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Presserückblick der Schweizer Botschaft in der VR China
The Weekly Press Review of the Swiss Embassy in the People's Republic
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La revue de presse hebdomadaire de l'Ambassade de Suisse en RP
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| Switzerland |
UN chief appoints Gauchat of Switzerland as head of mission of UN Truce Supervision Organization (Xinhua)
2021-10-29 ^ top ^
Iran's president calls on European countries to resist US pressure (Xinhua)
2021-10-26
As reported by Iran's state TV, Raisi received the credentials of six new ambassadors from Switzerland, Kyrgyzstan, Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, and Azerbaijan. "Switzerland has always played a positive role in the maintenance and promotion of peace, and it is expected that in this new period it will be able to maintain its independent role in the face of unilateral US policies," Raisi said in his meeting with the new Swiss ambassador Christian Dussey. ^ top ^
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| Foreign Policy |
China urges Sudan's warring factions to come to the table, pledges to protect Chinese interests (SCMP)
2021-10-29 ^ top ^
FM begins Europe visit to 'dissolve misunderstandings, stabilize ties' in three key messages (GT)
2021-10-28 ^ top ^
'Major issue' resolved in China-Canada ties with Meng's release: Canadian envoy (GT)
2021-10-28 ^ top ^
US official chides Xi Jinping for his anticipated absence from the G20 and COP26 meetings (SCMP)
2021-10-27 ^ top ^
Wang Yi meets Afghan Taliban in Doha (GT)
2021-10-26 ^ top ^
China, US 'to intensify communication and coordination' on economic policies (SCMP)
2021-10-26 ^ top ^
50 years on, China remains committed to advancing UN cause (Xinhua)
2021-10-25 ^ top ^
China donates more COVID-19 vaccines to Philippines (Xinhua)
2021-10-25 ^ top ^
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China moves into high gear in preparing for 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (People's Daily)
2021-10-29 ^ top ^
China's Capital Takes Aim at Tutoring Industry Segment That Escaped Crackdown (Caixin)
2021-10-28
China's capital is tightening oversight on after-school tutoring companies that offer courses on subjects outside the core school curriculum, Caixin has learned, as part of the ongoing national campaign to take some of the pressure off the country's notoriously overworked students. The change marks the expansion of a local crackdown on the industry to a segment that had until recently escaped the sweeping education reforms that have shaken up China's after-school tutoring industry. As part of the increased oversight, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission has decided that advertisements for non-curriculum tutoring services belong under its regulatory supervision, Caixin learned from sources at the commission. The goal is to stop tutoring businesses from marketing classes for subjects outside the curriculum, such as sports, music and art, to K-12 students. The municipal government is also readying additional regulations targeting this type of institution, the sources said. Beijing is not the only local government taking a closer look at non-curriculum tutoring. The eastern province of Zhejiang has plans to set standards for after-school institutions that teach subjects outside the school curriculum, according to consultation paper issued Friday by the provincial department of culture and tourism. The province's plans include requirements that all of their classes end by 8:30 p.m. and that each institution has at least 300,000 yuan ($46,918) in startup capital. Many private curriculum-based tutoring institutions have been busy expanding their businesses into non-curriculum subject since the government in July launched its "double reduction" policy to ease the burdens on students. In July, China barred for-profit tutoring in core curriculum subjects, including Chinese, law and ethics, foreign languages, history, geography, mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. In early August, the Beijing branch of the tutoring powerhouse New Oriental Education & Technology Group Inc. launched a "quality education growth center" that offers courses designed to develop students' abilities in art, language, business literacy and sports, according to a post on its WeChat social media account. Caixin has learned small and midsized companies are hesitating whether to transform their businesses over concerns that they won't be able to bear the high debts needed to increase their investments to complete the licensing process. Amid the concern, Liu Lin, president of the China Association for Non-Government Education, said at a Monday forum that many tutoring companies misunderstood China's private education legislation, believing the government hopes to promote for-profit education. However, only nonprofit tutoring is encouraged for the country's nine-year compulsory education system. Besides the added oversight for non-curriculum tutoring institutions, government officials are discussing new regulations for some adult tutoring classes, including vocational courses, Liu said, adding that the number of tutoring institutions in the country is expected to fall to one-third of the current total over the next 12 to 18 months. ^ top ^
