President Xi orders fraudulent Liaoning Province to get real over economic data
Updated 10:59, 28-Jun-2018
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Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged northeast China’s Liaoning Province to abandon its habit of fabricating economic data and to instead depend on the real economy for a new round of development.
Xi Jinping with national lawmakers from Liaoning Province at the ongoing annual session of the National People's Congress, March 7, 2017.  /Xinhua Photo

Xi Jinping with national lawmakers from Liaoning Province at the ongoing annual session of the National People's Congress, March 7, 2017.  /Xinhua Photo

Xi joined a panel discussion with lawmakers from the scandal-dogged province at the ongoing annual session of the National People’s Congress.
Li Xi, secretary of the provincial Party Committee of Liaoning Province, acknowledged that Liaoning had a nasty history of fraud. One town reported a fiscal revenue of 290 billion yuan (42 billion US dollars), whereas the real figure was 1.6 million yuan. Another Liaoning city claimed to have 1,600 enterprises above a government-designated size, though it actually only had 281.
Xi Jinping at a panel discussion with national lawmakers from Liaoning Province at the ongoing annual session of the National People's Congress, March 7, 2017. /Xinhua Photo

Xi Jinping at a panel discussion with national lawmakers from Liaoning Province at the ongoing annual session of the National People's Congress, March 7, 2017. /Xinhua Photo

Chinese President Xi said that this “kind of habit should not continue and must resolutely stop.”
In January, the People’s Daily reported Liaoning Governor Chen Qiufa admitting at a meeting with provincial lawmakers that city and county governments in the province fabricated fiscal numbers from 2011 to 2014.
China’s Finance Ministry said the case distorted the central government’s estimation of the province and affected its decision making.
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