Global Times (China): Weight of numbers hard on China's stats

 

Paul Cheung is the Singapore-born director of the United Nations Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, and a senior advisor to the Chinese government on official statistics. How does he see external doubts about China's official statistics? Is statistical work conducted by NGOs a threat to official statistics? Global Times reporter Chen Chenchen interviewed Cheung on these issues.

 

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