_{Qinglong Lake Image: Chengdu Tianfu Greenway Culture and Tourism Group}

Since the 19th century, European and American cities began to construct the public leisure road system. On the one hand, urban greenways meet the needs of urban residents for leisure transportation, and on the other hand, they also realize the unique urban road system for pedestrian transportation. Its constantly improving level of urban public services is also a sign of the maturity of modern cities. Since the announcement of Chengdu Tianfu Greenway Planning and Construction Plan in 2017, the construction of Tianfu Greenway, marked by the construction of Chengdu City-ringPark, has been officially launched. Three years later, the Tianfu Greenway System in Chengdu started from "0". By the end of last year, the total mileage had exceeded 4,000 kilometers, ranking first in China. Among them,Qinglong Lake, as an important part of the first phase of Chengdu City-ringpark to the Olympic Games site, attracts more attention with its unique natural landscape advantage.

_{Qinglong Lake Reservoir Image: Zhu Xin}

Coming to Qinglong Lake, the first thing rush into your eyesis Qinglong Lake reservoir. Under the bushes and bushes at the entrance, it seems ancient and mysterious.

_{Qinglong Lake in the Sunset Image: Zhu Xin}

Based on its regional excellent ecological background, natural landscape and historical human landscape resource, the first stage construction followed the principle of eco-first, human landscape conservation, dynamic & static area division and human-landscape interaction, carefully divided out static conservation area and dynamic area. By different design approaches such as reorganizing water runoff enhancing traffic system, building gardens 8 infrastructures and planting trees, we try to create an eco-cultural scenic region with human & nature harmony. In this region, the static area takes about 2400 acres , which is 51 % of the first stage project . lt aimed at rare birds ' protection providing relative independent of ecological living space for wildlife and wild plants. The dynamic area is divided into the entrance area, the LOHAS bankside area and the historical areawithmultiple pedestrian systems to use the surrounding landscape to set up unique scenery spots, The liaison between these two big areas are based on 12 kilometers-long main road which is constructed from the existing roads. By this way the ecological and humanism landscape can become a perfect blend. Another high light of this first stage landscape is abundant four season characteristic plants which form diverse color layers along the bankside. We planted 5,000 cherry blossom trees and3,600 color-leaf trees to meet the needs of spring flower enjoying and autumn color-leaf enjoying. After its completion, this lake will definitely be a place of interest for citizen waterfront recreation, ecological education and vacation.

_{A Corner of the Lawn in Qinglong Lake Image: Zhu Xin}

"The second phase of Qinglong Lake covers an area of about 6,080 acres, with a water area of 1,648.5 acres, extending to the surrounding area on the basis of the first phase." The person in charge of Chengdu Tianfu Greenway Company introduced that Qinglong Lake starts from Chengluo Road in the north, Chengdu-Chongqing Expressway in the south, Shihong Avenue in the west and Ring Expressway in the east.Compared to the first phase, the second phase is more extensive, with the entire park likely to take three or four hours.

_{Citizens Jogging in the Park Image: Zhu Xin}

As an important part of the first phase project of Chengdu city-ringPark, Qinglong Lake aims to build a model of urban ecological lake area with "four states in one" of form, business, culture and ecology, and become a "tourism belt" in the eastern suburbs of Chengdu. According to statistics, there are more than 200 kinds of wild birds in Qinglong Lake, among which 29 are rare, vulnerable and endangered, and there are three critically endangered species -- Baer’spochard, which is only 500 in the world.

_{Lake front Image: Zhu Xin}

In addition to enjoying the beautiful environment, stroll around Qinglong Lake and you can see buildings that show the western Sichuan style every few hundred meters. In the future, these buildings will be built by more businesses, creating a rich living and consumption scene for tourists. In addition, qinglong Lake will be a good place for athletes to relax during the future Universiade in Chengdu. For the public at present, whether it is a family outing, a photo clock, or a shrine to the memory of a wedding, Qinglong Lake can become an ideal setting for people living in this park city.