It's not conspiracy theory territory, Li Keqiang the country's premier actually admitted that many provinces fabricate statistics to look better to Beijing. And

It's not conspiracy theory territory, Li Keqiang the country's premier actually admitted that many provinces fabricate statistics to look better to Beijing. And there is tons of evidence that their statistics do not match reality. Realistic is China's economy cannot continue to defy gravity, the regular people aren't experiencing the miracle growth. Maybe the wealthy who have their hands in the pie, but for the other hundreds of millions of Chinese, there is no miracle.