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- From: liuyh@vis.toronto.edu (Yuanhui Liu)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
- Subject: Re: China's GNP and why Steven Lin is so biased?
- Message-ID: <93Jan24.133955est.122@orasis.vis.toronto.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 18:40:01 GMT
- Article-I.D.: orasis.93Jan24.133955est.122
- References: <1jrcrbINNaic@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
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- In article <1jrcrbINNaic@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> guowei@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Guo Wei) writes:
- >Newsgroups: soc.culture.china
- >Subject: Re: China's GNP
- >Summary:
- >Expires:
- >References: <1jo4c9INNd9o@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> <lm0u5hINNa5g@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- >Sender:
- >Followup-To:
- >Distribution: world
- >Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
- >Keywords:
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- >In article <lm0u5hINNa5g@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> stlin@stevelin.Eng.Sun.COM (Steven Lin) writes:
- >>In article <1jo4c9INNd9o@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> (Guo Wei) writes:
- >>
- [......]
- >
- >>
- >>If the CCP gave a number, that should be correct. No single country is
- >>forced to come up that number. There are common formula and factors used
- >>to compute the GNP. The government gave the number should have details.
- >>Counting on no tax policy, indeed the China GNP should be higher than
- >>that number. But, there is no way to come up severl times higher, based
- >>on the US tax rate 30% higher ma
- >
- >How do you know the higher number is given by CCP? I begin to doubt that you are
- >so biased that you just couldn't accept different opinions. Acutally, CCP and
- >mainland government never, ever uses the higher number. Most of these numbers
- >are given by Westerners because they are confused about the official GNP and
- >the reality. Mainland government always publishes the GNP number either in terms
- >of RMB or gives the euivalent USD according to official exchange rate(which is
- >about $380).t
- >>
-
- actually the CCP intentionally keep the official GNP low, say just
- below $400 in official exchange rate, so that they can get a lot
- loans from world bank et al. easily.
- >
- [......]
- >
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