Preview of the highlights of Jinhai Wetland Park reopening after upgrade in Pudong New Area

The Municipal Greening and City Appearance Bureau stated that the Jinhai Wetland Park, located at No. 198 Mintang Road, Caolu Town, Pudong New District, has a total area of ??41.8 hectares and is one of the seven parks built around the city during Shanghai’s “14th Five-Year Plan” period. One of the demonstration projects, it is also the only park featuring wetlands in Shanghai's outer ring green belt. It has been upgraded since July. Recently, the renovated Jinhai Wetland Park has reopened. Let’s take a look at the highlights after the upgrade:

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Along the Outer Ring Expressway, after more than 20 years of continuous construction, an outer ring road is 98 kilometers long and has an average width of about 500 meters. The green belt surrounds Shanghai like an "emerald necklace". During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Shanghai will select 36 green spaces to be upgraded and transformed into parks based on the good ecological background of the outer ring green belt, oriented to the needs of citizens, and comprehensively considering factors such as location conditions and the distribution of surrounding residential areas. There are 14 existing parks in the ring, forming a park group of 50 parks in the ring, creating an iconic green ecological open space. Among them, 16 Huanshang Parks will be built in the Pudong section.

Jinhai Wetland Park has been upgraded and renovated since July. This renovation is mainly to retain the ecological base, improve functions and increase natural vitality. The park renovation overcame many difficulties and challenges such as a tight construction period, high temperatures and heat, cross-operations, low temperatures and cold waves, and epidemic prevention and control. With the active efforts of various departments and participating units, they worked hard to catch up with the construction deadline, and finally completed the construction successfully at the end of the year.

Highlight 1: Optimizing habitats to create natural habitats for wild animals

Jinhai Wetland Park, positioned as a wetland landscape area, is one of the first batch of 12 named wild animal habitats in the city. one.

According to the habitat bird resource survey in recent years, a total of 56 species of birds have been recorded in Jinhai Wetland, with more than 1,500 birds per year, including rare birds such as white-bellied bluebirds, sandpipers, and woodcocks. , but the only drawback is that there are fewer aquatic birds.

This park renovation pays special attention to optimizing the habitat and creating a more suitable habitat for wild animals. In order to attract more birds to the Jinhai Wetland Park, on the basis of the original lakes, islands and tidal flats, through appropriate artificial intervention, the aquatic habitat system will be improved, shallow rocky beaches and bird-attracting plant types will be added to create a place for biodiversity protection. base.

By blocking external pollution, replacing water bodies after dredging, re-excavating waterways, increasing emergent, submerged and floating plants, and adding benthic animals and microorganisms, we will build a water ecosystem and water body self-circulation. The system has upgraded the water quality of the park from Class V to Class III, and increased the transparency of the water body from the original 0.5 meters to 1.2-1.5 meters.

In addition, the water body shape, plant composition and revetment appearance in the original water network wetland are not conducive to the stay of waterbirds. In this renovation, several stone beaches were specially selected to create a plant growth environment in the gaps, creating a space suitable for waterbirds to rest, hide and forage.

“In the shallow water beach, we have created more spaces suitable for waterbirds to rest and hide. The birds want to come out to hunt and rest, so if the space is enriched, they will stay here.” The designer said, "In order to provide fruits for forest birds to eat, the park has also planted hawthorn trees, plum trees, wolfberry trees and other fruit trees that forest birds love to eat."

I believe that this wetland will soon be It will attract more abundant bird resources and bring more birdsong and fragrance to the reinforced concrete city.

Wandering for bird watching, close to nature, and beautiful encounters with wild animals will soon come true.

Highlight 2: Rewilding design promotes harmonious development between man and nature

The renovation and upgrading of Jinhai Wetland Park revolves around "respecting nature, complying with nature, and protecting nature". Based on the concept of "rewilding design", the design was optimized while focusing on retaining the original ecological natural base, retaining the original green space to the maximum extent, and "leaving blank space" for endless life. At the same time, more types of wetland habitats, such as sand, were carefully created. Stone beaches, mudflats, isolated islands, etc.

“There is an isolated island in the garden. We originally thought it was ordinary, and we planned to transform it.

When the access road was ready to go to the island, we found that the terrain there was very varied. The vegetation that was planted back then has now grown into a dense forest, which we retained. ” said the designer.

In this renovation, the isolated island and the southern corner forest in the park were selected for rewilding design. By consulting scientific research institutions and wildlife conservation social groups, the plan was continuously optimized to reduce the impact of human activities on the ecosystem. The intervention and influence allow trees and weeds to grow naturally, gradually restoring the wilderness attributes of the natural ecosystem, making it a natural habitat for animals, fully practicing the wildernessization process in different habitats, and promoting the harmonious development of man and nature.

Highlight 3: Upgraded science popularization integrates visit, practice and interaction

With the good natural background of Jinhai Wetland, this upgrade focuses on creating habitat science popularization, making the park a place where adults and adults A natural classroom with good interaction and emphasis on experience. Pudong has added a new science check-in point that can be seen and experienced.

The renovated park is bounded by Qinjiagang, and the north area focuses on "wetland interaction." Experience", focusing on the interactive experience of wetland revetment; the southern area focuses on "wetland habitat science popularization" and expands diversified wetland tour methods.

The park has a wetland science popularization stone garden, a forest interactive science popularization garden, a wetland There are rich and diverse ecological education interactive areas such as science popularization hall, historical exhibition hall, wetland plank road plant science popularization area, forest bird observation area, and waterbird observation area.

The wetland science popularization museum will use pictures, texts, videos and other diversified information. The form promotes wetland science knowledge to the public, and through the construction of small wetlands, the wetland theme display is extended from indoors to outdoors.

The external platform of the science popularization museum is a location with a very good view of the park. You can watch the scenery of the wetland up close, the seasonal changes of plants, and the scenes of birds hunting, playing, and resting. Then, through the approximately 700-meter-long wooden boardwalk, visitors can truly experience the wetland