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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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Parcel Subdivision

Splitting a parcel so that part can be transferred or developed separately.

3 cases

Binhai New Area, Tianjin · 1,545 mu · 103 ha

Transforming a Logistics Park into the Tianjin International Agricultural Products Trading Centre

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

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

Yinan Economic Development Zone, Linyi, Shandong · 199 mu · 13.3 ha

Clearing and Redeveloping a Court-frozen Steel Pipe Plant in the Kelute Area, Yinan, Linyi

临沂市科鲁特片区腾退整备

A bankrupt steel pipe plant's 199-mu site was frozen by repeated court seizures. A county state-owned company bought the bank debt, had the court auction the land, won it, then subdivided it for four new manufacturers — all in production within 18 months of launch.

Floor area ratio 0.3 → above 1.2

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