Discovering Changchun’s 10 vivifying cultural parks in spring (1)

Changchun Nanhu Park （长春市南湖公园）

Flowers in bloom at Changchun Nanhu Park [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Founded in 1935, Changchun Nanhu Park covers a total area of 238.6 hectares, with 92 and 134.6 hectares of lake and green lands. After decades of construction, it has become a leading natural ecological park in Northeast China, mainly focusing on plant landscape.

There are 21 varieties of flowers blooming at the park in spring, including azalea, forsythia, flowering plum, spiraea thunbergii, syringa reticulata, bird cherry, lonicera korolkowii, as well as yellow rose.

Beautiful flowers in springtime [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The park has more than 700 apricot trees, and since 2014, it has been carrying out various apricot blossom sightseeing activities centering on hiking, environmental protection and photography.

As the "lung lobe" and the forest oxygen-bar of Changchun, the park has made important contribution to the adjustment of urban ecological environment. Among them, the birch forest, red leaf forest and lotus pond are the most characteristic plant landscapes in the city. 

In fact, Changchun Nanhu Park has long been renowned for its "lotus pond", which covers an area of about four hectares and is the largest lotus viewing place in Changchun city, with planting more than 100,000 "ancient lotus" plants and 1,300 water lilies.

Add: 2715 Gongnong Rd, Chaoyang district, Changchun, Jilin province