China's Central Park | Alex In The City Ep.17 | Chongqing

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Chongqing- Alex In The City "China's Central Park " Episode 17
I share my experience taking to the streets of Chongqing with my E-bike.

Chongqing Central Park covers an area of 1.53 square kilometers. Construction started in June 2011 and opened in January 2013. The project has an investment of 4.6 billion yuan. It is the fourth city center in the world after New York Central Park, London Hyde Park and Shanghai Pudong Century Park. The park is also the largest open urban central park in western China.

Chongqing Central Park is located between Jiangbei International Airport and Yuelai Convention and Exhibition Center. It is roughly a long strip from north to south, with a length of 2,400 meters from north to south and a width of 770 meters from east to west. The length of a circle is 6 kilometers. Private cars are not allowed into the park, and 2,800 underground parking spaces have been built in the east, west and south directions of the park.

In the park, there is ①a 600-meter-long Festival Avenue, ②a 300-acre Sunshine Lawn, ③a beautiful Mirror Lake, and ④a fountain array covering an area of ​​20,000 square meters.

①Festival Avenue is an avenue on the central axis of the Central Park, 20 meters wide and 600 meters long, on both sides of Festival Avenue, there are Camellia Garden, Cherry Blossom Garden, Osmanthus Garden, Begonia Garden, etc., plus ginkgo biloba and camphor, formed a beautiful botanical garden. The central square is a large 30-hectare square at the highest point of the park and can accommodate 100,000 people.

②There are nearly 300 acres of Sunshine Lawn, where you can fly kites and bask in the sun.

③Mirror Lake can row a boat and watch the night view.

④The fountain zone is divided into three areas, namely the fountain viewing area, the fountain interactive area, and the water curtain movie area. In summer you can walk through the fountain and it is open at 7:30 pm on weekends and public holidays.

Around the park, the infrustructures are Chongqing No. 8 Middle School and Yubei Hospital. Rail Transit Line 10 passes through the underground of the park.

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