China's Delta outbreak reaches record daily high with 50 cases, most in Inner Mongolia (SCMP)
2021-10-27 ^ top ^
White paper shares China's achievements, experience on climate issue (GT)
2021-10-27 ^ top ^
Why China's Covid-19 anti-vaxxers are happy to take their chances (SCMP)
2021-10-26 ^ top ^
Chinese legislators adjust national defense mobilization laws amid tense China-US ties (GT)
2021-10-25 ^ top ^
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Promoted to Assistant Minister (Caixin)
2021-10-25
Hua Chunying, Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson and head of the ministry's department of information, has been promoted to assistant foreign minister, the latest in a spate of changes in the leadership of the ministry that began early this year. Deng Li, assistant foreign minister since August of last year, has been promoted to vice foreign minister, according to the foreign ministry. The 56-year-old is in charge of issues related to West Asia, North Africa, Africa and Europe, consular affairs and archives. Hua will be overseeing the ministry's work related to information, protocol and translation. The 51-year-old is the youngest among "principal officials" in the foreign ministry, according to the ministry's website. She was the 27th foreign ministry spokesperson since the post was established in 1983, the fifth woman to hold the job, and the second woman director-general of the ministry's department of information. Several veteran Chinese diplomats who had served as a spokesperson for the foreign ministry have been appointed to important roles. They include Ma Zhaoxu, currently a vice foreign minister; Cui Tiankai, the longest-serving former Chinese ambassador to the U.S.; and Qin Gang, China's new ambassador to Washington. Hua, a Jiangsu native, joined the foreign ministry in 1993 as a staff member and attaché of the Department of Western European Affair. She then served in posts at the Chinese Embassy in Singapore, the Chinese Mission to the European Union, and the ministry's Department of European Affairs, before being named the foreign ministry spokesperson and deputy director general of the ministry's department of information in 2012. In July 2019, she was promoted to the director general of the department, replacing Lu Kang, who was appointed director of the ministry's Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs. Hua first met with reporters as the foreign ministry spokesperson in November 2012 when she was introduced by Qin Gang, the then-director of the department of information. She held her first regular press briefing on Nov. 19 that year. Domestic media noted her remarks during press briefings as featuring "distinctive personal characteristics, affable and humorous interactions, as well as righteous refutations." At a press briefing in August, responding to a question on Afghan issues and the United States' democratic model, she said that "Democracy is not Coca-Cola, which, with the syrup produced by the United States, tastes the same across the world. Many Chinese prefer Beijing-based soda drink branded Arctic Ocean." And in response to a question on China's purported wolf-warrior diplomacy at a press briefing in December, she said that "If some people call China's diplomacy 'wolf-warrior diplomacy' just because we fight back and speak the truth in the face of unscrupulous attacks, slanders and denigration, I don't see any problem in living with that 'wolf-warrior' title, as long as we are fighting for China's sovereignty, security and development interests, national dignity and honor, and international fairness and justice." "How can anyone think China has no right to speak the truth while they have every right to slander, attack, smear and hurt China? … Do they think that China has no choice but the silence of the lambs while they are unscrupulously lashing out at the country with trumped-up charges?" she quipped. There have been leadership changes in the foreign ministry since earlier this year, with three vice foreign ministers, Qin Gang, Zheng Zeguang and Luo Zhaohui, getting new roles. In June, Zheng, a veteran diplomat who has focused on U.S.-related issues in the past two decades, was named the new ambassador to the U.K. In April, Luo, who was in charge of issues related to Asia, treaty and law, consular affairs, and external security affairs, was named chairman of the China International Development Cooperation Agency. ^ top ^
China's army of migrant workers waits for Xi Jinping's 'common prosperity' to touch their lives (SCMP)
2021-10-25 ^ top ^
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Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics: competitors warned they risk expulsion for breaking Covid-19 rules (SCMP)
2021-10-27 ^ top ^
Chinese Capital Tightens Controls on Visitors as Sprawling Covid Surge Grows (Caixin)
2021-10-25
