Chapter I The Real Estate Industry in National Economy in: History, Positioning and Trends -- Chapter II China’s Real Estate Industry: Review and Forecast -- Chapter III China’s Real Estate Finance – ‘Gold Master’: Evolution and Forecast -- Chapter IV The Social Security of China’s...

In recent months, pictures of millions of homes flattened and washed away by the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 26 December, 2004, have been seen on the media. Housing vulnerability is an obvious component of the disaster; the centrality of housing to the material losses suffered, the apparent ease...