Source: Hebei News Network
Qinhuangdao Forest Sports Park, with its good ecological environment, beautiful garden landscape and perfect sports service functions, provides visitors with a good place to exercise, and enjoy the beauty of nature and arts.
Forest Sports Park.
A road extending from north to south is dotted with squares shaped in semicircular, circular and spiral, with lawns and flowers on both sides. The road and small squares are paved with stone slabs, forming fish patterns on the round square which is encircled by an 80-centimeter-wide trail paved with stones. Olympic-themed reliefs along the road embody the development of the Olympic Games, highlighting the Olympic culture. The flowers in the flowerbeds of the round square are blooming magnificently.
Forest Sports Park.
The fitness zone is the most lively place in the park where citizens work out and enjoy themselves. An Guang, who lived nearby, is fond of this place and published a poem “Langtaosha·Qinhuangdao Forest Sports Park” in Qinhuangdao Daily, depicting the integration of the park’s ecological environment and sports culture. “It is beautiful, with many sports facilities. I come here to exercise almost every day. We have established a WeChat group for playing basketball in the Forest Sports Park. Now we have more than 150 members.” An Guang said.
The park was built in early 2002 and completed in 2006, covering an area of about 460 mu, and 214,000 square meters of green land. There are 9,353 rare trees including spruce, ginkgo, saponin, and cedar, etc., shrub shape of 6,639 square meters, and lawn area of more than 150,000 square meters. There are ten functional areas in the park such as areas of entertainment, fitness, leisure, camping, memorial forest, transitional space, lake and water, and nursery garden. There are 1 standard football court, 1 shooting range, 6 tennis courts, 2 basketball courts, 2 badminton courts, and 3 children’s playgrounds. The shooting range is equipped with 4 shooting halls with 50-meter, 25-meter, 10-meter targets and 10-meter moving targets, and an open-air flying saucer platform. The shooting range covers an area of more than 18,000 square meters, hosted the 11th Hebei National Games finals and the Hebei Province Shooting Championship. There is an artificial lake covering an area of 28,000 square meters in the park, with a group of large musical fountains in the center.
Forest Sports Park.
On occasion of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the Olympic-themed sculpture groups were built in the park, including Olympic-themed sculptures, Olympic memories, and Olympic China, consisting of 1 main sculpture, 30 groups of ground sculptures and 21 groups of statues. During the Olympic Games, Forest Sports Park hosted 21 training missions for 10 national football teams from the United States, Italy, Brazil, and Japan, and received more than 720 athletes, officials and media from various countries, assuring the Olympic training mission. In 2008, the Forest Sports Park was selected as a candidate park for the “Top Ten Famous Sports Parks” in China. The daily passenger flow during the peak period reached nearly 10,000.
At present, the Forest Sports Park has become an ideal place for citizens and tourists to exercise, relax, enjoy sports, and take pictures, and a special attraction for sightseeing and festival celebrations. ‘In the next step, we will continue to improve the management system of park sanitation, greening, facilities and equipment, and gradually update the old facilities, so that citizens and tourists can truly appreciate the beauty of nature and the fun of sports here.” said Li Tianjie, manager of the park.
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