Details of Nanjing Laoshan National Forest Park (Laoshan, Pukou District, Nanjing)

Nanjing Laoshan National Forest Park is located in Laoshan Forest Farm in the middle of Pukou District, Nanjing, which runs across Pukou District, with the Yangtze River in the south and the Chuhe River in the north. Known as "the green lung of Nanjing and the pearl of Jiangbei", it is a popular science education and environmental education base in Jiangsu Province and the largest national forest park in Jiangsu Province.

Laoshan Mountain is the remaining vein of Huaiyang Mountain, which runs across Pukou and the mountains are undulating. There are nearly 100 peaks, 35km long from east to west and 15km wide from north to south, with a total area of 7493.33 hectares. The forest coverage rate is over 80%, and the air is rich in negative oxygen ions. It is not only the habitat of egrets and herons, but also the largest domestication base of grey magpies in China.

Laoshan Mountain has been famous for its beautiful mountains and rivers and numerous landscapes since ancient times, and its natural landscape is known as "forest, spring, stone and cave". Natural landscape and human landscape are integrated, Song Wudi Emperor Wu of Song, Liang Wudi Xiao Yan and their eldest sons Prince Zhaoming and Han Xizai; Wang Anshi, Su Shi and Qin Guan in Song Dynasty; Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, Chen Xianzhang and Zhuang Dingshan; In the late Qing Dynasty, celebrities such as Li Hongzhang and Zhang Xun stopped to visit Laoshan Mountain.