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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

China Evergrande Group last traded on the Hong Kong exchange on March 18, 2022 at 1.65 Hong Kong dollars ($0.13) per share, before being suspended on March 21.

The company also posted a loss of 39.25 billion yuan ($5.38 billion) for the six months ended June, with total liabilities of 2.39 trillion yuan.

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[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago

Evergrande? What do they do?

[-] nomecks@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago

Take deposits for housing and use it to solicit more deposits for housing, without actually building any useable housing.

[-] Cheers@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Just to add, they did start building, but they just started building as construction costs were increasing, so they ended up negative on all of their construction costs.

Construction companies famously tore down fully built buildings because evergrande couldn't afford them..

[-] nomecks@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

They built a pile of tofu dreg buildings that'll all fall down inside of ten years.

[-] zefiax@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago
[-] jhulten@infosec.pub 6 points 10 months ago
[-] theodewere@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

real debt, though.. ha ha..

[-] Rayspekt@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago
[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Oh my god it’s still the commercial

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 7 points 10 months ago

They were one of several construction companies that built a ton of buildings in China fueled by municipal and corporate debt. It works great when the local economy grows.

The Chinese economy has stopped growing at the levels to sustain the market conditions to pay back the debt. There are doubts that China could even get back to those levels of economic growth due to its aging population.

[-] Tar_alcaran@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Nothing, but they got paid for lots and lots of houses and offices. And that a problem.

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