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Chinese Housing Price Control and Economic in One Lesson

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Executive summary

This report will be discussed on the issue of Chinese housing price control policy and its effects. The research has showed in the past decades, Chinese housing pricing was increasing at an unhealthy amazing rate in almost every city. The Chinese government has kept publishing a series of policies in order to control the increasing price. The report will apply this issue to Economic in One lesson and analysis the inflation and government pricing fixing effects.

Introduction

Since the reform and opening-up policy published in China in 1978, Chinese economy boomed in the past decades. China is facing great opportunities with its Chinese features; however, it also brings some negative …show more content…

Each family member will have 60 square meters exempted from tax. Hazlitt has discussed the effect on tax, it cuts down the production. In China real estate case, it not directly reduces the production as the tax burden doesn’t go to supplier, however it directly leads to the decrease of housing demand and cooling down people’s notion of housing is a store of wealth.
Recommendation and conclusion

In economics view housing price control is only a short-term solution for maintain the stable price. In the long run government shouldn’t interfere too much in a mature property market as the market itself has the ability to adjust the price and balance the demand and supply. Moreover, whether the local property industry actually can achieve the goals that government set and is the new property tax will continue implement in other cities or it will be abolished is still uncertain. As we can see, there is a gap between the government policy and actual practice due to the real Chinese society situation and people’s conception. Housing price has become one of the most urgent issue in China for a period of years and actually in later 2008 and 2009 some big cities’ housing price had a obvious decrease, such as Guangzhou city. The main reason is not because of governmental macro-control but the global financial crisis.

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