Energy-efficient housing pays off - 2005-02-23
Official figures maintain that China has constructed 320 million square meters of energy-efficient housing in urban areas since 1986.

The Ministry of Construction says that the housing has assisted in cutting energy consumption by over 10 million tons of coal, and therefore reduced emissions of carbon dioxide by over 20 million tons.
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Eight Ways to Make Money in Real Estate - 2005-02-23
There's only one thing we know for sure about real estate these days: Home prices across the country have shot up faster than at any time since reliable records began tracking them in the 1890s -- a national average of an inflation-adjusted 52 percent since 1997.

That's eriely similar to the stock market's bubble years, 1997 to 2000, when the S&P 500 index rose a bit more than 60 percent.
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