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The 5 Chinese Economic Indicators That Experts Trust

Mamta BadkarJan 18, 2013, 09:35 IST

China Photos/Getty ImagesWhen China announced better than expected trade data last week, a chorus of critics popped up again to question the validity of the numbers.

Some used a 1930's mathematical tool called Benford's Law to argue that the data was unreliable.

But China hit back defending its numbers.

In fact, every time China unleashes its economic indicators we see this debate pop up.

And with the country unleashing its first massive data dump for the year tonight, we thought it would be a good time to rerun our feature on the most reliable Chinese economic indicators according to the experts.