New regulation aims to improve China's statistics

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A new regulation for improving the authenticity and reliability of China's official data launched on Tuesday.

The new regulation stems from a decree signed by Premier Li Keqiang in June that called for standardization of statistical surveys from the source, and lists specifications on how to organize and carry out surveys.

The regulation stipulated measures to improve the efficiency and quality of statistical work and to reduce the burden on those undertaking the surveys.

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Under the new regulation, severe penalties will be imposed on officials and staff who intervene in government statistical work and manipulate or fabricate data.

By following up the national regulation, Liu Qingjun, an official in charge of the implementation of policies and laws with the statistical bureau of Shandong Province said the province will specify the national regulation into its own situation based on the local statistics.

In April, China set up a special law enforcement unit under the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) to prevent, investigate and punish data fabrication. Penalties raised by the newly enacted regulation will be an effective deterrent to the intervention in and falsification of statistics, he said.

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