China announced it would lower the minimum deposit for home purchases in most cities to spur the real estate market on Tuesday.
Big data on travel patterns shows that while many people are leaving metropolises for family reunions during the Spring Festival travel rush this year, some will be traveling in the reverse direction for the same reason.
Surging house prices in Australia' s largest cities has contributed to the nation being the second least-affordable country to buy a house, a report revealed on Monday.
Beijingers lost as much as 7,972 yuan on average to traffic jams last year, the highest in the country, said a report.
The central government is facing a daunting challenge: While there is a glut of property stock in small cities, there is also limited land and high housing prices in metropolitan areas, posing major headwinds for the slowing economy.
China's environmental authority reported that 50 cities, including Beijing and Tianjin, were subject to heavy smog on Wednesday.
Roughly 50 cities in northern and eastern China have issued air pollution alerts in the most recent bout of smog.
Hunger and homelessness continued rising in most U.S. cities in the year of 2015, as low wages, poverty, lack of affordable housing kept plaguing the urban population amid a slow economic recovery, found a survey released Tuesday.
China addressed its future city development in a Central Urban Work Conference on Sunday, specially devoting a meeting to the issue after last doing so in 1978.
Not enough is being done to support threatened species in Australia's urban areas, with cities home to almost five times the number of under-threat plants and animals than in rural regions, according to a leading Australian scientist.
An evaluation of the National Air Quality Index (NAQI) data maintained by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) released on Tuesday has revealed that as many as 15 out of the 17 cities that are being monitored fail to meet the ambient air quality standard by a considerable margin. The evaluation, done by Greenpeace India, also found that infrastructure to monitor air pollution is abysmal in India despite such severe levels of pollution.
The return of "land kings" -- as plots sold at record prices are dubbed in China -- has highlighted duality in the property market.
China is likely to surpass the United States as Uber's largest market by the end of this year, the company said in Beijing on Wednesday.
Northern Chinese province Shanxi eased rules on home purchasing, becoming the fourth province to undo previous curbs in hopes of slashing more property inventory in China's lower-tier cities.
Recovery in China's real estate sector slowed in October as fewer cities reported price increases, mainly due to continuing oversupply of homes.
BEIJING, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Air pollution forecasts for six cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region are likely to be taken as a whole when emergency responses are being considered, said a plan released on Monday.
At the Climate Leaders Summit in Los Angeles on Tuesday and Wednesday, about two dozens of China and U.S. local governments announced their ambitious plans to combat the climate change.
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