05 Jul 2021
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On Friday, the State Council issued a policy document outlining plans to boost the supply of affordable rental housing.
At issue: Migrant workers, recent college grads, and other young people typically can’t afford to buy homes – but rental prices are skyrocketing.
On Friday, Reuters reported...
April 24, 2024
Xi Jinping knows the importance of good urban governance. On Monday, Xi kicked off a tour of Chongqing municipality in southwest China. He urged local officials to up their urban governance efforts: He inspected neighborhood renewal projects in an urban… Read More »
April 24, 2024
Xi Jinping has been all about regional development of late. The latest: On Tuesday, the big man chaired a symposium on western regional development in Chongqing municipality in southwestern China. This is the sixth symposium Xi has chaired on regional… Read More »
April 24, 2024
The ag ministry's (MARA) new rural construction project database is off to a solid start. We got a bunch of new details about the initiative at Friday's presser on the rural economy. A quick refresher: Beijing's pandemic-era stimulus efforts hit… Read More »