10.12
·Reported
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
On October 12, the bond section homepage of Sina Finance published an article titled "Notes 20261012 — YM Injects Liquidity, the Bond Market Bows First." In it, the y-axis of the chart showing Taiwan's real GDP growth rate from 2022 to 2026 was inverted, with 0% at the top and 12% at the bottom, making a trend that originally rose from 1.08% to 11.05% appear as a continuous decline. Netizens spotted the error.
07.05
·Official claim
·Importance II
·Sources 1
·China
Wang Shunyong, deputy head of the National Bureau of Statistics, said on July 5 that new growth drivers contributed more than 40% to economic growth in the first half of the year, increasingly shouldering the burden of China's economy; this claim contrasts with data showing a contraction in the construction and real estate sectors and has drawn skepticism.
2026.04
·Hearsay
·Importance III
·Sources 2
·China
According to online reports, since April 2026, multiple counties and prefecture-level cities, in a push to meet marriage registration targets, have been taking elderly couples in their 80s and 90s from surrounding villages who had never registered their marriages to civil affairs bureaus to retroactively register them; some of the elderly do not even have second-generation ID cards.
01.20
·Verified
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·Shuangjiang County
On January 20, 2026, the Office of the Central Special Mechanism for Combating Formalism and Reducing Burdens at the Grassroots Level, together with the General Office of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, announced: from 2022 to 2024, 34 above-designated-size industrial enterprises in Shuangjiang County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province, cumulatively falsified their reported output value by 3.5 billion yuan.
2022.10
·Reported
·Importance IV
·Sources 3
·China
University of Chicago scholar Martinez, using satellite nighttime light data, found that annual GDP growth in authoritarian countries is overstated by an average of about 35%, and that China's figure may have been overstated by about one third over the past two decades.
2018.01.11
·Reported
·Importance V
·Sources 2
·天津市滨海新区
In January 2018, Tianjin Binhai New Area switched its GDP statistical basis from registered to local, revising its 2016 GDP from 1,000.231 billion yuan to 665.4 billion yuan, a drop of about one third; the Tianjin Municipal Bureau of Statistics said this had no impact on the city's overall GDP.