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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.

Clear

Standard Land Supply

Industrial land sold with investment, output and environmental requirements fixed in advance.

3 cases

Jin'an District, Fuzhou, Fujian · 5,325 mu · 355 ha

Upgrading the Fuxing Economic Development Zone, Fuzhou

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

Jing'an District, Shanghai · 31 mu · 2.07 ha

Urban Renewal of the Shenlin Timber Site, Jiangchang West Road, Shanghai

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

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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