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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Land as Equity

Land contributed as capital to a company or joint venture instead of being sold.

2 cases

Zhiqian Town, Jintan District, Changzhou, Jiangsu · 500 mu · 33.3 ha

Linking Rural Industries "Like Beads on a String" in Zhiqian Town, Jintan, Changzhou

常州市金坛区乡村产业“串珠成链”

A long, narrow crab-farming town with scattered small plots outside the urban development boundary revived about 500 mu of old village-enterprise land through 16 projects. Five industrial nodes along roads and rivers link processing, cold chain and logistics to the crab ponds; some collective land was contributed as equity, giving villages a share of rents.

Investment intensity 1.5 → 3.0 CNY million per mu

Malanshan Video Cultural and Creative Industrial Park, Changsha, Hunan · 123 mu · 8.2 ha

Integrating Land Rights for Hunan Broadcasting's "Colourful Box" Production Base, Changsha

长沙市湖南广电“七彩盒子”整合盘活

One TV production campus sat on three plots — allocated land held by the broadcaster and sold land split between the broadcaster and its media group — so it could not be planned, permitted or mortgaged as one. The allocated land was injected into the group as a capital contribution instead of paying a CNY 123 million land premium, and the other plot's owner name was simply changed, unifying all 123 mu under one company.

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