主题：中国的再分配相对来说还是要温情一些 -- songcla

If anyone had asked me a week ago what home ownership rates in China I would have made a half educated guess of 40 to 60%, let’s say 60% in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Guangzhou and half that or lower for other cities. So when The Economist recently mentioned in passing that home ownership among China’s urban households was 80% I nearly fell off my chair. Could this really be true and how could my half educated guess be so far wide of the mark?

In global terms 80% home ownership is extraordinarily high. According to the London Times (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article1567419.ece) only 70% of UK households own their own home on the other hand the European