Zhuhai City Park

The city’s Love Promenade, stringing a cluster of urban parks together, is in effect Chinas longest parkland. Low-lying Banzhang Mountain, stretching along the picturesque ide boulevard, is a forest park in its own right and has given birth cycle of urban parks in the core urban area of Xiangzhou Occupying a corner of Banzhang Mountain, Shijingshan Park was established in 1987and has since been serving as a downtown leisure spot. One can either take the cable or walk to the park,s apex to take in the classic skyline and graceful coasts of Xiang Bay. Continue the walk southwards along Jingshan Road, Bailian Road and Jiuzhou Avenue, and you’ ll be bathed in the archaic air of lovely temples and a lily-perfumed pond, legendarily created by resident monks in the Qianlong years of the Qing Dynasty.

Shijingshan Park is bordered on the west by the iconic New Yuanming Palace, the Zhuhai version of the original Summer Palace in Beijing. Nestled in the gorgeous natural setting of this “lake park “is the Zhuhai campus of Jinan University The northern side of Banzhang mountain hosts shixi Park, where a man of letters in the Qing Dynasty was convinced that the scenery was a virtual twin for the landscape around Kuaiji Hill, in the outskirts of present-day shaoxing, which had inspired China’s greatest calligrapher to accomplish his masterpiece on a fine, late spring day in the year 353. The ebullient mood of the Qing literati who were so impressed by the coursing streams, lush woods and peculiar rocks that they couldn t restrain themselves in verse can be savored by people today at various points of interest, accompanied by calligraphic traces of their literary joy A hillside trail leads to Dajingshan, the city’s largest”sports park built around the Dajingshan Reservoir. The 80,000-sq. m grassy sprawl hosts four football fields, five basketball courts, a volleyball court and an indoor playground-all quite ideal forinformal or team sports, with many quiet areas set aside for joggers, cyclists and skateboarders.

The meihua Urban Park, stretching some 200,000sqm, contains a full range of sports facilities, beautifully positioned alongside a large area of banana and papaya woods What was once a vast expanse of desolate wildness has been transformed into an urban garden “with a very natural feel.

Tucked away at the northeastern tip of Banzhang Mountain is Xiangshan Park. You can grab a coffee at the deadzone bookstore near the entrance of the park before the climb into the dense woods, known for its engaging beauty and tranquility. the parks, blending into the southern wing of Banzhang Mountain, constitute another of the city’s”green screens”, woven seamlessly into the daily goings-on of the old -town quarters of Zhuhai. the hilltops of Shihuashan Park, Jiangjunshan Park and PaotaishanPark all serve as natural viewing decks for the fabulous urban contours of Macao just across the shimmering body of waters For a taste of the authentic grass-roots city life of Zhuhai, the Paotaishan Park(literally Cannon Platform Park”) is a fitting place to check out. Surveying the woods, quiet nooks and enclosed playgrounds, burbling with the laughter of frolicking children, you’ll meet people walking backwards, grannies dancing to hot-blooded pop, rosy cheeked tai-chi gurus, and fluffy puppies with fancy clothes.

Outside the Xiangzhou area, the sheer size of the city’s parklands is eye-opening for people from the country’s concrete jungles. Located in Doumen, Jianfengshan Forest Park is the largest of its kind in Guangdong Province. The 171-hectare lot is still expanding.

The city’s rich wetland resources have also blossomed into a cluster of parks that are all paradises for water-loving plants and avian life, with naturallooking lakes and ponds that have been created artificially by damming natural seeps and flows. A world-class wetland landscaping project the seaside Wetland park in hengqin hosts two zones, named Mangzhou (literally Mango Oasis”) and Erjingwan The city’s ambitious “park map”will also see two new significant members joining soon the wetland park set in Jinwan Aviation Town and Hengqin Central Park in Hengqin New Area, both promising to create a grid of expansive, luxuriant greenness for all settlers in the city’s new urban centers and showing the world how an”Adelaide Parklands” can arise on the southern coasts of china Adelaide, the capital city of the state of South australia and widely recognized as one of the world’s most livable cities, is a planned city, designed by the first Surveyor-General of South Australia, Colonel illiam Light.

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