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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.
Geographic spread
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.
Adaptive reuse of listed buildings, industrial heritage or historic districts.
8 cases
沈阳市医大附属口腔医院盘活利用
Three vacant office buildings on allocated land in central Shenyang were rezoned for healthcare and sold on the secondary land market — Liaoning's first online public listing with timed bidding for allocated land — to a neighbouring dental hospital, which converted them into a second campus without demolition.
Floor space brought back into use 0 → 19,078 m²
佳木斯市纺织厂家属楼保护利用
Four 1952 Soviet-style workers' housing blocks, listed as historic buildings but rated structurally unsafe, were bought out from 217 households and converted into 189 affordable rental homes. The case presents this as China's first conversion of a listed historic building into affordable rental housing, with rents funding upkeep.
黄石市“工友茶馆+幸福食堂”功能提升
An empty steelworks-company warehouse beside an old workers' housing estate was turned into a retro teahouse and subsidized community canteen for older residents. Using a five-year transition policy that keeps the original owner and land use unchanged, the subdistrict office avoided any transfer of title and paid for the hard renovation, while an operator fitted it out and runs it.
长春市水文化生态园一体化改造
Changchun's first waterworks (1932), closed in 2015, had become an informal public park but its land was still zoned industrial. The city took it into the reserve, allocated 25.95 ha back to the owner as parkland, and sold 3.33 ha of commercial and parking land as a bundle together with tourism and parking operating rights — a "combined supply" of land and concessions.
苏州市第一丝厂自主更新以用促保
China's oldest silk-reeling mill, on the moat at the southern gate of Suzhou's old city, was redeveloped by its own company as a culture, retail and hotel quarter for its 2026 centenary. Land use changed from industrial to commercial; the land premium of nearly CNY 70 million was assessed net of the high cost of building a basement car park around protected trees and heritage buildings.
郑州市亳都新象历史文化街区活化利用
A vacant former college campus inside the protected core of the Shang dynasty capital site was acquired, rezoned for mixed commercial and cultural use, and sold with heritage obligations — height limits, street pattern and a performance bond — written into the land contract. The courtyard-style district opened in 2025 and drew over 500,000 visitors in its first holiday week.
泸州市先市酱油厂升级焕新
A heritage-listed soy sauce brewery in a Sichuan market town expanded by buying out neighbouring vacant houses and a disused state grain depot, and by acquiring small leftover plots by agreement. Residential and public-service land was rezoned to industrial land with 30% commercial use allowed, linking brewing, a museum, homestays and an old-street tourism district.
Phase 1 output 1,000 → 2,000 tonnes per year
南京市金陵长乐坊城市更新
A former knitwear factory turned Walmart, vacant since 2020 and next to the Confucius Temple area, had mixed allocated and sold land and 29,000 m² of unpermitted buildings. After penalties were imposed, the buildings were regularized, the owner paid CNY 233 million to convert allocated industrial land to commercial use, and the complex reopened as a culture-and-retail destination.
Floor space brought back into use 0 → about 40,000 m²