Home buyers learn about new apartment information at a sale center in Jinan, capital of east China's Shandong Province, Nov. 9, 2012. More Chinese cities saw home price rise month on month in November amid the government's strict measures to cool the sector, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said on Dec. 18, 2012. In November, 53 out of a statistical pool of 70 major cities recorded higher new home prices than a month earlier, NBS statistics showed. This was up from 35 in October. (Xinhua/Guo Xulei)