Chinese investors are in for a rough patch

Beijing

WEI Lili is running out of investment options. Apartment prices in her city of Wuhan are beyond her reach even after a recent property slump, and the volatile stock market is too great a risk.

"It takes more than a million yuan to buy a flat, and stocks are like a roller coaster - they are too soul-wrenching for me," said Ms Wei, 52, a government worker in the central Chinese city. She's lost almost half of a 30,000 yuan (S$6,640) investment in stocks, she said, declining to elaborate.