Ailian Lake Park

Early of summer, Chenzhou city is with a beautiful image of its mountains, waters and greening views.

Parks and gardens everywhere are help to change Chenzhou people’s daily life

Aunts who used to play cards became the active dancing spirits in squares.

The youth became the funs of cycling instead of games funds.

People enjoyed walking in parks with their beloved rather than KTV and other entertainments.

Hundreds of parks and gardens full of Chenzhou city which grant it with a new green image instead of the concrete buildings.

Chenzhou city was suffered from a sever ice disarster in 2008 that many forests were badly destroyed then. As predicted by some experts, it would take 30-50 years for Chenzhou city to recover from that damage. But actually, Chenzhou people just used 5 years to recover the greening image of their city.

Till the end of 2013, over 104 parks and gardens, 3097hectaors of greening areas, 2936hectaors of greening lands, and 663hectaors of parks’ greening lands were available in Chenzhou city with the greening coverage rate, greening land rate and urban residents per capita park greening land of 42.40%, 40.20% and 11.06 square meters respectively. All those achievements were far ahead of other similar level cities of China.

In 2013, Chenzhou city was successfully qualified as “national garden city”. In the end of this June, the final approval for establishment of national forest city would be carried out in Chenzhou city.

Leaders from Kunming city of Yunnan province where is famous as “city of spring, city of flower”could not help expressing their praise for Chenzhou city’s achievements on the promotion of greening projects, and said: “Chenzhou city was really a city in the garden and garden in the city.”

Concept- blue sky, clear water, green tree and red flower

Chenzhou was used to be called “Linyi” which mean “city in the forest”and was covered with greening view.

2008 severe ice disaster badly destroyed the forests of Chenzhou city that over 80% of the trees in Chenzhou urban area were damaged by this disaster.

But Chenzhou people were never beaten by this disaster.

All Chenzhou people were aware of the idea that “characteristic is the life of a city”. For Chenzhou city, the featured city greening view was its key characteristic.

2009 was a break year for Chenzhou city’s construction of parks and gardens that a “greening project” was launched by Chenzhou Municipal Party Committee and Chenzhou Government.

Besides for the consideration of heritage of green spirit culture of Chenzhou city, more concern on the high-level, new and long-term development of Chenzhou city was involved in this decision.

As introduced by Chenzhou city’s decision-makers that it was inevitable choice for upgrading of city level, improvement of competitiveness and sustainable development to promote the ecological brands construction and greening development of Chenzhou city.

Chenzhou people’s mode of thinking were transformed with the expansion of vision and endogenous power of development.

“Mountain in the city, city in the garden, people in the greening area” became the key requirement of Chenzhou city’s park and greening culture development. At the meanwhile, a new journey for Chenzhou city’improvement of parks construction was started in Chenzhou city.

Driving by the high-level target, some special greening plans concerned for the landscape ecosphere of “one ecosphere, two circles, blue artery and greening net, ten mountains and ten lakes” were figured out by Chenzhou city.

“One ecosphere” refers to the periphery ecosphere which supports the urban area’s ecology with natural landscape, including farmlands, hills, and etc. All the periphery ecological elements were covered into the complex ecological system of urban city to lay the greening substance of the city.

“Two circles” refer to trans forest protection zone circle and trans suburban parks circle. 100 meter wide forest protection zones were figured out along the sides of roads around the city, in which no types of development construction was available. Some scenic landscapes of city outskirts would be used with the form of suburban park in the long-term plan.

“Blue artery and greening net” refers to the greening net urban afforestation plan in the central urban area of Chenzhou city. By fully playing the roles of Chenjiang river, Yanquan river, Tongxin river and some other main rivers of Chenzhou city, it planned to form a dynamic blue artery of water net. At the meantime, by fully playing the roles of Chenzhou city’s ecological resources and combining the city’s key greening areas and points, it planned to greening net along the rivers and key urban roads.

“Ten mountains” refers to the “green lung” of Chenzhou city formed by the natural exit mountains and mountain systems there, including Suxianling, Guimenling mountain system, Lishushan mountain system, Fengxingshan mountain system, Wangxianling, Houyingshan, Beimianshan mountain system, Wangjialing mountain system, and etc.

“Ten lakes”refers to the urban city water network formed by fully using the water resources of Chenzhou city’s key rivers. It planned to forge ten famous lakes as Jintian lake, Baishui lake, Liulian lake, Yuanquan lake, Wangxian lake, Suxian lake, Tongkeng lake, Luoxian lake, Ailian lake and Beihu lake.

Chenzhou city’s greening project improvement were upgraded rapidly by facilitating with such green blueprint.

In order to change the closed greening mode and upgrade city’s greening visual image, Chenzhou city carried out series upgrading greening projects along the arterial and sub-arterial roads, some illegal and temporary buildings, and roofs, windows, balconies and bridges.

Furthermore, walls and fences of some factories and units were demolished to handle afforestation work and over 4000meters long walls and 200,000 square meters houses were removed to build some small parks and gardens.

Some 2-floor buildings in Yanquan walking street were removed to build the 2747.14-square-meter big Yanquan small park. Over 8000 square meters stores and building around Chenzhou Hotel were demolished to build the 3200-square-meter big Chenzhou Hotel small park.

Series greening projects enabled Chenzhou city to meet the national standard that can find gardens in radium of 500meters. A public greening land system with series gardens and parks was facilitated to the citizens.

Chenzhou people never stopped their ways to optimize the greening condition of the city.

Chenzhou city launched the activity to establish national forest city in 2012, which mobilized all Chenzhou people to join in the afforestation work everywhere.

Now, Chenzhou becomes a real “city in the forest”with the greening views.