Dominique Fong
Wall Street Journal
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China’s Property Market, Once a Lifeline, Now Carries Economic Risks
Home prices are slumping in a number of smaller cities across China and officials express deepening concern with financial risks from years of rising property debt, illustrating why property sales aren’t expected to help bail out the economy as overall growth slows this year. → Read More
Warburg Pincus Plans $1 Billion Joint Venture in China
Private-equity firm Warburg Pincus and a Chinese partner plan to plow $1 billion into distressed properties in China’s megacities. → Read More
China Pushes Modern Farming as Tariffs Make U.S. Crops Costlier
Chinese agriculture is dominated by small farms with low crop yields, and the trade fight between the U.S. and China is giving Beijing fresh incentive to overhaul the sector as tariffs on American crops make those imports more expensive. → Read More
Flush With Ideas: Bill Gates Pursues the Toilet of the Future
The toilets of the future don’t need sewer lines. One doesn’t even need water to flush. They can run by themselves off the grid and turn human waste, or fecal sludge in the industry’s parlance, into sources of electricity and clean water. → Read More
China’s Got Talent—And Cities Are Fighting for a Piece of It
As China’s economy slows, dozens of cities like Xi’an are ramping up efforts to attract college graduates from mega-metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai and to siphon engineers, scientists and executives from one another. → Read More
Chinese Star Fan Bingbing Fined $70 Million for Tax Evasion
Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, who has been out of the public eye since a tax scandal broke three months ago, agreed to pay $70 million in fines to avoid criminal charges for tax evasion. → Read More
China’s Property-Market Woes Deepen With Rising Rents
Apartment rental prices are soaring across China, posing a new challenge to Chinese authorities and compounding the threat of sky-high housing prices to the economy. → Read More
Smaller Cities Are a Big Worry in China’s Too-Hot Property Market
China’s booming housing market has been a rare bright spot of late as the broader economy cools, but there are signs of trouble beneath the surface. → Read More
Smart Warehouses Speed Up E-Commerce in China
China’s e-commerce giants are starting to build a new crop of smart warehouses that can keep up with the surging growth of the world’s largest online retail sales market. → Read More
Theme Park Developments in China Hit Crossroads: Real or Pixie Dust?
Local governments across China have long relied on theme parks as a way to stoke real-estate development, but that strategy is facing new pressure as Beijing becomes more wary of the risks, such as developers’ taking on too much debt. → Read More
In China, Iowa Farmers Try Their Hand at Trade Diplomacy
As U.S. farmers found themselves this month at ground zero in the trade fight between Washington and Beijing, a group of Iowans barnstormed through China farm country, hoping to salvage relations with buyers who are already turning their backs on America’s harvest. → Read More
China’s Ghost Towns Haunt Its Economy
As debt piles up, whole new cities of apartment towers sit largely empty amid flashy amenities such as museums, stadiums and a replica of the Sphinx; residents wonder when they’ll have neighbors. → Read More
A Chinese Developer’s Pile of Overdue Loans Raises Fears It’s Just the Beginning
While Zhonghong is a relatively small developer of commercial real estate, its mounting defaults are seen as a bellwether of emerging problems in the real-estate sector that could ripple across the banking system. → Read More
Chinese Developer Cuts Losses After Tech Rescue Mission Fails
Property tycoon Sun Hongbin has played the white knight for troubled companies. Now he is letting one go, saying that he wasn’t able to save a debt-plagued streaming-video company. → Read More
China’s Approach to 2022 Winter Olympics: Faster, Higher, Stronger, Cheaper
A decade ago, China pulled out all the stops in an effort to dazzle the world for the Beijing Summer Olympics. But ahead of the 2022 Winter Games, the vision is relatively modest in a town that will host key events. → Read More
China’s Hot Housing Market Begins to Cool
In Beijing and Shanghai—two China’s largest housing markets—and other megacities, property sales have stalled and prices have dropped, and the high levels of debt that fueled a housing boom make the slowdown particularly perilous. → Read More
Warburg Pincus Leads $621 Million Fundraising Round in China’s Ziroom
Sequoia Capital, Tencent and seven other firms also invested in the Chinese apartment rental service provider. → Read More
Singapore Apartment Owners Ride Collective Sales to Riches
Property developers are coming up with new ways, including collective sales, to feed the growing appetite in Singapore and other large cities for apartments as places to live and investments to store their wealth. → Read More
Bringing Paris Style and New York Swagger to Hong Kong’s Office Market
A Hong Kong real estate tycoon opened the first phase of a billion-dollar redevelopment project with a new skyscraper that will test whether his formula for artsy office space can transform an old waterfront into a thriving business hub. → Read More
China Housing Sales by Value 3.4% Lower in October
Housing sales by value in October were 3.4% lower from a year earlier, according to calculations made by The Wall Street Journal based on National Bureau of Statistics data released Tuesday. → Read More