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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Per-mu Performance Evaluation

Ranking firms by output or tax per mu to guide relocation, pricing and admission.

2 cases

Paojiang, Shaoxing Binhai New Area, Shaoxing, Zhejiang · 6,988 mu · 465.9 ha

Urban Renewal of "Shaoxin Valley", Shaoxing

绍兴市“绍芯谷”城市更新

Shaoxing relocated dozens of dyeing and chemical plants across county boundaries to dedicated industrial zones, then redeveloped the vacated 6,988-mu Mahai area as "Shaoxin Valley" for semiconductor-related industries. A menu of "four categories, ten methods" let each landowner choose self-redevelopment, joint development, buy-out or exit instead of blanket government acquisition.

Average floor area ratio after self-redevelopment below 1.0 → above 2.0

Bagongshan District, Huainan, Anhui · 346 mu · 23.1 ha

Repurposing the Bijiagang Coal Mine Site as a Green Food Industrial Park, Huainan

淮南市毕家岗矿区业态重塑

A coal mine closed in 2003 and ecologically restored in 2016 still sat idle because of overlapping tenure and an outdated mining land use. The district government recovered the land from the mining group, rezoned it, bundled factory land with utilities in a single supply package, and offers standard factories on a "lease first, transfer later" basis.

Floor area ratio 0.3 → above 1.5

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