Now Shenzhen | August 21, 2023
Editor’s note
This is the last of a series of in-depth stories dedicated to the fourth anniversary of Shenzhen being tasked with building a pilot demonstration area of socialism with Chinese characteristics. This series aims to showcase some of the impressive strides Shenzhen has made within a short span of four years.
Wang Jingli
THE southern part of Bijia Hill Sports Park in Futian District officially opened recently, marking a new progress of the city’s plan to link five major downtown parks for ecological enhancement.
The city’s urban management department announced earlier in 2023 that Lianhua Hill Park, Bijia Hill Park, Central Park, Meilin Mountain Park and Yinhu Mountain Park will be linked together by repairing ecological breakpoints, improving connectivity and building slow traffic systems.
The city has proposed the planning and construction of park clusters. The project, which has been listed in this year’s top 10 tasks of the city’s urban management department, aims to link the parks and nearby green spaces and build park clusters that are easily accessible to one another through slow traffic.
Smart outdoor gym
The southern part of Bijia Hill Sports Park covers an area of roughly 65,000 square meters, with a free smart outdoor gym as one of its highlights.
The sports facilities, with the help of cloud computing, 5G, Internet of Things and other technologies, can be set up with different exercise models targeting different body parts to meet the fitness needs of different groups of people.
Citizens can also scan an on-site QR code to get personalized exercise methods.
The northern part of Bijia Hill Sports Park will include 19 sets of fitness facilities covering over 540 square meters. The construction will be completed at the end of this month, according to Li Feng, director of the infrastructure department of Bijia Hill Sports Park.
A citizen surnamed Gao said that sports facilities diversify the park visiting experience. “Doing sports at a park with a beautiful environment and fresh air is really enjoyable,” said Gao.
In fact, outdoor smart gyms like this have been set up at all the five major parks, which have attracted over 380,000 citizens and been used 3.24 million times, according to a recent SZTV news report.
Smart running
tracks
Tanglang Mountain Country Park in Nanshan District put a smart running track into use this May.
Equipped with various advanced features, the smart running track boasts self-service race bib issuance cabinets, storage lockers, prize lockers and a 65-inch (165-centimeter) large-screen data terminal.
The whole track has three points with machines installed for users to record their running results through the WeChat miniprogram “慧云智跑” (Hiyou Sport).
Additionally, Lianhua Hill Park in Futian District officially opened its 5G jogging track this summer. The jogging track is 900 meters long, surrounding Yangri Lake (漾日湖) at the east of the park (close to the Guan Shanyue Art Museum).
The jogging track integrates big data, cloud computing, 5G and artificial intelligence.
While building the jogging track, the park added 81 short lawn lamps, which give out softer light, and three drinking water machines.
More parks
on the way
Shenzhen has been boosting efforts to connect its natural resources and ecological environment, as well as realizing the goal of having over 1,350 parks and more than 4,000 kilometers of walking trails by 2025.
So far, Shenzhen has built 1,260 parks of various sizes and types and 3,119 kilometers of greenways and walking trails, He Tao, head of the city’s park management center, said at a news conference in April.
Shenzhen also unveiled an urban park construction plan for 2022 to 2024 on Dec. 14 last year.
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.
ARTICLE FROM: Shenzhen Daily