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Teams go to 16 places to check
property prices
By Wang Qian (China Daily)
Updated: 2011-04-09 07:40
Monitoring most recent attempt to slow rising costs in
home market
BEIJING - China's State Council has sent eight
inspection teams to monitor the real estate markets in
16 places.
The action comes after local authorities across the
country placed limits on the number of houses residents
can buy, raised lending rates, set price caps on real
estate and adopted other strict measures all with the
same purpose: to tamp down on rises in property prices.
The first tasks of the supervisors sent out to monitor
local real estate markets will be to listen to local
residents' opinions about housing prices and to inspect
the construction and quality of government-subsidized
housing.
They will also look into the effectiveness of housing
control policies, into the means used to keep tabs on
the local officials who are supposed to stabilize
housing prices, into the effectiveness of loan control
measures and into the supply of land, according to
Xinhua News Agency.
Among the places that will receive the supervisors will
be Beijing and Shanghai municipalities, Liaoning,
Jiangsu, Zhejiang provinces and Guangxi Zhuang
autonomous region.
Even though the central government has spared itself no
pains in trying to tame record-high rises in home prices
and to control inflation, housing prices in most cities
remain high. |
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China looks to take salt out of
seawater
By Cheng Yingqi (China Daily)
Updated: 2011-04-09 08:01
BEIJING - China will quadruple its ability to desalinate
seawater in the next 10 years, a senior marine official
told a recent conference.
Speaking in Tianjin municipality on Wednesday at an
international conference on seawater desalination, Chen
Lianzeng, deputy director of the State Oceanic
Administration, said the country plans to be able to
produce from 2.5 million to 3 million tons of
desalinated water a day by 2020.
China can now put out 600,000 tons of desalinated water
a day, which is 20 times more than it could in 2000.
Seawater desalination has been used in 125 countries
throughout the world to supply water to more than 100
million people.
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