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So nearly 40 years ago, many here weren't even born.

Do you trust Bloomberg? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-25/china-s-l...

Take a look around "中國 GDP 灌水", lead to this latest research claim that China's GDP has been misrepresent after 2008.

CITE: Relative to the official numbers, we estimate that GDP growth from 2008-2016 is 1.7 percentage points lower and the investment and savings rate in 2016 is 7 percentage points lower.

Ref: https://www.brookings.edu/bpea-articles/a-forensic-examinati...

I'm well aware of the history, thanks for the link. We are in a comment section of an article on this latest print and I was responding to a comment which says it doesn't trust the official figures.

Provided evidence to the contrary.

Do you think this GDP number is wrong and if so by how much?

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