And in the political sphere, finance has become the great defender of deregulating monopolies and «freeing» land rent and asset - price gains from taxation,
translating its economic power and campaign contributions into the political power to capture control of public
financial regulation.
The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Housing and Urban - Rural Development agrees, and almost as if they read the recommendations to my paper, just launched the «Solar Roofs Program» under new
regulations 《 太阳能光电建筑应用财政补助资金管理暂行办法 》 or «Application of Building - mounted Solar Photovoltaic
Financial Assistance Fund Management Interim Measures» (available here in Chinese or Google -
translated English; see also the accompanying Implementation Opinion in Chinese and Google - translation) to jump start the domestic solar market that has been hiterto virtually non-existent.