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.
Land sold with a design scheme, industrial targets or heritage obligations written into the contract.
6 cases
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.
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%
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A coal mine closed in 2003 and ecologically restored in 2016 still sat idle because of overlapping tenure and an outdated mining land use.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
郑州市亳都新象历史文化街区活化利用
A vacant former college campus inside the protected core of the Shang dynasty capital site was acquired, rezoned for mixed commercial and cultural use, and sold with heritage obligations — height limits, street pattern and a performance bond — written into the land contract. The courtyard-style district opened in 2025 and drew over 500,000 visitors in its first holiday week.
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