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Housing Supply and Demand

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ID: 2228 Upper Intermediate
  Housing prices in China continue to spiral higher and higher. Is there an end in sight or will more and more Chinese people be shut out of buying a home? In this lesson, ChinesePod gets in on the debate .
Tue Jul 09 2013 | John, Dilu
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SIMPLIFIED PINYIN ENGLISH  
供不应求 gōngbùyìngqiú supply isn't enough to meet demand
上涨 shàngzhǎng to increase
合理 hélǐ reasonable
遵循 zūnxún to abide by
鹏飞，房价又要涨了！
Péngfēi ， fángjià yòu yào zhǎng le ！
Peng Fei, housing prices have risen again!
你怎么知道？
nǐ zěnme zhīdào ？
How do you know?
新闻都说了，成交量大大增加，供求关系也改变了，现在又是供不应求了。供不应求了嘛，价格肯定要上涨了。
xīnwén dōu shuō le ， chéngjiāoliàng dàdà zēngjiā ， gōngqiúguānxì yě gǎibiàn le ， xiànzài yòu shì gōngbùyìngqiú le 。 gōngbùyìngqiú le ma ， jiàgé kěndìng yào shàngzhǎng le 。
All the news reports said so. The volume has increased greatly and the relationship between supply and demand has changed. Now there simply isn't enough supply to meet demand. If the supply doesn't meet demand, then prices are bound to increase.
不会吧。怎么调控了半天，不见跌只见涨啊！
bùhuì ba 。 zěnme tiáokòng le bàntiān ， bùjiàn diē zhǐ jiàn zhǎng a ！
No way. How can they have been controlling the market for so long and we still don't see a fall in prices, only more increases!
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