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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.
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Revising the regulatory detailed plan to fit the redevelopment.
16 cases
杭州市杭钢半山基地转型发展
After its steel lines closed in 2016, Hangzhou Iron & Steel Group redeveloped 547 mu of its retained land into a computing and data-centre cluster. Fragmented allocated and leased parcels were re-plotted and transferred back to the group by agreement under new planning conditions, ending what the case calls an "institutional freeze" on the land.
Floor area ratio, IT innovation centre 0.7 → 1.5
福州市福兴经济开发区提质增效
A 30-year-old development zone in central Fuzhou, 80% built out, revitalized 1,100 mu of inefficient land without new construction-land quotas. Tools included a parcel-by-parcel data base, property-for-property swaps for expropriated warehouse owners, tiered 20–50-year industrial land leases and a much faster approval process.
Industrial output per mu 3.67 → 4.73 CNY million
西安市未央区团结片区城市更新
A 13-square-kilometre area of northern Xi'an with fragmented tenure — approved-but-unsupplied land, land awaiting recovery and urban-village plots — was renewed under a city-funded, district-implemented joint land reserve. A railway park was opened up to surrounding streets, and TOD development was planned around metro stations.
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
盐城市 8 号新生·数字科技创新园功能重塑
The vacant old campus of Yancheng No. 8 Middle School was rezoned from education to business office use and sold by public listing — with its buildings and a design scheme attached — to the district's urban investment company. A specialist operator turned classrooms into offices and labs and dormitories into talent apartments; 35 digital-technology firms now occupy 95% of the space.
Occupancy 0% → 95%
唐山市青龙湖数据生态中心改造升级
Land next to an oilfield production area, hemmed in by well sites and pipelines and left undeveloped, was taken back into the government reserve and rezoned as new-type industrial land combining research and manufacturing. Multi-storey factories cut the building footprint by about 77% compared with conventional single-storey layouts; more than 40 firms have moved in.
Factory footprint vs. conventional layout 73,736 → 16,936 m²
上海市江场西路申林木业城市更新
Two state-owned groups — the land's owner Bailian and the Shibei industrial-park company — formed a joint venture to redevelop an old timber-yard site. The land was taken into the reserve, rezoned for R&D at a floor area ratio of 3.5 and won back by the joint venture as Jing'an District's first "standard land" sale, with a contractual tax target of CNY 165 million a year.
Floor area ratio 0.32 → 3.5
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
赣州市南康区老旧家具产业集聚区集约提质
Three self-built furniture workshop clusters of tin sheds on 5–10-mu plots were re-plotted from 66 scattered holdings into 60 regular parcels. A transparent "land-share ratio" formula gave each firm net land in proportion to what it originally occupied, after deducting roads and fire lanes, so that firms could rebuild multi-storey factories themselves.
Average floor area ratio 0.5 → 2.0
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.
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
天津市国际农产品交易中心转型升级
Half-empty warehouse land in Tianjin's port area was rezoned for a wholesale agricultural market. Because national logistics policy lets wholesale-market land be valued at industrial rates, no land premium was payable on the change of use — saving the operator nearly CNY 600 million — and the remaining lease term carried over to 2061.
Floor space 100,000 → 770,000 m²
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
拉萨市龙腾大厦有机更新
Two run-down plots with incomplete land records — allocated government land and an old start-up centre of unclear title — were merged, rezoned commercial and transferred to a district-owned company together with the buildings on them. A minimum investment of CNY 250 million was written into the land contract; the new mixed office, retail and talent-housing complex opened in 2024.
Floor space under 15,000 → 52,307 m²
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
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.