Floorspace

In the first nine months of the year , the amount of residential floorspace sold fell by nearly 16 per cent .

今年头9个月，居民住宅销售面积下降近16%。

They suggested that builders started work on 19 % more residential floorspace in May , compared with a year earlier , and sold 18 % more .

这些数据表明，承建商在5月开始动工的住宅建筑比起一年前的多出19%，售出的也增加了18%。

Residential property sales fell 9.4 per cent in floorspace terms in the first seven months of the year compared with the same period in 2013 , according to government statistics .

根据中国官方统计数字，今年头7个月，住宅地产销售面积比2013年同期下跌了9.4%。

While growth in completed mall floorspace in China did moderate slightly on an annual basis last year , the amount of mallspace in the pipeline in China remains enormous .

尽管去年中国商场完工面积同比的确只是略有增长，但中国正在建设中的商场数量依然巨大。

Weighting the cities by population , and weighting the mix of new and existing properties by floorspace , The Economist has tried to rebuild China 's abandoned house-price index ( see chart ) from its constituent parts .

按人口来定这个城市的权重，还按建筑面积来定新建和现有房产的权重，经济学人试图通过这种方法来重新得出已被弃用的房价指数（如图所示）。