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🗓️ 25 August 2025
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From the BBC World Service: Chinese property giant Evergrande's shares have been delisted from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange; it was once China's largest real estate firm but collapsed under a mountain of debt. Today, we'll trace its spectacular rise and fall. Rare earths have been a major sticking point in trade negotiations between China and the United States. China has dominated the rare earths market, but could Australia become a rival?
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1:01.3 | Chinese property giant Ever Grant delisted after its spectacular fall. Live from the UK, this is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. |
1:11.3 | Hello, I'm Nick Qureshi in Fort Leanna Burn. Just a few years ago, Evergrand was a shining |
1:16.1 | example of China's economic miracle. But the real estate firm's sprawling empire was built on |
1:22.0 | $300 billion of borrowed money. When Beijing brought in new rules in 2020 to control the amount of cash |
1:29.0 | that developers could borrow, Everground started offering major discounts and eventually defaulted |
1:34.4 | on some international loans. Now it has been taken off the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after 15 |
1:40.6 | years of trading. So how could such a beacon of industry collapse so spectacularly? |
1:46.7 | The BBC's Will Bain is with me. Hi Will. |
1:49.2 | Morning, Nick. It's hard to overstate how big this firm was. How massive was this company? |
1:58.6 | Yeah, you're spot on. The scale of this firm at its height, |
2:02.3 | it was literally building millions of homes |
2:05.3 | in almost 300 cities across China at one point. |
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