China’s top statistics authority has called on six provinces to curb the falsification of statistical data. As the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced last Thursday, a series of special audits between the end of July and the beginning of August revealed an increased incidence of data manipulation. According to a report in the business newspaper Caixin, the six provinces affected are Shaanxi, Hebei, Hunan, Heilongjiang, Guizhou, and Henan.