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China Resources Land Limited
China Resources Land builds and sells apartments, offices, and shopping malls in China, and also collects rent from the ones it keeps.
China Resources Land is one of China's biggest property developers. It builds homes and sells them to ordinary families, and it builds offices and shopping malls that it often keeps and rents out instead of selling. It is majority-owned by the state-backed China Resources group, which gives it something rare in Chinese real estate these days: cheap access to money and a reputation for finishing what it starts.
The homebuilding side is the volume business. Buyers pay for apartments before they are finished, so the cash comes in early and the company spends it on land and construction. The rental side is the slower, steadier business. Malls like its MixC chain and grade-A offices bring in rent every month, and those recurring rents have become increasingly important as the company pushes an "asset-light" model — managing properties and collecting fees without carrying all the bricks on its own balance sheet. That shift matters because China's property market has been in a deep slump. Many private developers, including Country Garden and China Evergrande, buckled under debt they could not repay. China Resources Land survived because it borrowed conservatively and had a powerful parent. It has kept buying land when rivals were forced to sell, and it has leaned on its malls and offices to keep cash coming in while home sales weaken.
The company pays a growing dividend and has been one of the more trusted names in a sector investors otherwise avoid. The catch is that its fortunes still ride on Chinese housing demand and consumer spending in its malls. If families stop buying homes and shoppers tighten their belts, even the strongest developer feels it.
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