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China's Xinmao Group will press ahead with a 1 billion-euro (US$1.3 billion) bid for Dutch cable maker Draka, but warned that the timing of a competing offer from Italy's Prysmian could yet derail its takeover plan. Draka dismissed the Chinese group's latest overture as ...
The country's top land watchdog has ordered local authorities to rein in rapid rises in land prices and pledged to crack down on the hoarding of land, as the country struggles to contain its overheated property market. Cities that failed to allocate more than 70 percent of their ...
Local governments across China should continue to implement strictly tightening measures to curb property speculation and monitor closely an increasingly overheated land bidding market in some parts of the country, the land regulator has said as it vowed to keep land prices ...
Shanghai's new home market rebounded last week to register double-digit growth in volume and price from a week earlier. A total of 273,000 square meters of new homes, excluding those built for relocated residents under urban redevelopment plans, were sold across the city during ...
China's land regulators urged local land authorities late Sunday to take concrete measures against excessive growth in the country's land prices in some Chinese cities and crack down on illegal behavior, such as land hoarding, to ensure the implementation of the government's ...
The price of property in China will continue to rise in 2011, but the rate of growth will slow down. A leading real estate research institute said on Friday that prices will increase by 8 to 9 percent next year, but an improved demand-and-supply relationship, as well as the ...
Property owners are not allowed to raise rents without first reaching an agreement with tenants during the contract period and the per capita leasing space should at least equal the minimum standard set by local governments, according to a recent regulation released by the ...
A residential apartment block stands grimly in the darkness on the southern bank of the Pearl River in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province where only a few of the apartments have lights on at 9 pm. Sources said photos of such dimly lit apartment buildings are proof that developers and ...
A new report revealing the potential size of China's housing market bubbles, coupled with price control measures announced by the national regulatory body, sent share prices for key property developers tumbling Thursday. The report, published Wednesday by the Chinese Academy of ...
Property prices in 70 major Chinese cities rose 0.3 percent in November month on month and 7.7 percent year on year, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Friday. November was the third consecutive month prices rose, after a 0.2-percent rise in October and a 0.5-percent ...
China's home appliance replacement program has been an incentive for consumers to spend 112.69 billion yuan (US$16.9 billion) since it was launched in June 2009, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said Thursday. As of Thursday, the sales volume of home appliances under the government ...
New homes in major Chinese cities are overpriced by an average of 30 percent, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said in its annual housing report released yesterday. Tracking the price of new homes in non-prime locations in 35 large and medium-sized cities in September, the ...
Greenland Group will build the world's third-tallest building in Wuhan, Hubei Province, at a cost of 30 billion yuan (US$4.5 billion). The 606-meter Wuhan Greenland Center, planned to be completed in five years, will only be dwarfed by the 632-meter Shanghai Tower, scheduled to ...
New home prices are rising throughout the country, but at a slower pace than last year due to China's tightening policies aimed at reining in property speculation, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said in its annual economic report released yesterday. However, the report ...
Trial operations of a property tax will be launched in Shanghai and Chongqing early next year, according to the Economic Observer, which cited unidentified "authoritative" sources. In Chongqing, the tax will be mainly levied on high-end apartments and villas while in Shanghai ...
Shanghai's existing housing index edged up 0.2 percent in November from October to extend its gains for the third straight month. The index, which monitors price fluctuations of existing houses, added 5 points to 2,558 in November, according to a latest report released by ...
Only seven of the 78 state-owned firms whose core business is not real estate have pulled out of the property market despite a central government order more than eight months ago demanding that they withdraw from real estate development, China Securities Journal reported ...
Returns in Asia property market may slacken in 2011, but beyond that price growth is expected to resume. House prices in Asia have doubled in many cases in the past two years. Regulations increasingly clamp down on property markets to prevent bubbles forming, such as with tighter ...
Real estate developers in China may have a capital source of 7 trillion yuan ($1.05 trillion) this year, the China Securities Journal reported Wednesday, citing an analyst with Haitong Securities. A total of 5.69 trillion yuan has flooded to Chinese property developers over the ...
China's overseas house purchasing power is becoming more prosperous as it is expected to hit 5 billion yuan ($750 million) in 2010. However, most of the well-heeled purchasers don't know how to evade risks when they grab properties in Western countries, China Economic Net ...
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China's reform leading group holds first meeting
China's reform leading group holds first meeting
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Bill Gates talks nuclear
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Xinhua Feature: World's political, business leaders gather in Davos for WEF
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