Gao’s sin? Saying that China may have grown just 2% over the last two or three years, less than half the rate Xi’s government claims. The reason Gao is allegedly being silenced is for shining a brighter-than-usual spotlight on one of the biggest perception problems facing Xi’s Communist Party: that China routinely cooks the GDP books.

During the Third Session of the 14th Jiangsu Provincial People’s Congress on 19 January, Governor of Jiangsu Xu Kunlin revealed that the Province’s GDP totalled ¥13.7 trillion in 2024, representing an increase of 5.

KEY TAKEAWAYS China met its annual 5% GDP growth target for 2024, thanks to the stimulus measures that buoyed economic activity in the fourth quarter.According to the country's National Bureau of Statistics,