Case library · Unofficial English translation · Glossary
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.
Renewal of old housing estates and their services.
2 cases
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.