Chinese Statistical Fakers Punished

Chinese companies are being punished for falsifying statistics they report to government statistical bureaus. Since last year the National Bureau of Statistics has been checking local statistics for falsification and misreporting. The Bureau has caught 97 companies in five provinces who will be assessed penalties, have their names published on a black list, and be reported to the "Credit China" web site and a national credit information sharing system. A list of 45 companies in Liaoning, Anhui, Fujian, Shandong, Sichuan, and Guizhou guilty of severe statistical falsification was published with the article. Another 54 companies have a second chance before they will be sanctioned.