Property developers need close relationships with banks—but not usually equity stakes in them. A bank investment by the world’s largest property company by assets hints at further trouble in the Chinese financial system.
China Evergrande Group, which has an enterprise value of roughly $134 billion—more than Western property giants Simon Property and Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield—said Thursday that it is putting 13.2 billion yuan into a small Chinese lender called Shengjing Bank, raising its stake to 36% from 17%....
体制的优势体现出来了……