have the capacity to manage inflate it figures that come from the local departments now researchers say chinese the chinese economy is actually about 12 percent smaller than official figures declare and it's also overstated its g.d.p. growth by about 2 percentage points annually especially in recent years but on the other hand there are other observers who save the recent lowering earlier this year office g.d.p. focus shows that the government is willing to fix those data problems so. if the government has the need to fiddle with figures i mean what is china's