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CHINA: Also re: the previous bullet:

- Lights Are On but No One's Working: How Local Governments Are Faking

Coronavirus Recovery (Caixin)

- Local companies and officials are fraudulently boosting electricity

consumption and other metrics in order to meet tough new back-to-work targets as

the spread of Covid-19 in China wanes, a Caixin investigation has found. As new

coronavirus cases in China slowed in recent weeks, local governments in

less-affected regions pushed companies and factories to return to work,

typically by assigning concrete targets to district officials. Company insiders

and local civil servants told Caixin that, under pressure to fulfill quotas they

could not otherwise meet, they deftly cooked the books.

- Link: https://tinyurl.com/shwyqou