{"id":523475,"date":"2026-07-13T07:53:39","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/523475\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T07:53:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:53:39","slug":"gao-shanwen-economist-who-questioned-chinas-gdp-data-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/523475\/","title":{"rendered":"Gao Shanwen, economist who questioned China&#8217;s GDP data, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/life-arts\/obituaries\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Obituaries<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Former central bank adviser&#8217;s blunt remarks on world&#8217;s No. 2 economy drew scrutiny<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/8\/6.jpeg\" alt=\"20260708 gao shanwen\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Gao Shanwen, an outspoken Chinese economist, is pictured here attending a forum in Beijing in 2009. \u00a9 Reuters<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">HONG KONG &#8212; Chinese macroeconomist and former central bank adviser Gao Shanwen, best known for alleging that China had overstated its gross domestic product data, has died, according to local media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Obituaries Former central bank adviser&#8217;s blunt remarks on world&#8217;s No. 2 economy drew scrutiny Gao Shanwen, an outspoken&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,4413,3105,7126,3914,219,62051,12410,111,139,69,14904,259207,1299],"class_list":["post-523475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-chinas","tag-data","tag-dies","tag-economist","tag-economy","tag-gao","tag-gdp","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-questioned","tag-shanwen","tag-who"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}