Beijing has imposed entry restrictions on travelers from targeted regions with confirmed Covid-19 cases as local infections linked to trips to northern China continue to grow. Since last week, more than a dozen cases have been found in the Chinese capital's Changping, Haidian, and Fengtai districts, taking the national tally in the latest delta-driven outbreak to over 160, and forcing local authorities to tighten restrictions in certain neighborhoods and close some public venues. On Sunday, Pan Xuhong, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, said at a press conference that the city will restrict visitors from counties with at least one locally transmitted case in the past 14 days. Pan said those from unaffected counties in cities with at least one local infection should also not enter the capital unless necessary. Beijing now requires those who want to enter from counties with Covid-19 cases to present a negative Covid-19 test from the preceding two days and a "green code" that proves they have not been in risk areas over the past few weeks, he said. In addition, visitors should then expect a fortnight of health monitoring. Pan said six people, including a pair in Beijing's Changping district who recently visited Ejin Banner in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, are under criminal investigation for violating local epidemic control measures. After returning from the northern region, the two invited others to their home to play mahjong despite having developed a sore throat and fever. Ejin Banner bordering Mongolia has kicked off a third round of mass testing, as some of China's most recent cases were found to have links to tourist groups there, health authorities said. Several officials in Ejin Banner have been punished for their poor response to the local outbreak that has grown to include over 40 cases since Oct. 17, with Liu Qin, the local health commission's deputy director, being removed from her post, according to a Saturday notice. Beijing's recent Covid-19 cases are all directly and indirectly linked to recent travel to Inner Mongolia, with most patients aged 55 and above, Pang Xinghuo, deputy director of Beijing's disease control center, told a press conference Sunday. The cases in Changping district have been determined by gene sequencing to share a source with those reported in Inner Mongolia and Gansu, authorities said, noting that the origin of the nation's latest outbreak remains under investigation. Beijing has postponed its annual marathon, which was scheduled to take place on Oct. 31, until further notice, according to a Sunday notice issued by the city's marathon organizing committee. It also postponed related events including a marathon expo that was due to take place on Oct. 29 and 30 as well as a family run scheduled for Oct. 30. Also on Sunday, Wu Liangyou, deputy director of the National Health Commission disease control bureau, said at a press conference that the latest outbreak in China, which has spread to at least 11 provincial-level regions, was caused by a new foreign source of the highly contagious delta variant. Wu said China's current outbreak has developed fast, with a rise in local infections unrelated to travel groups, and warned that the number of new cases would continue to grow and spread to more areas in the next few days. The country has largely brought its domestic Covid epidemic under control since adopting a "zero tolerance" policy early last year, although regional flare-ups of the globally prevalent delta variant continue to appear. Several Chinese cities have offered booster shots to certain groups of adults amid the sporadic outbreaks. On Thursday, authorities in Beijing said the city has begun offering booster shots to adults who have been fully vaccinated for at least six months, four months before the city is to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. ^ top ^
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Tesla opens first overseas vehicle R&D center in Shanghai (Xinhua)
2021-10-26 ^ top ^
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| Guangdong |
Greater Bay Area: tech entrepreneurs call for more policy support to attract talent to the region (SCMP)
2021-10-29 ^ top ^
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| Tibet |
Foreign trade of China's Tibet more than doubles in Jan.-Sept. period (Xinhua)
2021-10-24 ^ top ^
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| Xinjiang |
Xinjiang officials, residents lambast U.S. "forced labor" fallacies (Xinhua)
2021-10-28 ^ top ^
Terror expert is new Urumqi party chief in China's Xinjiang region (SCMP)
2021-10-27 ^ top ^
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| Hongkong |
Hong Kong passes bill to vet movies over national security (Xinhua)
2021-10-28 ^ top ^
Hong Kong property agents who sell homes abroad need to be licensed, watchdog says, as complaints rise 60 per cent (SCMP)
2021-10-28 ^ top ^
Why did Amnesty International decide to leave Hong Kong? (GT)
2021-10-27 ^ top ^
Rights NGO Amnesty International to close its Hong Kong offices citing security law (HKFP)
2021-10-25 ^ top ^
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China's NPC opposes Czech senate's invitation to Taiwan official (Xinhua)
2021-10-29 ^ top ^
Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen says she has 'faith' US will defend island against any Beijing attack (HKFP/AFP)
2021-10-28 ^ top ^
Washington's Taiwan stunt harms ties with China, threatens regional stability (Xinhua)
2021-10-25 ^ top ^
