| 31.03.2009 - Chinese city turns cadres into real estate agents |
| From Reuters: A local government in an eastern Chinese city has taken its efforts to prop up the economy to new heights, ordering cadres to act as real estate agents with a quota of selling -- or buying -- at least one flat each. The order by Hanting District, in the city of Weifang in Shandong province, marks one of the more extreme measures that local officials have come up with as they try to tackle the economic slowdown.....Full Article: Source |