Change of Gardens

From deserted grass lands on both riversides to today’s 18-kilometer-long riverside greenbelt
The motherly river of Yiwu is decorated with two 18.8-kilometer-long greenbelts on both riversides, which are formed by green lawn, lush trees, blooming flowers perched with joyfully singing birds and colorful butterfly, vivid sculptures and nicely shaped small hills which are silhouetted in the clean river water. This is a beautiful painting depicting southern Chinese hills and waters.

Riverside Greenbelts

Riverside Greenbelts started to be constructed in April, 1996, which were planed to be composed of fifteen parks. So far the total investment has surpassed 400 million yuan. A series of projects have been completed, along with the south and north banks of Yiwu River. They are Riverside Green Land, Yinhua Garden and Palm Tree Island and Fangcao Grass Land, Ji-water Spring Dawn, Wuyue Osmanthus Garden, Xiangxue Spring-heralding Garden, Yin’an Warm-grass Garden, Diaoyuji Park, Jiangbin Theme Park, Sports and Tourism Resting Garden, Commercial Culture garden, Birds and Flowers World and Yiwu Paradise.

Collection of Riverside Greenbelt Parks

Commercial Culture Park---it is located on the north bank of Yiwu River and between Dongjiang Bridge and Huangyuan Bridge. This is a tourist resting park, integrating people’s enjoyment of leisure, recreation, and health-keeping exercises. With Yiwu River being the theme of the design for the entire park, the park is designed by adopting the modern, concise and forthright horticulture designing tactics, which has greatly increased the parks’ vividness and diversity by building a square, using pavement decorations, setting up sculptures and interesting scenes.

Xiangxue Spring-heralding Garden

Xiangxue Spring-heralding Garden---it is positioned on the south bank of Yiwu River, in a stage between Nanmen Bridge and Zhongjiang Bridge. The name of this garden is taken after the meaning of a poem that reads: “The beauty does not compete with spring; it only heralds the coming of spring.” Within the entire scenic place in the garden, it is mainly planted with the trees of pine, bamboo and plums backed by camphor tree, osmanthus and metachlamydea.

Yinhua Garden, Palm Tree Island and Fangcao Grass Land

Yinhua Garden, Palm Tree Island and Fangcao Grass Land ---they are on the south bank of Yiwu River, in a part between Binwang Bridge and Dongjiang Bridge. This park is human-oriented, which combines the classic horticultural design theory with that of the European styles, and enables the green lands’ environment to well satisfy the people’s needs by having Nianxi Brook passing in between.

Ji-water Spring Dawn

Ji-water Spring Dawn---it is on the south bank of Yiwu River, in a part between Dongjiang Bridge and Huangyuan Bridge. It is bounded on the south by the new Jinagdong Residential Quarters and faces the cultural park on the other bank across the river. This park is built by adopting the modern horticulture design method which integrates all the scenic landscapes like square, carved sculptures, pavilions, flower gallery, dock and other scenic sites with special purposes. The whole park can be divided into four big scenic zones as Sculpture Square, Flower Band, Spring Dawn Square and Petal Pavilion Square.

Sports & Tourism Resting Garden

Sports & Tourism Resting Garden---it is on the north bank of Yiwu River, in a part between Dongjiang Bridge and Binwang Bridge. It is an open-style riverside park and built with contemporary horticulture, which enables the garden becoming an urban green land in which masses can enjoy relaxation, recreation and physical exercises. Therefore the entire garden is designed to be two long narrow green bands, with small-stone-paved site, open dancing pool and flower beds among them, hence meeting the requirements of people’s morning exercises and dancing.

Jiangbin Theme Park

Jiangbin Theme Park is on the north side of Yiwu River, between Binwang Bridge and Zongze Bridge. It faces on the north, Jiangbin North Road and covers an area of 20.3 hectares. With a total investment of 50 million yuan, it was completed in October 2004. Jiangbin Theme Park lays emphasis on Yiwu’s local culture, which reflects the epochal spirit of Yiwu people who dare to pioneer the first. Taking green as the theme, the building of park pays great attention to ecology, being close to people’s life and people’s health and delightfulness. Known as a major theme leisure space, the park includes fountain square, water-dropping flower brook, curved lawn square, lake-water-viewing zone, children’s activity center and sunshine bathing site.