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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 6115600" data-attributes="member: 48469">Well, well, well.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-economy-data-missing-096cac9a?mod=hp_lead_pos7[/URL]<h3>How Bad Is China’s Economy? The Data Needed to Answer Is Vanishing</h3>5/4/2025&quot;Not long ago, anyone could comb through a wide range of official data from China. Then it started to disappear. Land sales measures, foreign investment data and unemployment indicators have gone dark in recent years. Data on cremations and a business confidence index have been cut off. Even official soy sauce production reports are gone.In all, Chinese officials have stopped publishing hundreds of data points once used by researchers and investors, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. In most cases, Chinese authorities haven’t given any reason for ending or withholding data. But the missing numbers have come as the world’s <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-economy-excess-debt-gdp-46c69585?mod=article_inline" target="_blank">second biggest economy has stumbled</a> under the weight of excessive debt, a crumbling real-estate market and other troubles—spurring heavy-handed efforts by authorities to control the narrative.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 6115600, member: 48469"] Well, well, well. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-economy-data-missing-096cac9a?mod=hp_lead_pos7[/URL] [HEADING=2]How Bad Is China’s Economy? The Data Needed to Answer Is Vanishing[/HEADING] 5/4/2025 "Not long ago, anyone could comb through a wide range of official data from China. Then it started to disappear. Land sales measures, foreign investment data and unemployment indicators have gone dark in recent years. Data on cremations and a business confidence index have been cut off. Even official soy sauce production reports are gone. In all, Chinese officials have stopped publishing hundreds of data points once used by researchers and investors, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. In most cases, Chinese authorities haven’t given any reason for ending or withholding data. But the missing numbers have come as the world’s [URL='https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-economy-excess-debt-gdp-46c69585?mod=article_inline']second biggest economy has stumbled[/URL] under the weight of excessive debt, a crumbling real-estate market and other troubles—spurring heavy-handed efforts by authorities to control the narrative." [/QUOTE]

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