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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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Secondary Land Market Transfer

Land use rights sold between users on the secondary market rather than through government resale.

3 cases

Heping District, Shenyang, Liaoning · 6.9 mu · 0.46 ha

Reuse of a Vacant Former Bank Building for the Stomatological Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang

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

Kunming Economic and Technological Development Zone, Kunming, Yunnan · 72.5 mu · 4.83 ha

Subdivision and Transfer of Surplus Industrial Land from Qicai Yunnan Qingfengxiang Tea, Kunming

昆明市七彩云南庆沣祥分割转让

A tea company that no longer needed 72.5 mu of its 163.8-mu industrial site had the surplus split off as a separate parcel and sold it on the secondary market to a developer of standard factories. Because the law requires 25% of investment to be completed before land can be transferred, the buyer was allowed to register the transfer in advance and start building, with final title issued once the threshold was met.

Original parcel 163.8 → 91.3 mu

Xiangtan Economic Development Zone, Xiangtan, Hunan · 1,510 mu · 100.7 ha

Revitalizing the Bankrupt Taifu Heavy Industry Site for Zoomlion, Xiangtan

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.

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