'One-China principle' only route for Taiwan island to attend international events (GT)
2021-10-25 ^ top ^
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Magnesium Prices Down 40% in Key China Production Hub as Lights Come Back On (Caixin)
2021-10-28
Prices of magnesium in China's key production region have dropped as much as two-fifths from a record high in September, as smelters ramp up output amid ongoing concerns about a global supply shortage. The cost of the key raw material, which is a widely-used alloying element in the production of aluminum for cars and bikes, soared last month as power shortages forced local authorities in Northwest China's Shaanxi province to halt or limit production at many factories. In Fugu county, which produced half of the magnesium China made last year, production was suspended from Sept. 20 to Sept. 30, slashing monthly magnesium output in the surrounding city of Yulin by almost 40% year on year. According to data from China Magnesium, the ex-factory price range of 99.9% grade magnesium ingot from Fugu stood at 42,500 yuan ($6,643) to 43,000 yuan per ton on Wednesday, down 10% over the past week and 39% from a record high of 70,000 yuan per ton on Sept. 23. Magnesium smelters in Fugu have recovered about half of their lost capacity since the beginning of the month. Falling prices of raw inputs such as coal and ferrosilicon have also helped ease pressure. China produced 86% of the world's magnesium last year, and Shaanxi accounted for 64% of the country's total output, according to the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association. Fugu county alone produced 478,600 tons of magnesium last year, accounting for half of the country's overall output. Warnings of a magnesium shortage were triggered earlier this month by industrial users in Europe, which imports 95% of its magnesium from China. There were also jitters in North America, Japan and South Korea. Some analysts have compared the impact of a magnesium shortage on the global auto industry to the current shortage of semiconductors. On Oct. 22, a dozen European trade associations issued a joint statement warning of potential plant shutdowns and a loss of jobs stemming from a drastic reduction in magnesium supply from China since September, calling it "an international supply crisis of unprecedented magnitude." Europe is expected to run out of magnesium stocks by the end of November, the letter added. ^ top ^
China to extend tax incentives for overseas investors to attract more foreign investment (Xinhua)
2021-10-27 ^ top ^
China's Policymakers Offer Soothing Words to Revive Moribund Housing Market (Caixin)
2021-10-26
Chinese government officials and regulators are working to restore confidence in the property market after recent turmoil triggered by the debt crisis engulfing developer China Evergrande Group fueled concerns that the real-estate industry's troubles will spread to the rest of the economy and drag down growth. Vice Premier Liu He and People's Bank of China (PBOC) Governor Yi Gang are among the senior officials that have spoken publicly over the past week to reassure home buyers and investors that Evergrande's problems are controllable and that there's no risk of contagion into the broader property sector and the banking system. Sales of new homes have plunged over the past few weeks and government data show new housing starts have slumped as cash-strapped developers have struggled to fund their operations, stymied by the PBOC's three red lines policy to control their debt and banks' increasing reluctance to extend credit to the industry. Declining confidence among property purchasers has fueled concerns of a potential vicious cycle as sluggish sales lead to lower revenue for developers, pushing them into a liquidity crunch which makes it even more difficult for them to pay down their debts and fund their projects, further undermining market confidence. Sentiment may improve this week after news emerged on Friday that Evergrande, the country's most heavily indebted builder weighed down by $300 billion of liabilities, had paid $83.5 million in overdue interest on its offshore U.S. dollar bond, averting a default. The company also announced Sunday that work had resumed on more than 10 projects in six cities including Shenzhen, after saying in August that many projects had been suspended because of delays in payment to suppliers and contractors. Developers including Sinic Holdings (Group) Co. Ltd. and Fantasia Holdings Group Co. Ltd. have defaulted on their bonds and credit ratings companies have made a wave of downgrades to the debt of major real-estate developers — from Oct. 15 to 20, Moody's Investors Service lowered the outlook or cut the ratings of nearly 20 property firms including Greenland Holdings Corp. Ltd. (600606.SH -2.23%), Guangzhou R&F Properties Co. Ltd. and Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd., according to Caixin calculations. "Some investors had been expecting a significant near-term property easing, following the PBOC's guidance in late September to 'maintain the steady and healthy development of the property market,'" economists at Nomura International (Hong Kong) Ltd. wrote in a Monday note. "We believe there is some correction of some overdoing, but