Urban China Land Redevelopment Cases

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How Chinese cities are reusing
inefficient land

Twenty-nine case studies from the 2026 national collection on revitalizing existing and inefficiently used land — from aerospace parks on old textile sites to a soy sauce brewery that bought out its neighbours. Each case is translated in full, with its location, key figures and the land and planning tools it used.

Cases
29
Provinces
19
Themes
6
Land covered
29 km²

Geographic spread

Where the cases are located

Province-level administrative boundaries come from the site's local China boundary dataset; points show the case cities.

Points mark the city of each case, not the exact site. The boundary geometry is loaded locally; no third-party basemap tiles are used.

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Advance Registration of Transfer

Registering a transfer in advance so the buyer can build before statutory conditions are met.

1 case

Kunming Economic and Technological Development Zone, Kunming, Yunnan · 72.5 mu · 4.83 ha

Subdivision and Transfer of Surplus Industrial Land from Qicai Yunnan Qingfengxiang Tea, Kunming

昆明市七彩云南庆沣祥分割转让

A tea company that no longer needed 72.5 mu of its 163.8-mu industrial site had the surplus split off as a separate parcel and sold it on the secondary market to a developer of standard factories. Because the law requires 25% of investment to be completed before land can be transferred, the buyer was allowed to register the transfer in advance and start building, with final title issued once the threshold was met.

Original parcel 163.8 → 91.3 mu

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