Wei Lili is running out of investment options. Apartment prices in her city of Wuhan are beyond her reach even after a recent property slump, and the volatile stock market is too great a risk.
"It takes more than a million yuan to buy a flat, and stocks are like a roller coaster - they are too soul-wrenching for me," said Wei, 52, a government worker in the central Chinese city. She's lost almost half of a 30,000 yuan ($US4800) investment in stocks, she said, declining to elaborate.
