Shenzhen has been boosting efforts to realize the goal of having more than 1,350 parks and more than 4,000 kilometers of walking trails by 2025, according to a news conference Friday.
The goal is part of the city’s urban park construction plan for 2022 to 2024, which was unveiled Dec. 14 last year.
One of the key purposes of the plan is to connect natural resources with the city’s ecological environment.
It is worth noticing that the plan took the public’s suggestions such as pet parks and outdoor camping areas into considerations.
The city’s parks and greenways will also be combined, according to the news conference.
In the near future, Shenzhen will speed up the building of a nearly 200-kilometer-long hiking trail as well as a 140-kilometer coastal bike trail and carry forward the plan that links five parks located in the urban central areas — Lianhua Hill, Bijia Hill, Central, Meilin Mountain and Yinhu Mountain parks, said He Tao, head of the city’s park management center, at Friday’s news conference.
The five urban parks will be linked by repairing ecological breakpoints, improving connections’ existing condition and building slow traffic systems.
According to the plan, by 2035, the number of parks across Shenzhen is expected to exceed 1,500 and the city’s walking trail network will cover more than 5,000 kilometers.
As part of the blueprint outlined in the plan, Shenzhen will build a batch of featured brand parks and quality park communities of international influence by 2035 so that the city will become a real “city in parks,” where natural scenery such as mountains and seas are perfectly integrated with parks and urban facilities.
The plan also includes the building of a 300-kilometer-long leisure walking trail, a nearly 200-kilometer-long coastal bike trail and more than 20 ecological corridors.
Currently, Shenzhen has built 1,260 parks of various sizes and types and 3,119 kilometers of greenways and walking trails. The building of the city’s first mountain-sea corridor which extends from Tanglang Mountain to Shenzhen Bay via the riverbank of Dasha River has been completed.