China Pins Hopes on Public Housing – WSJ.com<\/a>.<\/p>\nComment: ~ This is good news for iron ore and (coking) coal miners in Australia and Brazil: steel prices should recover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
One of the biggest public-housing projects in history will help determine whether China can remake its real-estate sector fast enough to prevent its economy from flaming out. China is in the midst of a crash program to build 36 million subsidized apartments by the end of 2015\u2014enough units to house the entire population of Germany. … <\/p>\n
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