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  "title": "People’s Republic of China: Selected Issues",
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  "summary": "This Selected Issues paper analyses China’s property sector transition. The Chinese authorities have taken resolute actions to address the risks from the property sector since the start of the pandemic.",
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      "heading": "Overview and central findings",
      "content": "- The Selected Issues paper analyses China’s property sector transition.\n- The Chinese authorities have taken resolute actions to address the risks from the property sector since the start of the pandemic.\n- The key challenge is to smooth the transition of the sector to a smaller, more sustainable size amid:\n  - unresolved financial distress among developers;\n  - weakened homebuyer confidence;\n  - a backdrop of large inventories and structurally declining demand.\n- New housing construction is set to fall significantly in the coming decade.\n- Drivers of the projected decline in construction:\n  - a likely slowdown in urban household formation;\n  - reduced urban redevelopment activities;\n  - an expected gradual contraction in the overall population;\n  - a significant drag from excess developer inventories and rising secondary market supply of previously vacant homes."
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      "heading": "Projections and analysis",
      "content": "- The paper projects the path of real estate investment in China over the medium term.\n- Construction faces substantial downward pressures from both demand-side and supply-side factors (see Overview and central findings).\n- Excess developer inventories and increasing supply on the secondary market of previously vacant homes act as a significant drag on new construction activity."
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      "heading": "Policy priorities and recommendations",
      "content": "- Expedite the resolution of underlying supply-side imbalances, most importantly by restructuring nonviable developers.\n- Support and de-risk surviving developers to preserve market functioning and complete viable projects.\n- Take steps to contain the build-up of risks in the property market to prevent further financial distress and transmission to the broader economy.\n- The paper considers policies that will help ease the sector’s transition to a smaller, more sustainable size."
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      "content": "- Publication date: February 9, 2024\n- Pages: 58\n- Volume: 2024\n- Issue: 050\n- Series: Country Report No. 2024/050\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400266966.002\n- Stock No: 1CHNEA2024002\n- ISBN: 9798400266966\n- ISSN: 1934-7685\n- Subject tags: Financial statements, Housing, International organization, Monetary policy, National accounts, Personal income tax, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue administration, Tax incentives, Taxes\n- Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Financial statements, Global, Housing, labor income taxation, LG debt, LG finance, Personal income tax, real estate slump, Tax incentives, wealth taxation\n\nSource: People’s Republic of China: Selected Issues (IMF Staff Country Report No. 2024/050).\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- People’s Republic of China: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 24/50; December 19, 2023\n  - People’s Republic of China: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 24/50; December 19, 2023 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - People’s Republic of China: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 24/50; December 19, 2023 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}"
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    "Published: February 9, 2024",
    "Series: IMF Staff Country Reports",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400266966.002",
    "The Selected Issues paper analyses China’s property sector transition.",
    "The Chinese authorities have taken resolute actions to address the risks from the property sector since the start of the pandemic.",
    "The key challenge is to smooth the transition of the sector to a smaller, more sustainable size amid:",
    "New housing construction is set to fall significantly in the coming decade.",
    "Drivers of the projected decline in construction:",
    "The paper projects the path of real estate investment in China over the medium term.",
    "Construction faces substantial downward pressures from both demand-side and supply-side factors (see Overview and central findings).",
    "Excess developer inventories and increasing supply on the secondary market of previously vacant homes act as a significant drag on new construction activity.",
    "Expedite the resolution of underlying supply-side imbalances, most importantly by restructuring nonviable developers.",
    "Support and de-risk surviving developers to preserve market functioning and complete viable projects.",
    "Take steps to contain the build-up of risks in the property market to prevent further financial distress and transmission to the broader economy.",
    "The paper considers policies that will help ease the sector’s transition to a smaller, more sustainable size.",
    "Publication date: February 9, 2024",
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    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400266966.002",
    "Stock No: 1CHNEA2024002",
    "ISBN: 9798400266966",
    "ISSN: 1934-7685",
    "Subject tags: Financial statements, Housing, International organization, Monetary policy, National accounts, Personal income tax, Public financial management (PFM), Revenue administration, Tax incentives, Taxes",
    "Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Financial statements, Global, Housing, labor income taxation, LG debt, LG finance, Personal income tax, real estate slump, Tax incentives, wealth taxation",
    "**People’s Republic of China: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 24/50; December 19, 2023**"
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