Three a long time in the past a lot of the housing in China’s cities belonged to state-owned enterprises, which supplied houses to employees at low rents. So much has modified since then. China is now blessed, if that’s the proper phrase, with a sprawling industrial property market, which has produced huge numbers of flats and equal quantities of drama. For the reason that top of the final growth in 2020, gross sales have dropped by greater than half. To attempt to put a flooring beneath the market, China’s authorities has turned to a brand new, outdated resolution. It desires state-owned enterprises to step in to purchase unsold property and switch it into inexpensive housing.