there will be no major changes to the ongoing property curbs." Vice Premier Liu, who is also head of the Financial Stability and Development Committee, said on Wednesday that the real estate sector's reasonable demand for funding is being met and the overall trend of the industry's healthy development will not change. The government will coordinate the prevention and control of financial risks and properly handle the default risks of a few large enterprises, Liu said in a speech at a financial forum. Pan Gongsheng, a deputy governor of the PBOC, also weighed in at the same forum. "Under the guidance of financial regulators, the excessive contraction in risk appetite of financial institutions and financial markets has been gradually corrected, and financing behavior and financial market prices are gradually returning to normal," he said. Their speeches followed comments made by PBOC Governor Yi to a meeting of the Group of 30, an international body of financiers and academics, on Oct. 17 that while Evergrande problems were "a little bit of concern," risks to the economy can be contained. Yi said "the spillover of Evergrande's risk to the financial sector is under control" and that "we are confident that we can prevent the risk from spreading and avoid systemic risk." Officials from China's banking regulator have also come out to reassure consumers. […] Prices of pre-owned homes fell month-on-month in September in 52 out of 70 large and midsize cities surveyed by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), a report released Oct. 20 showed. The number of cities reporting a month-on-month drop in new-home prices rose to 36 from 20 in August, the most since May 2015. Prices may have fallen in more cities than indicated in the NBS report because of distortions created by controls on prices imposed by local governments, Nomura economists wrote in a note last week. Local governments in at least seven cities have held talks with developers to limit price discounting. Real-estate investment figures for the first nine months of 2021, released by the NBS on Oct. 18 along with third-quarter GDP data, showed investment in residential housing development rose 10.9% year-on-year, and sales rose 17.8% by value, slumping from a pace of 17% and 41.9% respectively in the first half of the year, respectively. New housing starts dropped 3.3% in the first nine months in terms of floor space, compared with 5.5% growth in the first half. There are tentative signs that the worst of the slump may be over. Banks are making efforts to support home purchases — in October, mortgage rates for first-home and second-home purchasers in 90 cities both dropped one basis point from the previous month to 5.73% and 5.99%, respectively, the first month-on-month decline this year, according to a Wednesday note from the Beike Research Institute, a property industry think tank. Some industry participants told Caixin that banks are also likely to accelerate mortgage approvals. There are also indications that sales of pre-owned homes are starting to recover. Transaction volumes in 11 surveyed cities jumped 198% in the week of Oct. 11 to 17 to 862,000 square meters from the previous week, reaching the highest in four weeks as the strong regulatory grip on the industry began to be eased, according to real estate data collector China Real Estate Information Corp. Transactions were still 43% lower on a year-on-year basis, a slightly deeper drop than the 40% seen the previous week. But whether the improvement will be enough to bolster GDP growth in the fourth quarter remains to be seen. The property sector likely contributes around 25% of China's GDP growth directly and indirectly, Wang Tao, chief China economist at UBS Investment Bank, estimates. Last week she lowered her forecast for China's fourth-quarter GDP growth to 2.7% year-on-year from 4% and cut her estimate for full year expansion to 7.6% from 8.2%, partly because of an expected further decline in property sales and investment. Many economists and industry participants say that despite the government's efforts to bolster confidence and ease some controls on property sales and financing, there will be no fundamental reversal of the long-standing policies to stamp out speculation and bring down the leverage of property developers. Banks are still cautious about issuing loans to developers because they still have to comply with regulators' caps on the proportion of credit that goes to the real estate industry, financial industry insiders said. And although government officials are trying to revive confidence, renewed efforts by the government to introduce a property tax could still hold the market back in the short term. On Saturday, the standing committee of the National People's Congress, the country's legislature, authorized the State Council, the cabinet, to carry out a five-year pilot property tax reform in certain regions. Some analysts said the reform will likely disrupt local property markets in the cities chosen for the trials because it will rein in housing speculation. ^ top ^
Evergrande crisis: work resumes on 10 projects as developer restores calm, buys time to repay more creditors (SCMP)
2021-10-25 ^ top ^
China's Pilot Property Tax Reforms Benefit Markets Despite Short-Term Pain, Analysts Say (Caixin)
