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Wall Street Journal - July 13, 2007
July 13, 2007
Full translation of a faxed statement from July 12, 2007, sent to The Wall Street Journal from the Beijing Statistics Department.
Beijing Statistics Department Reply to Wall Street Journal Beijing Office Enquiry
Recently, our bureau found through many survey reports published by China Development Brief that the Englishman Nick Young (Chinese name: Gao Yang, his presence in China is due to "a relative of his who has a post in China") has directly organized statistics surveys many times in China.
According to the thirty-second term of China's statistics law, all foreign organizations and individuals must apply and get approval if they want to conduct statistics surveys in China. According to the thirty-fifth term of the implementation details of the statistics law, foreign organizations and individuals must entrust qualified institutions to conduct the statistics surveys. Regulations of foreign-involved surveys by the national statistics bureau (please change to "National Bureau of Statistics") say that foreign organizations and individuals can't directly conduct market surveys or social research in China, nor can they conduct these activities through institutions which don't have licenses for foreign-involved surveys.
On July 4th, officials from Beijing Statistics Bureau made checks and inquiries on the suspect's illegal behavior according to the law. Nick Young acknowledged that he has directly organized statistics surveys in China many times and that his research program doesn't have approval. So the officials immediately requested Nick Young to cease his illegal research activities.
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