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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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Warehousing & Logistics

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

Xialu District, Huangshi, Hubei · 10 mu · 0.67 ha

"Workers' Teahouse + Happiness Canteen" — Reusing an Idle Warehouse, Huangshi

黄石市“工友茶馆+幸福食堂”功能提升

An empty steelworks-company warehouse beside an old workers' housing estate was turned into a retro teahouse and subsidized community canteen for older residents. Using a five-year transition policy that keeps the original owner and land use unchanged, the subdistrict office avoided any transfer of title and paid for the hard renovation, while an operator fitted it out and runs it.

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

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