纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Guess Whos Angry at Chinas Real Estate Bailout Homeowners
June 6, 2024 2 min 292 words
《纽约时报》这篇报道的主要内容是：中国房地产行业的救助措施引起了购房者的不满，他们认为自己被欺骗了。中国政府曾承诺会支持房地产市场，但现在却允许一些房地产开发商破产，导致许多人无法交房。购房者指责政府监管不力，并质疑中央政府的政策是否能得到地方政府的有效执行。 评论： 《纽约时报》的这篇报道有一定道理。中国政府确实在试图平衡各方的利益，但过程中出现了一些问题。房地产行业的健康发展对中国经济非常重要，政府有责任确保市场稳定。然而，中国政府也需要考虑到其他因素，如地方政府的执行能力和意愿开发商的财务状况等。报道中提到的购房者确实有理由感到愤怒，他们遭受了经济损失，也对政府失去了信心。中国政府应该采取更多措施来保护购房者的权益，加强市场监管，惩罚不诚信的开发商。同时，中国政府也应该加强宣传，让民众了解房地产市场的风险，避免盲目投资。
For much of the past decade, China’s efforts to curb speculation on real estate grew broader and more extensive.
Shanghai declared that anyone who got a divorce would be subject to restrictions on apartment buying for three years, to counter couples who were splitting up just so they could buy second homes as investments. In Chengdu, in western China, only local residents who paid social welfare taxes and drew a winning ticket in a lottery could buy a new place. In the city of Tangshan, in the country’s northeast, anyone buying a home had to hold the property for at least three and a half years.
Those restrictions, along with limitations in other regions, have been lifted as China tries to revive a severe property downturn. Since last year, more than 25 Chinese cities have eliminated all restrictions on real estate purchases, as many local governments scrapped rules that prevented developers from cutting prices.
Last month, the central government went further. It lowered down-payment requirements and relaxed mortgage rules, and urged local governments to buy unsold homes and convert them into public housing.
But some of China’s efforts to stimulate home buying have upset one of the country’s most vocal constituencies: existing homeowners.
Many Chinese homeowners, who pinched and saved to buy apartments that serve as a main household investment, are now worried that the relaxing of restrictions will depress prices for their properties. The new policies have given rise to a dose of NIMBY-ism, short for “not in my backyard,” in a country ruled by the Communist Party.