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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 Price Incentives

Reduced or offset land price payments for redevelopment.

2 cases

Gusu District, Suzhou, Jiangsu · 61.5 mu · 4.1 ha

Self-redevelopment of the No. 1 Silk Factory — Conservation Through Use, Suzhou

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.

Chidian, Jinjiang, Quanzhou, Fujian · 206 mu · 13.8 ha

Parcel Merger and Term Extension for the Anta Jinjiang Smart Industrial Park, Quanzhou

泉州市安踏(中国)有限公司并宗开发

Sportswear maker Anta merged five adjacent industrial parcels bought between 2005 and 2024. A Jinjiang rule let the merged site take the longest remaining term (to 2074) rather than the shortest, for a top-up premium of CNY 6.4 million, and planning indicators were balanced across the merged site, raising the floor area ratio from 1.4 to 4.0.

Floor area ratio 1.4 → 4.0

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