Parts of Shanghai’s Lao Cheng, by its Mandarin name — the original port city established in the 1290s — are demolished every passing month, but large swaths of the old neighborhoods remain.

Officials in Guangzhou, China’s third-biggest city, with 127 urban village renovations underway this year, said the average completion time for a project had stretched from 5.5 years to more ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered the oldest city in southern China, that is some 3,000 years old. The settlement is the earliest known civilization in the area that provided the base point for the Ma… ...

The city also has a track record of relocating old buildings. In 2003, the Shanghai Concert Hall, built in 1930, was moved over 66 metes (217 feet) to make way for an elevated highway.

But within China, analysts doubt the small increase in lending rates will slow the incredible building bonanza that is reaching even remote regions, like this one. Kangbashi was projected to have ...

It is by some measures China’s cheapest city at prefecture-level or above. ... He sells perhaps 80 cheap flats a year to outsiders, typically on the upper floors of old buildings without lifts.

The city also has a track record of relocating old buildings. In 2003, the Shanghai Concert Hall, built in 1930, was moved over 66 metes (217 feet) to make way for an elevated highway.