** Shares of Country Garden 2007.HK lead rally in Chinese
property developers, rising as much as 10.2% to HK$3.12, their
highest since Nov 16
** Stock is the biggest pct gainer in Hang Seng Index .HSI
and Hang Seng property sub-index .HSNP
** China's central bank will offer cheap loans to financial
firms for buying bonds issued by property developers, four
people with direct knowledge of the matter said, the strongest
policy support yet for the crisis-hit sector urn:newsml:reuters.com:*:nL8N32J1EW
** The People's Bank of China is also drafting a "white
list" of good-quality and systemically important developers that
would receive wider support from Beijing to improve their
balance sheets, two of the sources said
** Stock of Longfor Group 0960.HK , Hopson Development
0754.HK , China Overseas Land 0688.HK , China Resources Land
1109.HK , China Vanke 2202.HK , CIFI Holdings 0884.HK and
Greentown China 3900.HK rise between 2.1% and 8.4%
** Hang Seng Mainland Properties Index .HSMPI jumps as
much as 4.7% and the Hang Seng Composite Index tracking
properties and construction stocks .HSCIPC surges as much as
2.4%
** The Hang Seng Composite Index .HSCI gains 0.6% and the
Hang Seng Index .HSI climbs 0.5%
(Reporting by Donny Kwok)
((donny.kwok@thomsonreuters.com))