Revamped riverside coming soon
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REDEVELOPED riverside areas in downtown Shanghai will open to the public by the end of the year, officials said yesterday.
The public areas along a 10-kilometer stretch, covering more than 700,000 square meters, in Pudong, Yangpu, Xuhui, Hongkou and Huangpu districts will include parks, sports venues, art galleries as well as preserved historic buildings along Huangpu River.
Furthermore by the end of 2017, a total of 45 kilometers of uninterrupted pedestrian paths — half in Puxi and half in Pudong — will run between Yangpu Bridge and Xupu Bridge, said Gu Jinshan, director of Shanghai’s Housing and Urban-Rural Development Administration.
“The city government aims to open the city’s best riverside areas in downtown to its citizens,” Gu said in a conference to local legislators yesterday.
The newly opened riverside areas include three new parks in the Qiantan area in Pudong, a south section of former industrial sites in Yangpu, a new pedestrian bridge in Xuhui, and part of the Shiliupu Dock in Huangpu, Gu added.
A 300-meter-long plank road over the river at the century-old Yangshupu Water Plant which is still operating, will also open to the public for the first time, he said.
The authority would continue to revamp former industrial sites and recover riverside lands from companies as well as demolishing illegal structures along the river, Gu said.
Uninterrupted pedestrian paths are the name of the game.
When the city’s plans come to fruition next year, the city government aims to make Huangpu River one of the world’s top riverside areas — on a par with the Left Bank in Paris and London’s Thames walkways.
The banks of Huangpu River, dubbed the city’s “mother river,” once served as the major shipping and transportation hub for warehouses, wharfs and factories. Now the riverbanks are to become an eco-friendly public space and a landmark for recreation, sightseeing, tourism and historic protection.
Shanghai Party Secretary Han Zheng has said the city should try its hardest to preserve the historic scenery and buildings along the river, even if they are not listed as protected historic buildings.
Some relics have been preserved, such as China’s once largest fishing market, built in 1946 in Yangpu.
Xuhui District plans to turn one of the former Longhua Airport’s two runways into a park featuring cycle lanes and jogging tracks. The Runway Park on Yunjin Road, which runs along the west bank of the Huangpu River — the West Bund — will have trees, flowers and an artificial creek.
Apart from preserving the historic structures, the authority also aims to build a continuous green “slow walk” system along the riverbanks.
This system will include pedestrian and cycle paths, along with bridges and elevated roads over the river to allow people to walk along the riverbanks.
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