UPI.com, 4 May 2009, MARTIN WALKER
WASHINGTON, May 4 (UPI) -- The official figures say the Chinese economy, bolstered by the announcement last November of a massive $586 billion stimulus package by the Beijing government, grew in the first quarter of this year at an annual rate of 6.1 percent.
The question remains how far those figures can be trusted because some official Chinese statistics have proved questionable in the past and because some crucial indicators suggest a far less optimistic picture.
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