Around the middle of 2018, officials in China ordered various media outlets not to print any bad news about the Chinese economy, and by fall, official Chinese economic bureaus were either withholding the reporting of some economic statistics that had long been issued each month or changing the way certain statistics were calculated in order to augment the figures. The marked reticence to discuss the economy suggests China’s leaders were quite concerned about a slowdown in the growth of the Chinese economy. We have observed several actions by Beijing to help revive China Now.