An outspoken Communist Party official in China has confirmed long-held suspicions that GDP data was being massaged and exaggerated by regional party leaders to show higher economic growth, in the process “squandering social resources.” In a brutally honest and searing speech recently, Wang Yang, the reformist-minded party secretary of Guangdong province in southern China, laid bare the dishonest m
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