By Jackie Cai
Chinese developer Country Garden Holdings Co. took steps to prevent its debt crisis from worsening, paying off a yuan note ahead of schedule and selling a stake in a mall operator.
The distressed builder’s onshore unit, Country Garden Real Estate Group Co., repaid in full an 800 million yuan ($111 million) bond with a put option that expired Wednesday, it said in a filing to the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. It…