A Chinese province admitted to cooking the books. The governor of Liaoning, in the north-east of the country, said that dodgy data had painted an overly rosy picture of the industrial region’s economic performance from 2011 to 2014. The confession will fuel long-standing doubts about the accuracy of China’s economic statistics.
Cook the books: 做假账
Dodgy:可疑的
Overly:过于
Rosy:乐观的
Confession:供认
Fuel:使……加剧
Long-standing:存在已久的