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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Martin Farrer and agencies

China property shares soar on Beijing stimulus, despite continued debt crisis

Help for China’s sluggish property market lifted shares in Hong Kong and the mainland on Thursday, despite more bad news for major developer Sunac.
Help for China’s sluggish property market lifted shares in Hong Kong and the mainland on Thursday, despite more bad news for major developer Sunac. Photograph: Peter Parks/AFP/Getty Images

Chinese property shares have soared for a second day thanks to a decision by Beijing’s leadership to throw the country’s struggling real estate sector a lifeline amid growing pressures at home and abroad.

Despite a downgrade for China’s third-biggest property developer Sunac on Thursday, stocks in the sector lifted again in Hong Kong and the mainland thanks to an announcement by vice premier Liu He, China’s economic tsar, on Wednesday that the government needed to reduce risks in the industry.

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