Shanghai: Welcome to Urban Parks

Speaking of Shanghai, the first thing that pops into your mind may be its towering skyscrapers, rather than green fields with birds singing and flowers blooming. In fact, there are many picturesque parks in Shanghai for citizens and tourists to go for a walk after study or work, to exercise and get close to nature, let's take a look together.

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East Sheshan Garden in Sheshan National Forest Park is rich in botanical resources, where visitors can see more than a hundred species of wild spotted deer, pangolin and various birds, in addition to more than 2,000 species of plants such as balsam fir and moso bamboo. The Jiabei Country Park, based on agricultural ecology, is like a water town in Jiangnan, with a number of functional areas to meet the leisure needs of people of all ages.

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Shanghai Gongqing Forest Park, located in Yangpu District is the only AAAA national forest park featuring forest landscape in Shanghai, which has always been considered a natural oxygen bar. The lush green Gongqing Forest Park is not only an oasis in Shanghai, but also a paradise for entertainment. Gongqing Forest Park makes full use of the park's beautiful landscape and rich forest resources, combining the changing seasons, traditional festivals, national holidays, winter and summer vacations, and responding to the material and cultural needs of citizens and visitors, and regularly launches thematic cultural activities every year, including the Four Seasons Flower Show, the Urban Forest Carnival during the National Holiday, the Beer Festival, Forest Music Festival in late October, etc.

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Gongqing Forest Park also provides recreation programs suitable for the public, such as whitewater rafting, pirate ship, bumper cars, etc.. Various water activities are also relatively good choices for visitors to have fun in the green spaces. Young sports lovers, can also have a wonderful time here climbing rocks, playing soccer, or riding tandem bicycle.