There is a gigantic park in Qinhuangdao City, full of beauty of technology and nature, every theme exhibition park features distinctive scenery, attracting a large number of tourists. It is the Garden Expo, the biggest park in Qinhuangdao.
Panorama of the Qinhuangdao Garden Expo.
The Garden Expo is located at the eastern foot of Qiyun hill in Qinhuangdao Development Zone, with a total area of 2,000 mu and investment of 1.8 billion yuan. The park is planned and designed by Beijing Forestry University based on the original natural mountain topography of “being surrounded by three cities, and overlooking six regions”, with a spatial structure of “three valleys highlighting the features, one water running through the north and the south, and three cores (the main venue, the green venue and the iconic building on the top of Qiyun hill) complementary with each other”. Forty theme gardens and specialized gardens representing different cities in Hebei province spread in the south and the north exhibition areas, with distinctive characteristics.
Two mascots, Mingming and Xiuxiu, stand at the north gate of the park, representing the clear water and green mountain of Qinhuangdao. Each city in Hebei Province designed its exhibition park, highlighting their regional cultures and characteristics.
The north exhibition area of the Garden Expo.
Representative regional landscapes of Hebei Province spread out in the north exhibition area. The Tangshan Garden, the cradle of modern industry, features regional Tangshan cultural heritage and Nanhu culture, which fully reflects Tangshan’s overall transformation. The Chengde Garden, with the theme of the humanity of the Autumn Hunting Ceremony, is characterized by the palace culture and fully demonstrates the unique natural scenery of the Mulan Paddock. Based on the long-standing harbor culture, the culture of great people and the beautiful natural seaside scenery, the Qinhuangdao Garden consists of areas of the Pearl of the Port City, the Qinhuang Mountains and Sea, and the Panoramic Coast. The entire northern exhibition areas include mountain plateau, forest and grassland, and river, lake and wetland. The Chengde Garden, the Zhangjiakou Garden, and the Tangshan Garden are designed in the mountain plateau area; the Shijiazhuang Garden, the Xingtai Garden, the Handan Garden and the Dingzhou Garden in the forest and grassland area; the Langfang Garden, the Baoding Garden, the Hengshui Garden, the Cangzhou Garden, and the Xinji Garden in the river, lake and wetland area; the Qinhuangdao Garden, the exhibition gardens of various counties, children’s garden, and golden leaf garden are distributed among them.
You can enjoy different scenery across Hebei Province in the Garden Expo within one day. A corner or a low slope here could be beautiful landscape. You can always find your favorite in different places. Song Peng, a Qinhuangdao native, said, “The air in the Garden Expo Park is very fresh. There are flowers, mountains, waters, parks, and many small animals. From time to time, you will see some squirrels. I love this place. It is good for us to relax and entertain.”
The creative theme exhibition garden of the Garden Expo
In addition to the exhibition areas of each city, there are creative theme exhibition garden, regional style exhibition garden, specialized garden, and characteristic botanical garden of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Regions in the southern part of Garden Expo. The creative theme exhibition garden consists of the Sponge City Exhibition Garden, the Health Care Exhibition Garden, the Courtyard Landscape Exhibition Garden and the Children Creative Exhibition Garden; the regional style exhibition garden consists of the European Garden, the Fujian-Taiwan Garden, the Southeast Asia Garden and the Jiangnan Garden; the specialized garden consists of the rose garden, the autumn chrysanthemum garden, the crape myrtle garden, the shade-tolerance botanical garden and the herb garden. The green area in the park amounts to 1032 mu, covering more than 60,000 trees and 636 kinds of plant varieties. Xie Xinyu, a staff member of Taisheng Environment Co., Ltd., said that there are 700,000 square meters of green area in the Garden Expo, which needs good care. More than 100 professionals work hard to prune, water and fertilize the plants in the park every day, providing citizens with a good environment.
The second Garden Expo of Hebei Province was held in the Garden Expo in July 2018, which proves to be a great success. The biggest park in Qinhuangdao, with the theme of “the port city of mountains and sea • green dream”, adhering to the principles of ecological environmental protection, cultural heritage, innovation leadership, and sustainable development, and integrating the beauty of ecology, habitant, and industry based on the historical and cultural accumulation of Qinhuangdao and the beautiful natural environmental resources of Qiyun hill, is also a boutique garden expo that concentrates the essence of foreign garden art and the regional characteristics of Hebei Province.
Currently, the remaining 5000 mu of Qiyun hill is also undergoing ecological restoration, which will presents the most beautiful ecological and cultural landscape in Qinhuangdao together with the Garden Expo based on the unique patterns and landscape resources.
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