Some of the major obstacles standing against an accurate analysis of China’s industrial
productivity are, undoubtedly, the accuracy and availability of official Chinese statistics.
China’s Statistical System is originally inherited from the Soviet Material Product System.
Since the last two decades, along with the gradual alignment with the international System of
National Accounts (SNA), the sectoral coverage of Chinese data has been subject to several
changes. China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) formerly the State Statistics Bureau
(SSB) made significant revisions in 1984 and in 1994 to make Chinese data more in line with
the international standards of international classification (ISIC). Besides, during the pre