Is Housing Reform Necessary?

Lesson 20 Is Housing Reform Necessary? Text Housing Reform Faces Obstacles Housing reform, acknowledged by economists and politicians at home and abroad as central to China's economic reform, has reac

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Trade Dispute Over E.U. Sugar Subsidies

AGRICULTURE REPORT - Trade Dispute Over E.U. Sugar Subsidies By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 This is Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report. By some measures,

US Senate Voted to Repeal Export Subsidies

By Deborah Tate The U.S. Senate has voted to repeal a tax subsidy for U.S. exports that the World Trade Organization says violates global trade rules. The bill, which already has been approved by the

住建部表态 今年我国公租房将新增200万套

China will create 2 million units of public rental housing in 2017 to provide affordable housing for low-income people, said Lu Kehua, vice-minister for the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. 住房和城乡建设部副部长陆克华日前

英语四级作文 Housing Problem

Direction:For this part,you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition in three paragraphs.You are given the first sentence of the three paragrapgs.Your part of the composition should be no less than 100 words,not including the words given.Remembe

美国国家公共电台 NPR How The House Tax Overhaul Bill Could Hurt Affordable Housing

RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: Republicans are set to unveil their tax bill compromise later today. And people who build affordable housing are desperate to see what is in this bill. That's because the House version would scrap a tax incentive that underpins a

美国国家公共电台 NPR Rural America Faces A Crisis In 'Adequate Housing'

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Home prices are skyrocketing in some places that might surprise you, including remote towns in rural America. And the problems facing those places may be especially hard to solve. As part of our series on the new housing crisis, NP

中英双语新闻——77 Homes for young folk to rent

Sun Xiang, 24, a video editor for Hong Kong Satellite TV in Shenzhen, moved into a new one-bedroom apartment at the end of last year. She pays only 600 yuan per month for the 30-square-meter flat in downtown Shenzhen. At a time of rent rising in Chin

英语新闻视频 China pushes low-rent housing

Affordable housing is one of the main goals of the government's policy of building a housing security system. In the last five years, 270,000 low-income families have been given access to low-rent housing. It appears that low-income families just ca

1.09 mln cataracts patients cured under subsidies

BEIJING, May 22 (Xinhua) -- More than 1 million cataracts patients in China have been cured in the past three years with the help of 872 million yuan (138 million U.S. dollars) in subsidies from the central government, according to Health Ministry fi

China allocates 20,000 hectares for low-income housing

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- China has allocated more than 20,000 hectares of land to support the construction of low-income housing this year, an official with the Ministry of Land and Resources said Tuesday. The nation plans to distribute 47,600 hec

China urges expanded financing for affordable housing

BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- China is encouraging local governments to make full use of their financing vehicles in 2012 in an effort to boost financial support for low-income housing projects, the country's top economic planner said Monday. The cent

2.96 bln yuan misused in affordable housing

BEIJING, June 27 (Xinhua) -- China's top auditor said on Wednesday that 2.96 billion yuan (470 million U.S. dollars) earmarked for affordable housing programs was intercepted or embezzled last year. The report was based on auditing in 66 cities and c

WTO Scolds Boeing On Subsidies

The world's two largest aircraft manufacturers have fought yet another round in their six-year legal and political battle over trade subsidies. On Thursday, a World Trade Organization panel said American aircraft manufacturer Boeing received billions

More gov't subsidies for rural medical insurance system

BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government will raise its subsidies for rural residents' medical insurance in 2013, Minister of Health Chen Zhu announced on Monday. Under the new rural cooperative medical program, the annual government subsid

China to regulate housing file management

BEIJING, Nov. 13 (Xinhua) -- China will next year introduce a regulation to better manage the housing files of the country in terms of resources and applicants, according to an official announcement on Tuesday. The announcement, posted on the website

英闻天下——147 A Look at Housing in Third-tier Cities

China's real estate market in major cities is warming up, with home prices rising, and more people buying new apartments. However, this is not the case across the country. In smaller cities, real estate agents are finding it increasingly difficult to

China starts construction on 5.8 mln low-income housing units

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- China started building 5.8 million low-income housing units in the first seven months of this year, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said Friday. Construction on 3.6 million affordable homes has been ba

China to continue regulating land supply for housing construction

BEIJING, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- China will continue its regulation of land supply for housing use in 2013 to promote the stability of land market and healthy economic growth, a senior land and resources official said on Friday. Xu Shaoshi, minister of l

Chinese banks to hold differentiated housing loans

BEIJING, March 1 (Xinhua) -- China's four biggest state-owned banks said Thursday they will continue implementing the differentiated housing loan policy. The four state-run lenders, dubbed the Big Four, are Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Ch