Housing fair is held in Beijing

Potential home owners visit a major housing fair, along with property developers and financiers, in downtown Beijing April 6, 2012. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said last month that home prices remain far from a reasonable level and relaxing curbs could cause "chaos" in the property market, indicating no imminent relaxing of cooling measures. Chinese stocks slumped over concern that prolonging the government's crackdown on real-estate speculation will deepen a slowdown in the world's second-biggest economy. UPI/Stephen Shaver