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SHANGHAI, China’s financial centre, does not make it easy on outsiders wishing to buy who are single are banned from buying property. The married are welcome butonly so long as they have paid local taxes for two years and make nearly a third of thepurchase in cash. Shenyang, China’s biggest northern city, is far more welcoming. Anyone canbuy a home there. All to little effect: housing prices in Shanghai, five times more expensive thanthose in Shenyang, have risen by 20% over the past year; those in the northern city haveedged down.
上海是中国的金融中心，对于外来打工者来说，想在这里安家置业绝对不是一件容易的事。单身的非长驻居民不允许在这里买房。已婚人士购房是欢迎的，但前提是已经向地方政府上缴了两年税款并现金支付至少三分之一的购房款。中国北方的城市沈阳远比上海“热情好客”。任何人都可以在沈阳买房。但仍然无济于事，上海的房价比沈阳贵5倍，并且在去年一年里增长了20%，与此同时，北方城市房价却小幅下降。
This bifurcation is a worry for the government, which wants to spur growth without inflatingbubbles. A divergence in housing prices between wealthy cities and the hinterland is a familiarproblem in other countries—just look at London and Lincolnshire, say, or New York andNebraska. But the divisions are starker in China. In its most prosperous cities, already giddyprices continue to shoot up, while unsold flats pile up in markets where valuations were low tobegin with. Moreover, construction h