Shanghai District

Shanghai

Garden

Shanghai Public Park

The Chinese love their public parks (gongyuan) and frequent them often. This picture shows a small green area not too far from Shanghai People’s Park (Renmin Gongyuan). This particular green area is new as are many other green areas and parks. Shanghai is quickly becoming a very comfortable modern urban environment. Facilitating this change is the city’s recent “green campaign” which has resulted in the building of many first-class parks as well as the planting of more than 100,000 trees within the past two years alone.

7-21-01