2021-10-25
China's recently announced property tax pilot program looks likely to disrupt participating real estate markets in the short term and produce economic dividends in the long term, though the rewards won't be enough for the headline-grabbing policy to solve the country's local government budgetary problems all in one go, analysts said. The five-year pilot program, which the national legislature authorized Saturday, will be carried out in some regions, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported, without specifying the regions. The State Council will later decide when to kick off the program and which regions will participate. The program shows that the government is picking up the pace of long-discussed plans to roll out a nationwide tax on property ownership, as policymakers have not waited for the legislature to pass a property tax law before moving ahead with the regional pilots. The program's authorization came after President Xi Jinping wrote in an article earlier this month that the government should push ahead with property tax legislation and reform. "Three considerations are the most important: an alternative source of fiscal revenue; curbing home price increase and enhancing common prosperity," economists with Macquarie Capital Ltd. wrote in a recent note, commenting on why policymakers want to roll out the property tax. Some analysts said that pilot reform will disrupt local property markets in the pilot cities. Home resale markets in the pilot cities will likely undergo some price swings for about half a year, which will eventually affect the markets for new homes, Ding Zuyu, CEO of property services provider E-House (China) Enterprise Holdings Ltd., wrote in a Monday note. Ding said that large cities like Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and Ningbo will likely be among the first batch of pilot cities. "Near-term pains are inevitable," economists at Nomura International (Hong Kong) Ltd. wrote in a note. Although authorities will cautiously proceed with the tax reform and only gradually phase in the tax, the economists expect the launch of the reform would rein in market speculation and home prices. Despite potential disruptions to the real estate industry, the Nomura economists estimate that the tax reform's short-term impact on the macro economy could be small given the limited scale of the pilot program. Some analysts said that there's no certainty that the property tax reform would result in a drop in home prices. In the near term, the property ownership tax would mainly affect property owners' valuation expectations, while real estate prices would ultimately depend on the supply and demand in the market involving long-term factors such as land supply and population, Luo Zhiheng, an economist at Yuekai Securities Co. Ltd., wrote in an analysis piece. Property markets in major large cities — first-tier and core second-tier cities — will be relatively stable because the demand for homes is solid in places with growing populations, strong industrial foundation, and good job opportunities, analysts at brokerage Hongta Securities Co. Ltd. wrote in a note. However, analysts generally believe that the property tax reform will have a significant long-term impact on the economy as it is part of a broader package of tax and property reforms. Some analysts expect that the property ownership tax would be another major source of revenue for local governments as it will be increasingly difficult for them to depend on land sales revenue as the property market's era of rapid growth draws to an end. In the future, real estate tax will gradually replace land sales revenue as a crucial source of fiscal revenue for local governments, E-House's Ding said. But analysts at Citic Securities Co. Ltd. estimated it will be difficult to replace the land sales revenue with the property tax. They estimated that levying an urban property ownership tax nationwide would bring in about 38 billion yuan ($6 billion) to 560 billion yuan in fiscal revenue, far less than the 8.4 trillion yuan in land sales revenue in 2020. In addition, levying a tax on home ownership is expected to promote wealth equality as rich people with more property will likely see higher tax, some analysts said. "Taxing high-income groups through the property tax and redistributing income through secondary distribution in order to stimulate the spending power of low- and middle-income people is the most critical objective of the pilot reform," analysts at Shenwan Hongyuan Securities Co. Ltd. wrote in a note. ^ top ^
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Senior Chinese diplomat meets DPRK ambassador (Xinhua)
2021-10-29 ^ top ^
Top DPRK leader sends wreath to commemorate Chinese People's Volunteer martyrs (Xinhua)
2021-10-26 ^ top ^
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| Mongolia |
"Special attention needs to be paid to the issue concerning foreign investment" (Montsame)
2021-10-27 ^ top ^
92 activities being carried out within Mongolia-Russia diplomatic anniversary (Montsame)
2021-10-26 ^ top ^
Mongolia-Eurasian Economic Union cooperation discussed (Montsame)
2021-10-25 ^ top ^
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