Inflating local growth numbers is so endemic that reported provincial GDP growth data, when added up, are always higher than the national growth data, a mathematical impossibility. And, even when they do not doctor the numbers, local officials can game the system in another way.
夸大本地经济增长数字的做法是如此流行，以致把这些数字加起来往往会高于国家总体增长数字——这在数学上显然是行不通的。而即便他们没有对数字做手脚，地方官员也可以用另一种方式来钻系统的空子。