[Photo from visitgz.com]

[Photo from visitgz.com]

Guangzhou Zhujiang Park is located in the east of Zhujiang New Town in Tianhe district, neighboring Machang road in the east, Huacheng avenue in the south, Liede road in the west and Jinsui road in the north. The park is a municipal park integrating the functions of sightseeing, recreation, popular science education and leisure. It is one of the outcomes of “medium change in three years” policy of Guangzhou and was officially open to the public on September 28, 2000.

Covering an area of 28 hectares, the park is an ecological park featuring plant landscaping with over 800 species of plants and a greenery coverage rate of over 91 percent. With beautiful natural ecological environment and elegant style, the park boasts strong characteristics of Lingnan gardens. According to the ecological characteristics and morphology of the plants, the park is divided into eight main scenic zones, i.e., ornamental forest zone, shade plant zone, "Kuailv Lake" zone, sweet osmanthus garden, magnolia garden, palm garden and hundred flower garden. The planting of each scenic zone adopts the assortment by family, genus and community, and is ingeniously combined with the massif, streams, waterfalls, lakes and architectures in picturesque disorder and well-arranged structure, making the park a carpet of green grasses and flourishing flowers.

There stands seven martyrs' memorial architectures in the park, including an arch of triumph, a martyrs' monument, a tablet inscribed with the names of martyrs, an anti-Japanese pavilion, a generals' tomb, a soldiers' tomb and a martyrs' memorial hall. The whole cemetery area features the architectural style of the ancient Rome, with a large size, orderly layout and solemn design. The main architecture of the cemetery is a semicircle portico with Baroco style, with a 20-meter-high granite merit memorial tablet standing in front of the portico in the center. On the merit memorial tablet stands a bronze statue of a mighty soldier with a rifle on his shoulder and a broad-rimmed hat made of bamboo splits on his back. There are two pairs of bronze lions sitting on the steps in front of the statue and eight bronze tripods arranged on the stone base of the merit memorial tablet. The bronze statue, lions and tripods together stand for "1928", the year the anti-Japanese battle in Songhu took place.

Address: 900 Jinsui road, Zhujiang New Town, Guangzhou

Open hours: 7:30 – 21:00

Admission: free (only for reference)

Tel.: +86 (20)87058231 or 87059013