Workers at dorms on two Country Garden sites in Tianjin, a port city of 14 million people about 135 km (84 miles) southeast of Beijing, complained of months without pay

Country Garden, facing $192 billion worth of debt, is saddled with nearly 1 million unfinished homes in 3,121 projects spread across all of China's provinces

Reports that China's third biggest developer is considering a debt restructuring, coupled with a warning that it might report up to $7.6 billion in losses for the first half, spooked investors

Real estate giants like Country Garden and Sunac China saw their shares rise 18% and 17% while investors also piled into property firms’ bonds

The struggling real estate giant posted a combined loss of $81 billion for 2021 and 2022, deepening investor doubts about the viability of the restructuring deal

The embattled property developer's overdue results showed steep losses and liabilities prompting some to question the viability of its restructuring plan

But some analysts warned the move that sparked the share price rebound won’t be enough to turn around the country’s crippled property sector

China’s securities watchdog has loosened restrictions on the sector's equity fundraising in a bid to improve liquidity

China's property sector has over the past two years been thrust into a severe debt crisis with many developers defaulting on payments

The Economic Daily commentary comes with some property investors clamouring for more supportive measures for the sector from Beijing

Major Chinese cities have seen a rebound in home sales over the past month, as pent-up demand was unleashed after the roll back of stringent Covid curbs

The debt restructuring plan has not proven popular with Evergrande dollar bondholders, with one likening it to lending a bucket of rice and then being repaid back with two grains