Time: April 26th, 2013
Topic: Supply-Demand Relationship and Per Capita Living Space
Lecturer: Xu Dianqing
Commentators: Niu Ruifeng, Deng Yusong, Wang Hongxin, Zhangqingyong

Prof. Xu Dianqing, the lecturer of the seminar, indicated the basic law of housing price changes and questions of statistical data. He introduced the scheme, principle and conclusion of suboptimum, criticized the housing bubble theory and analyzed housing demand, imported inflation as well as serious consequences caused by increasing issues in the field of currency. Finally, he put forward an objective to regulate and control the housing price.

Prof. Niu Fengrui criticized that the current measures to regulate and control the housing price did not achieve its goal. He thought that the nature of housing price is the question of social redistribution. He did not approve of land privatization, but advocated reasonable compensation. Prof. Deng Yusong thought these two years are the residential construction peak. The most intense period for housing demand and supply has already passed. Overall, the housing price is generally in a normal phase. Prof. Wang Hongxin stated that government should adjust land system to alleviate housing price pressure. Prof. Sheng Hong put forward the policy goals to regulate and control real estate and compared the land finance and taxation.