Shanghai to stretch greenways by 200km every year till 2025
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SHANGHAI plans to double its length of greenways by the end of 2025, Shanghai’s greenery authorities said yesterday.
The target is 200 kilometers of new greenways every year, according to the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau.
Greenways in the city, now totaling 1,093 kilometers, are paths for leisure and exercise among trees, flowers, water and other natural resources. They include paths in gardens and forests, as well as along rivers and roads.
Shanghai began drafting its greenway blueprint in 2015.
The variety of plant species add a splash of color to the city’s landscape and brightens people’s lives. The cherry blossom greenway on Guijiang Road in Xuhui District, plum flower greenway on Laohumin Road and near Xinzhuang overpass in Minhang District, and the Chinese rose flower wall greenway along Pengyuepu, a tributary of the Huangpu River, are some of the city’s most representative greenways.
The Huangpu River greenway, known as the “No. 1 municipal greenway,” stretching 8.3 kilometers through Huangpu District with tracks for walking, jogging and cycling, has become a popular getaway for residents and tourists.
Greenways at residential communities also present enchanting spring flower and autumn blossom landscapes.
The Puxi section greenway of Outer Ring Road and the downtown part of Suzhou Creek greenway will be completed by the end of this year, the bureau said.
The Huangpu District section of the Suzhou Creek greenway stretches over 1,200 meters. The colorful landscape near the Waibaidu Bridge attracts photographers and visitors, exercising or simply immersing themselves in a little oasis of urban tranquility.
The greenway’s bricks are decorated with colorful glass and the mosaic style in an old-fashioned Shanghai flavor.
“Because the greenway sits along the Suzhou Creek and Huangpu River, its design inspiration is drawn from water,” said Zhu Xiaojun, director of the planning and construction department of the Huangpu District Greenery Management Station.
“The creek and the river carried important shipping transportation function in the past, thus the greenway’s design embodies these features,” he said. “The path is shaped like a wave and the benches are in the shape of oars.”
A variety of flower varieties including hydrangeas, Chinese wisteria, irises, and cherry blossom bloom along the greenway, and spruce up the area in purple, white, blue, yellow and pink.
The Suzhou Creek and Huangpu River greenways are connected by a garden featuring maple trees. Poems in English by celebrated Chinese author Eileen Chang (1920-1995) are lined along the route.
“The designer, a senior Shanghainese, drew inspiration from the ‘lover’s wall’ on the Bund,” said Zhu.
Li Weixing, a retiree living near the greenway, said he liked taking a stroll there. “In good weather, there is mild breeze and twittering birds and the greenway offers a rare oasis in the city’s concrete jungle,” he said.
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