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The lotus stars in urban green belt
By Jia Lan and Wang Jie |
September 27, 2010, Monday
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THE lotus is an icon of Jiading New City. It can be found in park ponds, rivers and lakes, together with reeds and cattails. In summer, lotus bring flowers and fragrance; in autumn, lotus leaves refresh the scenery.
If you walk along Dongyunjie Street next to the Gongjiabang River, you'll see lotus planted with cattails and reeds in the waterway. Holding the glass railings while you step onto the water platform and wooden plank path, you can get an even closer look at this remarkable exhibition of nature in the middle of a modern industrial city. Yuanxiang Lake, which is now under construction, will become the largest manmade lake planted with lotus in the west of Shanghai. Some say it will rank on par with the famous West Lake in Hangzhou.
What makes Dongyunjie Street prominent is not only its beauty, but also its functional nature. It combines historical culture with modern fashion and urban vigor. The block of Dongyunjie bounded by Baiyin Road to the south, Tianzhu Road to the north, Jingqi Road to the east and Yongsheng Road to the west covers an area of 278,000 square hectares.
In addition to the Gongjiabang River, the 17.23-square-kilometer Jiading New City is also dotted with 18 lakes and a 4-kilometer-long central park. The greenery ratio is more than 40 percent. An ecological landscape built around the concept of one lake within a thousand meters and one woods within a hundred meters will be unveiled soon. At that time, watching Formula One from a boat will become a reality.
If you miss the beautiful scenery of lotus in Jiading New City this summer, please come next year. Every year seems even more spectacular than the one before as Jiading New City turns itself into a scenic mecca.
If you walk along Dongyunjie Street next to the Gongjiabang River, you'll see lotus planted with cattails and reeds in the waterway. Holding the glass railings while you step onto the water platform and wooden plank path, you can get an even closer look at this remarkable exhibition of nature in the middle of a modern industrial city. Yuanxiang Lake, which is now under construction, will become the largest manmade lake planted with lotus in the west of Shanghai. Some say it will rank on par with the famous West Lake in Hangzhou.
What makes Dongyunjie Street prominent is not only its beauty, but also its functional nature. It combines historical culture with modern fashion and urban vigor. The block of Dongyunjie bounded by Baiyin Road to the south, Tianzhu Road to the north, Jingqi Road to the east and Yongsheng Road to the west covers an area of 278,000 square hectares.
In addition to the Gongjiabang River, the 17.23-square-kilometer Jiading New City is also dotted with 18 lakes and a 4-kilometer-long central park. The greenery ratio is more than 40 percent. An ecological landscape built around the concept of one lake within a thousand meters and one woods within a hundred meters will be unveiled soon. At that time, watching Formula One from a boat will become a reality.
If you miss the beautiful scenery of lotus in Jiading New City this summer, please come next year. Every year seems even more spectacular than the one before as Jiading New City turns itself into a scenic mecca.
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