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By Clare Jim and Liangping Gao HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) -A state-backed property project in China has received the first development loan under a so-called whitelist mechanism and two more major cities have eased home-buying curbs, state media reported, as concerns mount about the liquidation of Evergrande. The latest measures add to a string of policies deployed by the world’s second-largest economy over the past year to help revive the property sector, which accounts for a quarter of China’s GDP and has been hit by an unprecedented debt crisis after a regulatory crackdown on the sector’s …

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