Guangdong running out of land, expert says

SHENZHEN: Just 6 percent of Guangdong Province's urban land reserves remain undeveloped, which is insufficient to sustain healthy and consistent economic growth, a city planner has warned.

A recent survey by the Guangdong Urban & Rural Planning and Design Institute showed that 94 percent of the land available for urban construction in the province has already been developed, Wen Chunyang, the institute's vice-president, said.

The remaining reserves amount only to an area about the size of Guangzhou, the provincial capital, he said.