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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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Bankruptcy & Judicial Auction

Distressed or court-seized land unlocked through debt purchase, auction or court-confirmed transfer.

4 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

Yinan Economic Development Zone, Linyi, Shandong · 199 mu · 13.3 ha

Clearing and Redeveloping a Court-frozen Steel Pipe Plant in the Kelute Area, Yinan, Linyi

临沂市科鲁特片区腾退整备

A bankrupt steel pipe plant's 199-mu site was frozen by repeated court seizures. A county state-owned company bought the bank debt, had the court auction the land, won it, then subdivided it for four new manufacturers — all in production within 18 months of launch.

Floor area ratio 0.3 → above 1.2

Zhaijia Town, Linyi County, Dezhou, Shandong · 176 mu · 11.7 ha

Demolition and Renovation of a Bankrupt Packaging Plant for the Zhuoyue New Materials Industrial Park, Dezhou

德州市卓越高新材料产业园拆改结合

A new-materials company bought all the assets of a bankrupt packaging firm by negotiation, then had a court confirm the sale and lift encumbrances so title could be transferred. Existing buildings were assessed one by one — some kept and refitted, most rebuilt — and the project started construction 45 days after obtaining the land.

Floor area ratio below 0.3 → 1.02

Xiangtan Economic Development Zone, Xiangtan, Hunan · 1,510 mu · 100.7 ha

Revitalizing the Bankrupt Taifu Heavy Industry Site for Zoomlion, Xiangtan

湘潭市泰富重工整备焕新

A 1,510-mu heavy-machinery plant left empty by bankruptcy was taken over through court-supervised restructuring by Zoomlion, a firm whose products could use the existing sheds. Missing drawings and approvals were retro-fitted, and indicators were balanced across the area so a noisy test track could be moved away from homes — saving 300 mu of new land.

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