BEIJING -- Some of China's local governments are bumping up economic data, Ning Jizhe, director of China's National Bureau of Statistics, wrote Thursday in the Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily.
A committee headed by Chinese President Xi Jinping in October approved reforms to boost the accuracy of economic data. In a rare acknowledgment of the country's problem with inflating figures, Ning criticized those responsible for breaking the law and going against the party's principles.
