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Flash talk | Laying the floor, building a door

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In its government work report, Beijing set an economic growth target of 5.5% for 2022. It’s an ambitious goal, not least because the authorities intend to do it without significant help from the property sector.

For the past 20 years, real estate has been an essential part of China’s growth engi...