TREE NEWS update: China’s Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development will push forward three foundational systems for real estate, all project-based, said Zhang Xuetao, director of the ministry’s real estate market supervision department, at a State Council Information Office briefing. For development, the focus is on fully implementing the project-company system to settle who is the independent implementing entity of a project: one project corresponds to one company, which exercises independent legal-person rights, and headquarters are strictly barred from illegally siphoning project-company funds.
China Plans Project-Company System for Real Estate Development
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The project-company model is a structural fix aimed at one of the sector's core governance failures: developers pooling presale and project-level capital across a group, then leaving individual projects insolvent when the parent strains. Ring-fencing each project as its own legal person shifts risk assessment toward the asset rather than the parent's balance sheet, which matters for lenders, bondholders and presale buyers alike. Whether the ban on headquarters siphoning funds is enforceable in practice — and how existing group structures are migrated — is the open question.
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