2 w. ago China Eastern Suspends Over a Dozen Flights Amid Flash Flood, Causing Widespread Travel Disruptions Across Major Chinese Cities, Including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Update You Need to Know Now

China Eastern Suspends Over a Dozen Flights Amid Flash Flood, Causing Widespread Travel Disruptions Across Major Chinese Cities, Including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, Update You Need to Know Now  Travel And Tour World

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3 w. ago China’s home prices slide as support measures fail to budge sentiment

A gauge of new home prices in China slid 0.3 per cent in July, adding to the steepest drop in eight months in June as a slew of recent government support measures did little to revive citizens’ interest in property investment. The month-on-month drop in new home prices across 70 major cities matched the decline in the previous month, which was the sharpest since a 0.5 per cent fall in October, according to National Bureau of Statistics data released on Friday. New home prices have been sliding...

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3 w. ago China's new home prices fall again but declines ease in major cities

China's new home prices fall again but declines ease in major cities  Reuters

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3 w. ago China's new home price declines persist but narrow modestly in major cities

China's new home price declines persist but narrow modestly in major cities  Reuters

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3 w. ago China property: Shanghai, Shenzhen could follow Beijing by dropping buying curbs

Beijing’s surprise move to lift home-purchase restrictions in outlying areas will help stabilise housing prices in the capital by next year, according to analysts, who added that other major cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen could follow suit. The municipal government said on Friday that families with Beijing residency, as well as those who paid social insurance and individual income tax in the city for a set period, would be allowed to buy new and second-hand homes outside the Fifth Ring Road,...

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4 w. ago China’s water paradox: rainfall drenches big cities while river run

Beijing and surrounding areas may have been engulfed in deadly torrential downpours in the past fortnight but a new study reveals a longer-term drying trend for the country’s major rivers. New research shows that despite many Chinese cities increasingly being hit by extreme rainfall, the volume of water in China’s rivers has fallen over 60 years, particularly in the country’s north. The researchers found that from 1956 to 2016, some 756 – or 72 per cent – of the 1,046 hydrological stations in...

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