Landscape of Huanbei Park at Wulinmen Wharf in Hangzhou Photo courtesy of Hangzhou Business Travel Canal Group
Zhongxin. com, Hangzhou, February 16 th: A landmark pier along the Hangzhou Canal has been newly added with a variety of docks and visitor centers.
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Recently, many citizens in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province have found that Wulinmen Wharf, a landmark in Hangzhou, located in the core area of Hangzhou section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, has undergone new changes.
Among them, its supporting Huanbei Park has completed the landscape upgrade and has been officially opened to the outside world. At the same time, the supporting facilities of aquatic industry including bus terminal, cruise terminal, yacht terminal and tourist service center have been transformed and expanded.
Wulinmen Wharf is one of the old landmarks in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. Since the 1980s, Wulinmen Wharf has been the most important hub of the Hangzhou section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and an important window to show the image of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and Hangzhou city.
However, with the continuous development of water passenger transport in Hangzhou, a series of problems have gradually emerged in Wulinmen Wharf, such as imperfect wharf functions and outdated infrastructure.
Therefore, since last year, Wulinmen Wharf and its surrounding areas have been upgraded as a whole. It is reported that this renovation project takes Wulinmen Wharf as the core, transforming and expanding water bus Wharf, cruise wharf, yacht wharf and other aquatic industry supporting facilities, transforming waterfront landscape corridors, and building new landscape corridors, parks around the North, tourist consultation points and tourist service centers.
It is understood that before the upgrading, the block was divided into east and west sides by the Cultural Square Bridge. The Wulinmen Wharf and Hangzhou Mansion, located on the west side, occupy a small area, but they carry a large number of citizens and tourists. Although Huanbei Park, located on the east side, covers a large area, its popularity has been slightly “cold and cheerless” compared with the former. The whole is that the west is heavy and the east is light.
After the renovation, Huanbei Park has designed an optimized barrier-free passage and opened up a public activity space with sparse layout and appropriate scale. At the same time, the supporting facilities of aquatic industry, such as bus terminal, cruise terminal and tourist service center, have been built.
Among them, the docks have been completed and have not yet been put into use. The tourist service center located on the east side of the park is basically completed, and it is being renovated at present. It is planned to be opened before the Asian Games, when citizens can get on the boat and enjoy the scenery of the canal.
It is worth mentioning that the newly-built tourist service center is located underground. “You can go down to the underground waiting area by elevator. The waiting area is almost flush with the canal water surface, which is quite an interesting experience.” The relevant person in charge of the Hangzhou Business Travel Canal Group Project said.
This renovation project, in the view of the relevant person in charge, a series of comprehensive constructions have effectively connected the water area with the land area, created a high-quality outdoor tourism and leisure place, and completely reversed the slightly outdated image of the original Wulinmen Wharf, and built a brand-new and full of vitality..City symbol. (End)
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