The Environmental Theme Park of Suzhou River Mengqing Garden, referred to as "Mengqing Garden" (梦清园), is located on the south bank of Suzhou Creek, surrounded by water on three sides, and covers an area of 8.6 hectares. It was completed and opened in July 2004. It is a large-scale comprehensive construction project to improve the Suzhou Creek environment, integrating garden greening, science education venues, water environment management engineering measures, etc.
For example, the rainwater storage tank built under the Mengqing Garden has a total volume of 30,000 cubic meters and can serve 7.2 square kilometers. It is one of the four storage tanks built along the Suzhou Creek. After it is put into use, it greatly improves the transportation capacity of the sewage system, reduces the river discharge amount from the pump stations on rainy days, and hence stabilizes the Suzhou Creek's water quality to constantly meet the quality standards.
The Mengqing Garden embodies Shanghai's target to build a people-oriented ecological city, and expresses the strong desire of Shanghai people to make Suzhou Creek clean as soon as possible. This tour will guide you past a few scenic sites in the park.
Stage 1: Qingyi Lake
The lake is made up of southern landscape elements such as clean water, white sand, palms, pebbles and fishes. Several large palms (i.e. Washingtonia filifera) are planted here. The palm trunks are wrapped in thermal layers in winter. The number of wrapped palms is A.
Stage 2: Fishes
This is an art apparatus decorated with fish sculptures. The total number of small fish is B.
Stage 3: A Torch
There is a torch sculpture in the centre of the square. It is the First Prize of Global Energy Award that the Mengqing Garden won in Austria. The year on the torch is C.
Stage 4: Sky Canal
The purified water from Suzhou Creek is lifted by pumps to form the Sky Canal with a waterfall-like torrent, and finally flows into the Butterfly Spring in the park centre. The Chinese name of the garden (梦清园) and numbers are inscribed on the ground tiles under the Sky Canal. The number on the left is D; the number on the right is E.
Stage 5: Cranes
This is the water platform between the Middle Lake and the Lower Lake in the park. Look around. The total number of crane sculptures in the water is F.
Final: N31°B.A(C-2000) E121°26.(D*E-F)
The final is a land surrounded by bamboos. The cache (a 5cm tube in the plastic bag) is placed under a flat stone in the bamboos. The stone is a triangle with a side length of 30cm.
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GCB1ARE: A Tour of Mengqing Garden (wjx.top)
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