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Following reviews of data irregularities, the World Bank recently releases its updated Doing Business in which China's position has been downgraded. The World Bank has said that China's ranking would have been lower by seven notches in the index for 2018. Besides China, the ranking of Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Azerbaijan has also gone down in the corrected list. In August, the World Bank had decided to pause the publication of its Doing Business report following a number of irregularities regarding changes to data in previous reports.