Liaoyuan

The bureau does not release the exact prices, but real estate agents say they are 20-30% off peaks in some of those cities and even further off in smaller ones not covered by the official survey, such as Liaoyuan.

"I was previously considered wealthy in the area," said Liu, who also owns some commercial property in the northeastern city of Liaoyuan.

The rags-to-riches story of 38-year-old founder Zhang Liaoyuan has also become a familiar tale for China’s younger generation.

Researchers Carl Gagliardi, Saskia Mioduszewski, Robert Tribble, Matthew Cervantes, Rory Clarke, Martin Codrington, Pibero Djawotho, James Drachenberg, Ahmed Hamed and Liaoyuan Huo, all affiliated with the Texas A&M Cyclotron Institute, along with numerous researchers from universities and  labs all over the world, have created the anti-hypertriton – a never-before-seen particle – by colliding gold nuclei at extremely high speeds.