纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英China Has a Plan for Its Housing Crisis Heres Why Its Not Enough
May 25, 2024 2 min 301 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道的主要内容是：中国目前正面临着住房危机，房价高企，年轻人买房困难。中国政府也意识到了这一问题，并提出了相关的解决方案，但报道认为这些措施可能不足以解决问题。报道提到中国政府鼓励年轻人到小城市和乡村生活，同时提供税收优惠和补贴来鼓励房地产开发商建造更多面向中低收入群体的住房。但报道认为这些措施可能不足以解决问题，因为年轻人不愿离开大城市，而房地产开发商也更倾向于在大型城市开展业务。 评论：该报道在一定程度上反映了中国目前住房问题的现实情况，但同时也存在着一定的偏见和片面性。该报道没有提到中国政府已经在采取多项措施来解决这一问题，例如加强市场监管，严厉打击房地产市场违法行为，以及推进住房租赁市场的发展等。此外，该报道过于强调年轻人买房的困难，而忽略了中国政府为解决这一问题所做的努力和取得的成果。该报道也忽视了中国文化传统和国情的差异，过于强调年轻人必须买房才能结婚生子，而忽略了中国年轻人也有租房等其他选择。
China has a housing problem. A very big one. It has nearly four million apartments that no one wants to buy, a combined expanse of unwanted living space roughly the area of Philadelphia.
Xi Jinping, the country’s leader, and his deputies have called on the government to buy them.
The plan, announced last week, is the boldest move yet by Beijing to stop the tailspin of a housing crisis that threatens one of the world’s biggest economies. It was also not nearly enough.
China has a bigger problem lurking behind all those empty apartments: even more homes that developers already sold but have not finished building. By one conservative estimate, that figure is around 10 million apartments.
The scale of China’s real estate boom was breathtaking. The extent of its unrelenting bust, which began nearly four years ago, remains vast and unclear.
China’s leaders were already managing a slowdown after three decades of double-digit growth before the housing crisis created a downturn that is spiraling out of their control. Few experts believe that Beijing can transition to more sustainable growth without confronting all those empty apartments and the developers that overextended to build them. All told, trillions of dollars are owed to builders, painters, real estate agents, small companies and banks around the country.
After decades of promoting the biggest real estate boom the world has ever seen, and allowing it to become nearly one-third of China’s economic growth, Beijing stepped in suddenly in 2020 to cut off the easy money that fueled the expansion, setting off a chain of bankruptcies that shocked a nation of home buyers.