茶馆 ： 所有"无关紧要的"话题

ysun wrote:

Steve,

It seems to me that the 70-year (whatsoever) term only applies to the right to use the land on which the homes are built, not the ownership of the homes. Home owners still own their homes permanently. Perhaps, they will have to pay additional fees for further use of the land when the term is about to expire.

wherestip wrote:

I see. That sucks, in the sense that the government can charge whatever it feels like for the renewal of the next term for the use of the land. I suspect it won't be pretty.

wherestip wrote:

Chinese Buyers Flood U.S. Housing Market

By Les Christie


http://money.cnn.com/2013/07/08/real_estate/chinese-homebuyers/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Most of her Chinese clients are wealthy industrialists or real estate tycoons, many of whom spend less than half the year in the States.

...

China's gross domestic product has grown by high single-digit, sometimes double-digit rates for the past 10 years, producing a lot of cash for the country's top business people who view U.S. real estate as a safe and stable investment.

ysun wrote:

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-ghost-cities-2011-5?op=1

安得广厦千万间 大庇天下寒士俱欢颜 风雨不动安如山

呜呼！何时眼前突兀见此屋 吾庐独破受冻死亦足

—— 杜甫

前事不可追，后来者当吸取教训。眼下，鉴于经济下滑态势迟迟未能见底，为确保GDP之光鲜，各地皆已刮开新一轮“大开发”比拼风。若科学发展观继续被地方政府作随心所欲之曲解，要不了数年，中国版图上是否又会平添一批类似鄂市那样的“鬼城”？还真不是杞人忧天！

China plans to increase the number of cities that restrict vehicle purchases in a bid to fight pollution and traffic congestion, state media reported Thursday.

With more than 13 million cars sold in China last year, motor vehicles and their emissions have emerged as the chief culprit for the air pollution in large cities.

Four cities, including Beijing and Shanghai, already curb the purchase of vehicles for private use, through lotteries and auctions of a limited number of license plates.

Shi Jianhua, the deputy secretary general of the government-backed China Association of Automobile Manufacturers, was quoted Thursday as saying that eight more cities are likely to announce similar policies. The eight include the port city Tianjin, near Beijing, the metropolis Chongqing in the southwest and industrial powerhouse Shenzhen, not far from Hong Kong.

Such restrictions might cut vehicle sales by 400,000 units, or 2 percent of total domestic sales, and have a "certain impact" on the country's economic growth, the China Daily newspaper quoted Shi as saying.

ysun wrote:

Steve，

昨天我看新闻时得知，现在全球每年有 200 万人死于与空气污染有关的疾病！