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China’s wealthy swap real estate for insurance, gold as retirement looms

Since 2020, Li Jiang, a veteran manufacturing entrepreneur from Guangdong, has been selling off his properties one by one –…

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China housing market gets VAT relief on resales but demand outlook stays subdued

China will lower value-added tax (VAT) on individual home resales from January 1, but while the measure has drawn interest…

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Opinion | China’s property market isn’t so much collapsing as being reconfigured

For years, China Vanke was the property industry’s model pupil: prudent, reliable and seemingly immune to the reckless borrowing that…

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Opinion | China’s Politburo swaps emergency economic surgery for preventive care

The recently concluded Politburo meeting in Beijing marked a profound strategic recalibration of China’s economic compass. Moving decisively past the…

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Opinion | How China could solve its consumption conundrum

China’s most effective tool to revive consumption may be the simplest: a one-off distribution of 3,000 yuan (US$424) per person…

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The View | Why China Vanke’s debt woes have barely made a ripple in markets

HSBC, whose relatively bullish view on China’s residential property sector ranks as one of the bravest calls in markets, said…

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As I see it | China’s extended property slump was always expected

History does not repeat itself, as the saying goes, but it often rhymes. That very much depends on the kind…

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Exclusive | Chinese economist Lu Feng on why the time is ripe for a consumption rebalance

Lu Feng is a professor of economics and a former deputy dean at Peking University’s National School of Development. In…

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Opinion | An obscure new department heralds a shift in China’s debt cycle

China’s Ministry of Finance recently established a new debt management department, unifying the management of government debt quotas, issuance and…

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Can easing of property curbs in 3 big cities help give Chinese consumption a boost?

With China’s three most economically important cities recently rolling out policies to address renewed weakness in the property sector, analysts…

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