Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan has said that efforts should be made next year to strengthen and improve the macro-control of the country's real estate market.

China has taken a series of measures in 2005 to stabilize housing price and promote the construction of energy-saving buildings, said Zeng in a letter to a national work meeting of the construction sector held in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.

Zeng has required relevant departments to make good city planning and rural construction next year, and to further improve the macro-control of the real estate market.

The two-day national work meeting of the construction sector opened in Nanjing on Monday, with the purpose of reviewing the country's construction work in 2005 and making arrangements for the work of 2006.

(Xinhua News Agency December 27, 2005)