China to issue unified local, national GDP numbers amid data scepticism

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will unify the way it calculates provincial economic output from early 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics said, amid scepticism about the reliability of Chinese data.The statistical bureau will lead the data reform by formulating the method for calculating gross domestic product (GDP) and standardising a unified accounting system before publishing the results, Ning Jizhe, head of the National Bureau of Statistics, said in a statement."Implementing the reform of..