Chinese government may roll out a new round of supportive measures to encourage home purchases, reported China Business News on Thursday. According to the report, the expected supportive measures would mainly focus on de-stocking of home inventories in third and fourth-tier cities and would include cutting down payment requirements again for first-time home buyers.
Unsold home inventories across China hit a record high of 686.3 million square meters at the end of October, up 17.8 percent from a year earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Wednesday. China's top leaders have attached greater significance to the real estate sector, an important pillar industry of the world's second-largest economy, with a focus on reducing the huge inventory.
President Xi Jinping urged more efforts to address oversupply, when he presided over a meeting of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs last week. Earlier this month, Premier Li Keqiang told a cabinet meeting that the government should overhaul China's household registration system in a bid to encourage more rural residents to settle in cities to boost consumption of homes and electronic appliances.
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