9月份中国房价继续总体下跌
Chinese new home Prices fell across the country in September, underscoring fears over the growth of the world's second biggest economy.
9月份中国全国新房价格出现下跌，凸显出人们对这个全球第二大经济体增长的担忧。Prices fell in 69 of 70 cities in September from the previous month.
今年9月，被调查的70个城市中，69个城市的房价较上个月出现了下跌。
The overAll price decline was 1.3 per cent compared to last September, according to a Reuters analysis of the data released by the National Bureau of Statistics.
根据路透社(Reuters)对中国国家统计局(National Bureau of Statistics)发布的数据所作分析，与去年9月份相比，房价总体下跌了1.3%。
This slightly deepens the falls already seen in previous months. Chinese new home prices declined in 68 of the 70 cities in August, and fell across 64 of the cities in July.
这一跌幅略大于此前几个月的跌幅。今年8月，70个被调查城市中有68个城市的新房价格出现下跌，而7月份房价下跌城市的数目则是64个。China's real estate sector is a major driving force for economic growth, as local governments who fund the infrastructure projects that boost GDP often rely on land sales to property developers for financing.
在中国，地方政府用基建项目拉动国内生产总值(GDP)，经常会依靠向房地产商卖地的方式融资，房地产业也因此成为中国经济增长的主要推动因素。China's economy grew by 7.3 per cent in the third quarter, its slowest pace of expansion since the depths of the financial crisis in early 2009. Meanwhile, a slowdown in construction activity following years of frenzied property investment. Industrial demand has slackened to the point that steel in some Chinese markets is as cheap as cabbages.
今年第三季度，中国经济同比增长了7.3%，这是自2009年初金融危机以来的最慢增速。与此同时，在多年疯狂的地产投资之后，建筑活动的增长也已放缓。工业需求极度疲软，以至于在中国部分市场上，钢铁已经卖到了白菜价。Last last month, the Beijing government moved to support the real estate market with measures including allowing second home buyers to make lower down payments.
上个月，为支持房地产市场的发展，中国政府转而采取了允许降低二套房首付比例等措施。Chinese property developers have also resorted to increasingly imaginative tactics to shift unsold properties, including offering discounts to shoppers on Alibaba's Taobao website and even giving home buyers free chickens.
与此同时，为了将积压的物业转让出去，中国房地产开发商采取的销售手段越来越有想象力，其中包括向阿里巴巴(Alibaba)淘宝(Taobao)网站的购物者提供折扣，以及为购房者提供免费的活鸡等。
