Lucy Hornby is deputy bureau chief for the Financial Times in China, where she has lived and worked for almost 20 years. She covers politics, the environment and energy issues, as well as Mongolia. She has a special fondness for the mysteries of shadow banking. Prior to joining the FT, Lucy covered China for Reuters, and energy markets in Singapore and Latin America for Dow Jones and Energy Intelligence. If she ever makes it to Macao she will have reported from all of China’s provinces and regions.
China’s anti-corruption watchdog has highlighted fake economic data in the Northern provinces of Inner Mongolia and Jilin, in the country’s grain heartland.