China’s Finance Ministry has allocated an additional five billion yuan (S$973.6 million) for the construction of public housing and to upgrade shanty towns, said Reuters.
The move signifies that Beijing is ramping up efforts to use fiscal spending to support economic growth, the report added.
“In order to promote steady and relatively fast economic growth and support various localities to build public rental housing and renovate shanty towns, the central government will allocate another 5 billion yuan to support such projects,” the Ministry of Finance said.
To date, 98.7 billion yuan (S$19.3 billion) has been earmarked to subsidise the construction of public housing and make improvements to shanty towns, added the Ministry.
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