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Deals on wheels: Housing prices drive young Chinese into RV living
Deals on wheels: Housing prices drive young Chinese into RV living
by  AFP

With its open kitchen, bathtub and electric piano, Chinese e-commerce worker Twiggy He's home is the envy of her colleagues -- even if it is located in their office carpark. The walls of office worker Li Conghui's homey white van are lined with bunk beds, and drawings and photographs of his children, who live with their mother in a different city.

Chinese ghost town of mansions reclaimed by farmers
Chinese ghost town of mansions reclaimed by farmers
by  AFP

Cattle wander between the concrete shells of half-finished mansions in northeastern China, some of the only occupants of a luxury complex whose crumbling verandas and overgrown arches are stark symbols of a housing market crippled by its own excess.

Young homebuyers take refuge in China's rust-belt towns
Young homebuyers take refuge in China's rust-belt towns
by  AFP

Fontana Fang has dived into China's cutthroat real estate market and emerged victorious, shaking off soaring prices to snap up a handsome property for next to nothing -- a distant dream for many. Fang, 29, is part of a wave of young Chinese choosing to invest in dirt-cheap real estate in declining and remote industrial regions, ditching China's modern, expensive metropolises.

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