Plan signals property construction is set to slow

The Five-Year Plan includes numerous targets and projections for how China’s economy will develop over the next few years. Among them are a couple that highlight growing structural constraints on property construction: a lower ceiling for the area of land that can be rezoned and a much reduced target for the urban development schemes that have been a powerful driver of property construction over recent years.

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