Shenzhen will build Litou Mountain Sports Park in Dalang Subdistrict, Longhua District, into the city’s first carbon-free park.
A consultation event was recently held to offer a platform for government departments, experts, company representatives and citizens to expand the public participation in the construction design of the park, Chinese media reported.
About 90.42% of the park’s total area that covers some 2.34 million square meters, or 328 standard soccer fields, will be green land.
It is designed to be a carbon-free park located in a forest-like environment. It includes a five-kilometer sports trail with fitness service stations every 400 meters. There will also be an outdoor sports area located in a valley of the mountain. The designers set up a variety of natural sports venues covering climbing, ropes, slides and other projects based on different characteristics of steep slopes, gentle slopes and ridges.
The construction will adopt the minimal environmental intervention philosophy and preserve the area’s existing forests to the greatest extent possible.
This is the latest effort for the city to be a demonstration area of low carbon or near-zero emissions in the country.
At the end of last year, Shenzhen unveiled a plan to pilot the construction of near-zero emission zones in a bid to promote the city’s green and low-carbon development and contribute to the country’s carbon peaking and neutrality goals.
The plan aims to build pilot projects of different types into leading near-zero emission demonstration projects in the country by applying advanced carbon reduction technologies in fields including energy, construction and transport.
The first batch of 28 near-zero emission pilot projects include four industrial parks, three residential communities, seven schools, eight buildings and six companies. The selected near-zero emission pilot projects have effectively promoted the application of low-carbon, zero-carbon and carbon-negative technologies. The completion of Shenzhen’s first batch of 28 near-zero emission pilot projects is expected to reduce carbon emissions by about 45% and carbon dioxide emissions by nearly 123,000 tons a year, according to the Municipal Ecology Environment Bureau.