Curbing speculative demand in property (Xinhua) Updated: 2005-08-14 08:44
China will continue its efforts in curbing the speculative demand and limit
the investment-aimed demand in its real estate sector so as to fetch the country
a healthier housing market.
All localities must unify their thoughts and acts to the control and
readjustment policies released by the State Council on the country's property
market and jointly work to realize the stabilization of housing prices and
healthy development of the property sector, said Zeng Peiyan, Vice-Premier of
the State Council.
"And normal housing consumption need of residents should be guided and
encouraged in a reasonable way," he said.
The pace of the ongoing retooling process of China's property structure
should be accelerated in order to increase the proportion of houses with middle
or small sizes and prices, he said.
The amount of affordable and low-rent houses should be improved too.
Local government, he said, must work out and improve a series of measures to
guide the construction and sale of affordable houses and hence make low-income
groups the real beneficiaries of the policies as supposed in the end.
Information and transparency work for this sector must be strengthened and
finally serve to guide the country's property market developing in a rational
way.
However, Zeng said, the real estate sector should always and unswervingly be
taken as one of China's pillar industries and efforts to that effect be made to
push the sector grow in a continuous and healthy manner, he said.
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