Editing Shenyang (section)

=== 21st century ===
Directed by state efforts to reduce [[Pollution in China|pollution]] and close unprofitable industry, the city has undergone [[deindustrialization]], with the shutdown of large plants.<ref>{{Cite thesis |title=Emerging Identity: Envisioning Eco-cultural Infrastructure in Post Industrial Shenyang, China |url=https://digital.lib.washington.edu:443/researchworks/handle/1773/40213 |date=2017 |degree=MLA |language=en-US |first=Shuyi |last=Gao |publisher=University of Washington}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shin |first=Sangbum |date=2004 |title=Economic Globalization and the Environment in China: A Comparative Case Study of Shenyang and Dalian |journal=The Journal of Environment & Development |volume=13 |issue=3 |pages=263–294 |doi=10.1177/1070496504268352 |jstor=44319696 |s2cid=154554360 |issn=1070-4965}}</ref> Most notably, a large 1930s [[Smelting|smelter]] in the central city was closed in 2000.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Byrd |first=William |title=The Shenyang smelter: a case study of problems and reforms in China's nonferrous metals industry |url=http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/1985/12/01/000009265_3980901130825/Rendered/PDF/multi_page.pdf |journal=World Bank Staff Working Papers |series=766 |language=English |publisher=World Bank}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Shenyang Shuts Down Polluting Smelter |url=http://en.people.cn/english/200007/03/eng20000703_44500.html |access-date=2022-07-26 |website=[[People's Daily]]}}</ref> The redevelopment of former polluted industrial land has resulted in [[gentrification]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Tomba |first=Luigi |date=2017-08-21 |title=Gentrifying China's Urbanization? Why Culture and Capital Aren't Enough: Interventions |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2427.12494 |journal=International Journal of Urban and Regional Research |language=en |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=508–517 |doi=10.1111/1468-2427.12494}}</ref>