Pujiang Country Park is located on Puxing Highway (north side of Dazhi River), Minhang District, Shanghai. It is a ‘suburban urban forest-type country park with forest recreation and waterfront leisure as its main functions’. In terms of its characteristic positioning, this is an autumn-view park in the suburbs with an artistic theme. Countryside, city, art, and autumn scenery are its keywords. This place is originally full of original ecological wildness and also has rich cultural and artistic resources.
There is the Shanghai Theatre Academy on the north side. To the east, China Film World (tentative name) will be introduced. There is the Changshou Zen Temple on the west side. During the construction process, these cultural resources will be fully utilized to provide citizens with artistic leisure spaces such as forest performing arts, Zen quiet gardens, art workshops, and horticultural islands. The country park will try to maintain the current vegetation to ensure its wildness. The first-phase start-up area has rich vegetation. According to the requirements of ecological, species and landscape diversity, the keynote tree species are evergreen camphor trees, deciduous ginkgo and tallow trees, as well as magnolia grandiflora, cedar, osmanthus, Koelreuteria bipinnata var. integrifoliola, firs, albizia julibrissin, etc. There are nearly a dozen characteristic tree species. The soapberry for leaf viewing, the persimmon tree, jujube tree, and loquat for fruit viewing, cherry blossoms, azaleas, and begonias in spring, wisteria, canna, and wild roses in summer. Of course, the autumn tree species such as hibiscus mutabilis and hibiscus syriacus are definitely indispensable. There are also bird-loving tree species such as holly, pyracantha, and idesia polycarpa. Presumably, it is to attract birds to settle down. In addition, there are aquatic plants, vines, and bamboo plants. With so many plants, walking into the park is equivalent to walking into a natural oxygen bar.The four highlights of the park:
Horticultural Cultivation Island: Create highly ornamental horticultural landscapes and form a characteristic horticultural island located in the forest. There are a proper amount of buildings on the island where customers can participate in horticultural production and exhibitions.
Egret and Willow Bank: Retain the existing willows and water systems, introduce animals such as egrets, and create an atmosphere full of wild naturalness. It is also an important ecological protection area and animal habitat in the park.
Fruit Orchard Picking: Convert the current sapling forest into a picking forest to provide urbanites with a place to experience picking and farming.
