Those foreign students who come to learn Chinese in Yunnan in recent years may know the center of the new Kunming construction is moved to Chenggong New Area where the major colleges and universities are moved to. At present, the construction of the new area has made great progress. If you take bus to visit one of the universities there, you can see the beautiful Luo Long Park on the bus.
Luo Long Park is located besides Shilong Viaduct in Kunluo Road in Chenggong area. With a total investment of 140 million Yuan, it has been constructed as the first large modern park with the combination of gardens, leisure and landscape. With a total cover of 38.43 hectares, the water surface takes an area of 13.32 hectares. In the large space, many facilities are constructed such as small plazas, pavilions, corridors, etc. In wins the reputation of the “New Green Lake” because of the natural environment, green and dense vegetation and the clear water.
The park planning and construction is to focus on the water. Therefore, by making full use of the features of rich water resource from Luo Long River and the low terrain, it is constructed into a picturesque park. If you have chance to go there when you study Mandarin in Yunnan, you can also see that the artificial constructions and hills also one of the characteristics of the park. It is also designed like this for cooperating with Zhangguan Mountain Forest Park to form the feature of combination of mountains and water.
The construction of Luo Long Park began from December of 2006 and finally finished in 2008 after more than one year’s efforts. In total, an area of 400 thousand cubic meters was dug and about 17447 square kilometers of road constructed in the garden. Among the totally five small plazas, the theme of Sun Plaza is landscape, the topic of Huadeng Square is the ethnic cultural activities. If you attend to one-on-one Chinese learning programs in Kunming, you should also know Longzhu Plaza regards the stone scenes as theme and the Memorial Square focus on commemorating the war history.
Besides, Hubin Square is mainly the place for the lakeside ecology and the water activities. Of course, you can see some wooden and stone bridges above the river. About 980 meters of Luo Long River was transformed by building five bridges, three of them are arch bridges for landscape viewing.