This poem by Du Fu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, is probably familiar to those who have attended school. In today's China, the meaning of this poem has not lost with the passage of time, but has become more obvious. China's real estate reform has been going on for several years, but the price of urban real estate is getting higher and higher.
There is a saying that real estate has become the first of the new "three big mountains" that are pressing on the people of China. Judging from the present situation, some ordinary people have to spend most of their savings to buy a house, some ordinary people can't afford to buy a house all their lives, and some rich people have multiple houses.
The discontent of ordinary people has been spreading. So the central government stepped up many measures to strengthen macro-control and tried to lower the real estate price. But judging from the recent situation, the effect is not obvious. I'm not an expert in the real estate industry, and I dare to make suggestions for the real estate reform in China. I don't want to hear a report from a research center in the State Council that the real estate reform in China is basically unsuccessful.
Why is the real estate price in China so abnormally high? The primary land market in China is monopolized by the government. Therefore, real estate developers only need a land source for real estate development; Government. How does the government acquire land? There are two ways: first, the government is the representative of urban land owners.
The government actually owns the ownership of urban land; Second, the government can expropriate collective land in rural and suburban areas according to law. As far as I know, collective land in rural and suburban areas cannot enter the market through free circulation, but can only be expropriated by the government.
In the case that the primary land market in China is monopolized by the government, the market price of land cannot be formed at all. Developers apply to the government for construction land, on the one hand, the government gains huge profits from it. This part of the profiteering is finally paid by the buyer, that is, the ordinary people; On the other hand, rent-seeking by developers and government officials is inevitable. Therefore, we can say that the government is "competing for profits with the people". In a sense, China real estate has become one of the new "three big mountains" in China, and the government needs to bear a great responsibility.
Turn China's real estate into a so-called industry. The so-called industry here is that you can buy a house-the speculation of selling a house benefits from it. China's overpopulation determines that China cannot regard real estate as an industry, that is, individuals are not allowed to make huge profits by buying multiple houses. The shortage of real estate will be a long-term feature of real estate in China.