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China’s economic challenges gather steam as new loans plunge, property fears loom

hist78

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It seems like China's economy is coming to a grinding halt.

"New local currency bank loans plunged by 89% in July from June to 345.9 billion yuan ($47.64 billion), less than half the 800 billion yuan analysts had forecast in a Reuters poll."

 
Evergrande's US$340 billion debt load is massive! The other Chinese real estate developer, Country Garden, with $200 billion debts is also struggling recently to avoid defaulting loans.

"Evergrande has struggled to pay off its loans after officially defaulting on its debt in late-2021. The property company’s debt load reached 2.437 trillion yuan ($340 billion) by the end of last year. That is roughly 2% of China’s entire gross domestic product."

China’s Evergrande files for bankruptcy

 
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They created huge bubble. Price to income in Shanghai is 49.1. Worst cities in USA (New York and San Diego) are "only" 9.9. Houston is 2.4.

Worse is that lot of projects are "tofu dreg" and "rotten tail", so demand will not recover like it did in US.

 
They created huge bubble. Price to income in Shanghai is 49.1. Worst cities in USA (New York and San Diego) are "only" 9.9. Houston is 2.4.

Worse is that lot of projects are "tofu dreg" and "rotten tail", so demand will not recover like it did in US.


If local authorities can only meet targets by building stuff , needed or not , what else can they do?
 
Why is China not rushing to fix its ailing economy?


Honest question, why would they?

They very clearly stated that they are cracking down on economy, and they are clearly downing major businesses, after another.

This is a very intentional dismantlent of "overgrown" economic entities.

On the other hand, Chinese military hardware production is beating records due to cheap engineers and high value labour specialities like welders being available for peanuts.
 
Yer, even though short term economic growth rates from China are still rather good, it’s clear that there are substantial structural issues which are not being addressed in a manner consistent with long term consumer and total factor productivity led growth.

It’s even more concerning by the government’s recent behaviour during the revelations of China’s high youth unemployment, who instead of undertaking much needed reforms to address the issue, they instead remove it from their released statistics

Still they have atleast another ten years to continue to benefit from continued capital and investment fueled growth owing to the continued migration of agriculture rural based workers to urban employment within the industrial and service employment sectors.
 
Yer, even though short term economic growth rates from China are still rather good, it’s clear that there are substantial structural issues which are not being addressed in a manner consistent with long term consumer and total factor productivity led growth.

It’s even more concerning by the government’s recent behaviour during the revelations of China’s high youth unemployment, who instead of undertaking much needed reforms to address the issue, they instead remove it from their released statistics

Still they have atleast another ten years to continue to benefit from continued capital and investment fueled growth owing to the continued migration of agriculture rural based workers to urban employment within the industrial and service employment sectors.

It's probably too optimistic. PRC's structural problems and ideological systems will not allow it to happen.

"Still they have at least another ten years to continue to benefit from continued capital and investment fueled growth owing to the continued migration of agriculture rural based workers to urban employment within the industrial and service employment sectors."
 
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