--FILE--cinese lavoratori migranti costruire impalcature presso il cantiere per la costruzione di un progetto immobiliare nella contea di Ganyu, Lianyungang city east Chinas Ji
--FILE--Chinese migrant workers build scaffoldings at the construction site of a real estate project in Ganyu county, Lianyungang city, east Chinas Jiangsu province, 31 December 2013. Home prices dropped month on month in more Chinese cities in January, adding to signs of a gradually cooling property sector, official data showed on Monday (24 February 2014). Of a statistical pool of 70 major Chinese cities, 62 saw a month-on-month rise in new home prices, while prices in six cities declined, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said in a statement. Only two cities saw month-on-month drops in new home prices in December, according to previous data. The average month-on-month price increase for new homes slowed slightly to 0.49 percent in January from 0.51 percent in December, with the average in four first-tier cities, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, slowing 0.1 percentage point from December, the statement said.