China Business Video – China to have 6.5 million more affordable rental housing units in 2021-2025
By Reuters
15 January 2022 |
12:05 pm
China will have 6.5 million more affordable rental housing units during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), an official of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development said on Tuesday.
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