Haikou, capital of South China's Hainan province, has joined 26 other cities to lift restrictions on property acquisitions. The city said that there will be no limits on how many houses people can...
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The Africa-China Urban Initiative and its partner institutions have a number of resources available.
Displaying 31 - 45 of 423How Chinese Urbanism Is Transforming African Cities
Publication date: Sun 20 Jul 2014
Document type: Article
This article delves into China’s urban development of many African cities, and the effect this has had on the architectural quality of those cities. Chinese contractors and architects are able to...
Chilling house market cools land sales
Publication date: Thu 17 Jul 2014
Document type: Article
China's chilling property market has started to affect the price of land, cooling sales in Chinese cities in the second quarter, according to a monitoring report by the Ministry of Land and Resources...
China's H1 property investment growth slows
Publication date: Wed 16 Jul 2014
Document type: Article
The growth of China's real estate investment slowed in the first half of the year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
Take a Wild Ride on Kenya's Minibuses
Publication date: Wed 16 Jul 2014
Document type: Video
Jeffrey Gettleman rides on the unregulated minibuses that are fighting a move toward electronic payments. Produced by: Matt Goldman. Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/1nJr6Z4
Angola é o país onde China tem mais obras
Publication date: Fri 11 Jul 2014
Angola has become the country with which China has the most contracts for construction, labour services and consultancies since 2012. The value of this portfolio is 7.6 billion US Dollars, ...
China's new pathway to urbanization will benefit world: UN officials
Publication date: Wed 9 Jul 2014
Document type: Article
UN officials said Tuesday that China's efforts to follow the new pathway to sustainable urbanization, which is human-centered and environmentally friendly, will benefit both the country and the world...
Local boosts for properties can backfire
Publication date: Wed 9 Jul 2014
Document type: Article
A number of local governments are planning to lift restrictions previously imposed on the purchase of properties. While the move will provide a much-needed boost to the market, it is hard to improve...
‘I am here until development comes’: Displacement, demolitions, and property rights in urbanizing Nigeria
Publication date: Tue 1 Jul 2014
Document type: Article
Government demolitions have displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Abuja, Nigeria's Federal Capital Territory, over the last decade. This housing insecurity is not simply the result of...
Anhui tightens rules covering historic buildings
Publication date: Wed 18 Jun 2014
Document type: Article
Anhui province will create "identity numbers" for local ancient buildings and ban the removal of ancient structures from the province. A government statement released on Wednesday came days after...
Will China's housing market hit the iceberg?
Publication date: Tue 17 Jun 2014
Document type: Article
China's property market has been losing steam for most of this year with sales plummeting and prices sliding.
Africa has to make the best of China ties
Publication date: Mon 16 Jun 2014
Trading blocs are key to continent's economic growth, says Mozambique-born academic Sergio Chichava.
Income gap widening in China: survey
Publication date: Sat 14 Jun 2014
China's accelerating urbanization will create many business opportunities in a variety of fields while posing new challenges to city planners, said a senior executive of a foreign company....
Chinese minibus starts local production
Publication date: Sat 14 Jun 2014
Document type: Article
Competition is set to intensify in South Africa's taxi industry with the launch of a locally produced Chinese minibus into the market.
China’s Growing Economic Role in Africa: Findings and policy implications of the AERC China-Africa economic relations project
Publication date: Sat 14 Jun 2014
Document type: Article
How should Africa engage strategically with China to take maximum advantage of the opportunities and confront the challenges posed by the rapidly expanding economic role of China in Africa? That was...
