A Chinese province has told Beijing it needs help dealing with its debt problem, a sign of the strain caused by a collapse in land sales
An official think tank that carries out research for Guizhou said in a report this week that the debt problems confronting the government of the southwestern province urgently needed attention, but solutions were “exceptionally difficult to advance due to the limited financial resources.
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