More Chinese cities saw home prices rise in December last year from November despite government's repeated firm stance on property tightening.

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BEIJING, Jan.18 (Xinhua) -- More Chinese cities saw home prices rise in December last year from November despite government's repeated firm stance on property tightening, data released Friday by the National Bureau of Statistics(NBS) showed.
In December 2012, 54 cities out of a statistical pool of 70 major Chinese cities, up from 53 in November, recorded higher new home prices than a month earlier, according to the NBS. 
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