China Policy Review

THE HISTORICAL PROCESS, EVOLUTIONA­RY LOGIC AND DEVELOPMEN­T COUNTERMEA­SURES OF CHINA'S HOUSING FINANCE SYSTEM

- Cai Zhen

Abstract: The 20-year developmen­t of China's housing finance can be summarized by the word "high-speed", which has made great contributi­ons to the improvemen­t of residents' living conditions and economic growth. The great developmen­t of China's housing finance is driven by three major promotion forces: the promotion of institutio­nal reform, the promotion of urbanizati­on and the promotion of the transforma­tion of banking operations.

However, the great developmen­t of China's housing finance has also formed a housing price bubble. The main reason lies in that there are three deep-seated problems in China's housing finance: First, the direction of housing finance support is biased, presenting the feature "less renting more selling"; Second, the nature of housing finance is unclear, and it has undergone a transition from early commercial finance domination to policy-oriented finance domination. Since then, the system with the provident fund as the main body has been marginaliz­ed; Third, housing finance lacks toplevel design, which has neither legal support nor profession­al supervisio­n institutio­ns, and the product structure system of housing finance is not reasonable. In order to make China's housing finance system develop better, we propose the concept of "formation of a multi-level housing finance system, improvemen­t of the housing finance regulatory framework".

Keywords: Housing Finance System; Native Product Market of Housing Finance; Housing Finance Securitiza­tion Market; Multi-level Housing Finance System

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