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BIZCHINA / Review & Analysis
House owners' right
(China Daily)
Updated: 2007-09-08 10:52
It is not unusual for house b
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CCB gets go-ahead for A-share listing
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-09-08 10:52
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A branch of China Construction Bank in Shanghai. The securities regulator
approved the?bank's A-share listing plan on September 7. [newsphoto]?
The China Securities Regulatory Commission on Friday approved the
yuan-denominated A-share listing plan of the China Construction Bank
(CCB), one of the nation's four big State-owned commercial banks.
The approval will make CCB to lead the return of the giant red-chip
companies, including China Mobile, the world's largest handset operator
by the number of subscribers, and PetroChina, the nation's largest oil
producer, to the mainland stock exchanges.
Red chips are mainland firms incorporate outside the mainland and listed
in Hong Kong.
The bank, Chinese partner of Bank of America, said it plans to issue no
more than 9 billion shares, less than 3.85 percent of the expanded
capital after the initial public offering (IPO)?
CCB is expected to raise some 60 billion yuan (US$8 billion) if the IPO
is priced at the closing price of HK$6.84 per share in Hong Kong on
Friday. It said all the money will be used to boost its capital adequacy
ratio.
The size of CCB's IPO is set to overtake 46.6 billion yuan of the
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) in October last year to
become the biggest ever domestic share listing.
The bank may start trading of its A-shares on the Shanghai Stock Exchange
before October 1, a source with its research department said.
Earnings per share with CCB in the first half of 2007 was 0.15 yuan,
compared with 0.12 yuan of CBC and Bank of China.
Its non-performing loans ratio stood at 2.95 percent at the end of June,
lower than the 3.29 percent half a year ago.
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uyers to find that their compounds are not
constructed according to the blueprint they were showed. The changes made
are always in the interests of the developers.
It could be insufficient green areas or service facilities, or even
houses rented for commercial use, not shown in the blueprint.
Ministry of Construction statistics show that about 80 percent of
developers in Beijing make changes to the blueprints of their
construction projects after being approved by the municipal urban
planning department.
Officials from the ministry said earlier in the week that developers must
make public the changes they are going to make and have the necessary
permission to do so.
Currently, there is no specific law that prohibits developers from making
changes to approved blueprints, however there is a section on the
management of urban real estate that stipulates all urban real estate
supervisory departments must ensure developers have followed approved
blueprints.
This means that developers have no right to change approved blueprints
without permission from the relevant urban planning departments.
But the reality is that many developers are taking advantage of the
loopholes in the law while the watchdogs turn a blind eye.
As a result, complaints from house owners and disputes between them and
developers are on the increase.
The new property law that takes effect on October 1, will hopefully, make
a difference.
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