Shanghai Expo Culture Park garden to open
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A CLASSICAL Chinese garden has gradually taken shape on the Huangpu River waterfront in the Pudong New Area.
Shanghai Garden, a highlight of the Shanghai Expo Culture Park, covers 50,000 square meters, nearly 2.5 times bigger than the iconic Yuyuan Garden, one of the most well-known Chinese gardens in Shanghai, on the other side of the Huangpu River. It creates a natural echo beside the river.
Winding corridors and overhanging eaves, pavilions and pagodas, stand on rockeries, along gurgling streams or within a thicket of trees, interspersed with a variety of blossoms such as rhododendrons, magnolias and lotus. Black swans on ponds and birds flying over trees inject some vitality to the tranquil garden.
The garden will receive visitors when the north section of the Shanghai Expo Culture Park opens at the end of this month — no date has been decided yet.
The 2-square-kilometer park, in the heart of Pudong’s waterfront, is located northwest to the Huangpu, east to Lupu Bridge and Changqing Road N., south to Tongyao Road and Longbin Road.
It is designed to become an ecological natural forest park incorporating new cultural landmarks and comparable to Central Park in New York and Hyde Park in London. Also, it will become the largest riverside green area in downtown Shanghai once completed.
Construction began in September 2017, and it is set to cost seven years to finish all work. To meet people’s demands, authorities have decided to open the park’s north section, nearly half of the park’s size, to the public first.
Besides Shanghai Garden, the section also features World Expo Garden.
A 1,000-meter-long Sakura Ring Road, planted with cherry trees, will connect the former World Expo pavilions of Italy, France, Russia and Luxembourg, as well as nine themed Europe-style flowerbeds in a bid to echo the four pavilions and preserve the 2010 Expo legacy.
The section also includes the 400-meter-long Temporal Signet Avenue that sheds light on the history of the site — from iron works to Expo site to riverside park, and a 160,000-square-meter forest.
Notably, pets are welcome. A 10,000-square-meter dog playground has been built on the Houtan riverside area. Supporting facilities such as canine toilets have been installed.
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