{"id":332971,"date":"2025-12-07T15:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332971\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T15:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:02:08","slug":"shenzhen-chinas-land-starved-tech-hub-making-space-by-moving-massive-landfill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332971\/","title":{"rendered":"Shenzhen, China\u2019s land-starved tech hub, making space by moving massive landfill"},"content":{"rendered":"

The southern Chinese megacity of Shenzhen<\/a>, a symbol of the country\u2019s rapid urbanisation and development, has spent decades transforming urban villages and tenement blocks into dense public housing estates and massive industrial and office parks.Now, in a move that speaks volumes about its scarcity of land<\/a>, the tech hub is relocating an enormous landfill from the city centre, an act that could allow for the development of floor space totalling more than 1 million square metres (10.76 million sq ft) on 30 hectares (74 acres) of newly open land.<\/p>\n

Work is in full swing to move and detoxify more than 2.55 million cubic metres (90.05 million cubic feet) of waste materials buried for decades in a landfill in Shenzhen\u2019s Luohu district, not far from the border with Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

The 2.17 billion yuan (US$307 million) project will free up and transform the land, now occupied by municipal and construction waste, so that it can house artificial intelligence servers, biotech labs and art and design studios for modern manufacturing, according to the city\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

Home to tech giants Tencent, Huawei Technologies, BYD and DJI, Shenzhen\u2019s area of about 2,000 sq km (772 square miles) is less than a third of Shanghai\u2019s and only 12 per cent of Beijing\u2019s.<\/p>\n

But the gross domestic product of the city, which is home to 18 million people, was 3.68 trillion yuan (US$520.6 billion) last year, ranking third among all mainland Chinese cities, and a lack of space is constraining its further development.<\/p>\n

The landfill being vacated was in use between 1983 and 1997, with the site originally chosen because it was on the fringe of what was then a young city. But Shenzhen\u2019s exponential expansion over the decades has far exceeded urban planning boundaries, turning the landfill into an eyesore at the heart of the city and a potential hazard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The southern Chinese megacity of Shenzhen, a symbol of the country\u2019s rapid urbanisation and development, has spent decades…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[186136,64,63,3686,186134,99,46652,10340,7029,95404,186133,55772,16133,4933,13433,46505,186135],"class_list":["post-332971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-artificial-intelligence-servers","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beijing","tag-biotech-labs","tag-business","tag-dji","tag-hong-kong","tag-huawei-technologies","tag-landfill","tag-luohu-district","tag-peking-university","tag-redevelopment","tag-shanghai","tag-shenzhen","tag-tencent","tag-yantian-free-trade-zone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}