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by yusuke10 3035 days ago
FAKE gdp. most likely 0% gdp growth, if not negative.

China’s 2015 GDP Was Exaggerated By Fake Data, Analysis Shows (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-01/china-s-2...)

Another Chinese city admits 'fake' economic data (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-economy-data/anothe...)

This Is How China's Regions Fare in the Fake GDP Data Stakes (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-19/this-is-h...)

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This account has only used HN to engage in political battle—in this case national battle about China. Regardless of what you're battling for, that's an abuse of the site as explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, so we've banned the account. Please don't create accounts to break the site rules with.
Two of your links suggest gdp growth of around 6% still.

They fake data to move gdp fractions of a percent.

Outright lying doesn't help further your argument. There's some excellent independent estimates of Chinas gdp out there.