Ministry admits errors in report
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The report's ambiguous figures were revised on Tuesday and its completion date changed to March 25, 2011.
"Because of technical mistakes, the figures posted on this webpage on March 28 were wrong," the ministry said at the end of the revised 2010 report.
Liu Xutao, a professor with the Beijing-based Chinese Academy of Governance, said the errors revealed that careless omissions still exist in the work of some government departments.
He said misstatements of dates will have few, if any, bad consequences. Even so, other government bodies should draw a lesson from the errors committed by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
"Government departments at all levels should work to make public information more transparent and to ensure that their statistics and statements are true, timely and accurate," Liu said.
Reports should be checked repeatedly before being released, he said.
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