Chinese Real Estate Digs for Hope

Qiushi 求是 is the Chinese communist party's internal and external magazine.

Its goal is to "to publicize the governing philosophy of the CPC" with content that reports on political, economic, cultural and social issues, while providing analysis of world politics and China’s foreign relations". About 60% of its articles are written by political leaders.

In late February, Qiushi published part of a speech written by Xi Jinping in which he discussed the need for stable real estate growth along with repeating the line that "houses are for living in, not speculation on." As a result, hopes for a floodgate of easy money and regulatory policy evaporated. Since then however, the industry found a new hope: China's 5 percent GDP target for 2023. In a nutshell,

On the other hand, the main expected goal of this year's development is to increase the GDP by about 5%. Li Yujia said that this means that real estate at least cannot form a drag. To boost economic growth, real estate needs to perform well in investment, construction, and consumption this year.

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