但中国政府在意识形态上反对促进消费,比如通过提供更慷慨的医疗和退休福利,这种做法会减少储蓄需求。加州大学圣迭戈分校(University of California San Diego)研究中国产业政策的专家Barry Naughton说,与此同时,习近平通过一系列深刻的政策选择致使人们的信心恶化,这些选择现在又开始阻碍中国经济及其复苏。
Recently, Beijing has sent signals indicating it is okay with cities easing or abandoning the price floors, in tandem with other steps the central government has taken to support the market, such as lowering interest rates.
China Real Estate Business Weekly, the flagship newspaper of China’s Housing and Urban-Rural Development Ministry, published an editorial on Aug. 20 urging local policy makers to eliminate price floors.
“Developers should be allowed to carry out self-rescue through price reduction promotions in order to raise funds as soon as possible,” the article said. Other articles in state media have made similar cases.
Some industry analysts have pushed back, arguing in other media that it is too dangerous to remove the floors.
Guangzhou, a manufacturing hub in southern China with a population of 15 million, this month allowed developers to start selling apartments freely without seeking approval on sale prices, according to Chinese media reports. It also lowered the city’s price floor late last year.