--- type: "Topics" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/topics/39945114.md" description: "Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development data floods screens: Are commercial residential properties enough for 30 billion people?I was utterly shocked by a set of data released by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development: 600 million buildings!You read that right, not 600 million units, not 600 million rooms, but 600 million buildings.This is the final figure obtained after the state mobilized 2.6 million technical personnel and spent a full three years conducting a carpet-style investigation of 100% of the country's cities and natural villages." datetime: "2026-04-15T16:46:18.000Z" locales: - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/topics/39945114.md) - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/topics/39945114.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/topics/39945114.md) author: "[浩浩小课堂](https://longbridge.com/en/profiles/19784218.md)" --- # Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development da… ## Comments (3) - **Claire33 · 2026-04-16T02:40:01.000Z**: How is that possible……… - **我不想说 · 2026-04-15T22:18:20.000Z · 👍 1**: More than ten years ago, Ren Zhiqiang already said that the only way to keep housing prices up is to blow them up. - **嘿嘿^ · 2026-04-15T17:12:01.000Z · 👍 1**: Okay, dismantle it.