Olympic Forest Park

The Olympic Forest Park, located at the northernmost end of Beijing's central axis extension line, is the largest urban green landscape in Asia, larger than the summer palace and the summer palace combined. The forest park is divided into North and south gardens, and is connected by an ecological bridge full of plants across the Fifth Ring Road. The South Garden is dominated by large-scale natural landscape, while the North Garden is dominated by small stream landscape and natural wild forest. It is a well deserved "green lung" in the urban area of Beijing. The most famous landscapes in the forest park are "Yangshan" and "Aohai". In addition to the beautiful scenery, it is also a place for local residents to enjoy leisure and entertainment. At the same time, you can enjoy the authentic life of Beijing people.

Olympic Forest Park

The Olympic Forest Park is located in lincui Road, North Fifth Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, with Anli road in the East, lincui road in the west, Qinghe Road in the north and Kehui road in the south. The park covers an area of 680 hectares, including 380 hectares for the South Park and 300 hectares for the North Park. The park is rich in forest resources, mainly trees and shrubs, with greening coverage rate of 95.61%. The Olympic Forest Park is one of the terminal supporting construction projects of the Olympic Park, and the Olympic Park is a national AAAAA tourist attraction.

Development history

In November 2003, three excellent schemes were selected from the landscape planning and design scheme collection activities of the Olympic Forest Park and the central area. The second scheme is a cooperation scheme between Tsinghua Institute of urban planning and design in Beijing and Sasaki landscape design company in the United States, with the theme of "axis leading to nature"

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On April 14, 2005, Beijing Municipal Planning Commission issued No. 400 "reply to the review opinions on the planning and design scheme of the Olympic Forest Park". In principle, it adopted the planning and design scheme of the Olympic Forest Park and determined "the axis leading to nature" as the design theme in the form of government documents

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On June 30, 2005, the construction of the Olympic Forest Park project began to lay the foundation

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In February 2006, the traffic system planning of the Olympic Forest Park passed the traffic impact assessment

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On April 29, 2006, after 120 days of construction, the main mountain filling project reached the design elevation, and the main peak was successfully capped. The observation of the mountain structure after a rainy season test shows that there is no landslide phenomenon except the settlement of the whole mountain foundation about 2cm (within the predicted range of 30cm). The completion and acceptance of the main Hill filling project marks the great success of the large-scale earthwork project in the forest park

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In August 2007, the archery field of the Olympic Forest Park was completed, and the Beijing International Archery Invitational Competition (test competition) was held in that month

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The water system and water quality maintenance system of Olympic Forest Park was completed in 2007 and put into operation in 2008

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On June 20, 2008, the Olympic Forest Park was completed

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On August 21, 2010, Beijing Olympic City Development Promotion Association and Chaoyang District People's Government jointly held the ribbon cutting ceremony for the completion of the "Olympic Sculpture Garden" in the Olympic Forest Park. Among more than 2400 entries in the "Beijing Olympic landscape sculpture scheme competition", 63 exquisite sculptures will be located in the Olympic Forest Park. "Peace pillar", "one dream" and "searching for courage -- the way to enter China", together with the existing Belgian giant sculpture "the way of athletes" in the park, constitute the core area of the Olympic Sculpture Park. The rest of the fine sculptures are scattered throughout the park, creating an Olympic cultural atmosphere together with the original 13 Olympic sculptures in the park

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On June 23, 2012, the opening ceremony of the Olympic Declaration Square was held in the South Park of the Olympic Forest Park

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geographical environment

Olympic Forest Park is located in lincui Road, North Fifth Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 116 ° 23 ′ 2.98 ″ e, 40 ° 01 ′ 3.00 ″ n, 9 km away from Tiananmen. The park covers an area of 680 hectares, with 478 hectares of green area and 67.7 hectares of water surface. The green coverage rate is 95.61%. Bounded by the Fifth Ring Road, the park is divided into the South Park and the North Park. The South Park covers an area of 380 hectares and the North Park covers an area of 300 hectares.

topographic features

The geological structure of Olympic Forest Park is river alluvial plain. The main mountain is "Yangshan". The elevation of Yangshan is 86.5 meters and the relative height is 48 meters. The construction of "Yangshan" is completed by using the construction of the bird's nest, water cube and other surrounding venues, as well as the earthwork generated by digging the lake in the park. The total amount of filling is about 5 million cubic meters. At the top of the mountain, Taishan stone is 6 meters high and weighs 63 tons. Just below it is the north end of Beijing's central axis.

Climatic characteristics

Olympic Forest Park is a temperate continental semi humid monsoon climate with four distinct seasons and concentrated precipitation. In spring, it is dry and windy, with large temperature difference between day and night; in summer, it is hot and rainy; in autumn, it is sunny and rainy, with suitable temperature and sufficient light; in winter, it is cold and dry, with more wind and less snow.

The annual average temperature is 10-12 ℃, the hottest in July, the average temperature is 27.5 ℃, and the annual average precipitation is 600 mm.

natural resources

The green area of the Olympic Forest Park is 450 hectares. It is a near natural forest system composed of more than 200 kinds of plants according to the design idea of biodiversity.

plant resources

Up to 2008, there are more than 100 kinds of trees, more than 80 kinds of shrubs and more than 100 kinds of ground cover plants in the park, which constitute the natural forest system according to the biodiversity.

It includes Platycladus orientalis, loblolly tree, Populus tomentosa, Pinus tabulaeformis, gingko, etc., shrubs include Forsythia suspensa, Ditang, red Ruimu, broccoli, hickory, Lespedeza, etc., grass species include Cymbidium, Ophiopogon japonicus, viola viola, Hosta, Buffalo Grass, etc., and aquatic vegetation includes cattail and reed.

The vegetation in the park produces 5400 tons of oxygen, absorbs 32 tons of sulfur dioxide and holds 4905 tons of dust.

Animal resources

As of 2013, 176 species of birds belonging to 16 orders and 51 families have been recorded in the park. Among them, there are 55 kinds of summer migratory birds, 32 kinds of winter migratory birds, 102 kinds of migratory birds, 36 kinds of resident birds, 2 kinds of stray birds and 2 kinds of free birds, which reflect a variety of residence types and cover six ecological groups of swimming birds, wading birds, land birds, raptors, climbing birds and songbirds.

Main attractions

ecological design

The Olympic Forest Park is the first large-scale urban park to adopt ecological energy-saving building technology. The park buildings have adopted ecological compensation technology in varying degrees, achieving the goal of energy saving of 50% - 65%.

The design and construction of China's first large-scale ecological corridor across expressways in the city has gradually transformed the forest park system from island type to network type, maintained the continuity of urban ecological green space system and pattern, guaranteed biodiversity, protected species and habitats, and is conducive to urban ecological security.

The demonstration greenhouse for ecological water treatment in the park is the first in China's urban parks, and it is the first large-scale urban park in China to fully adopt rainwater collection technology. Through various engineering and non engineering means, it collects 95% of the rainfall in the park, which is equivalent to collecting about 1.34 million cubic meters of rainwater every year. It is used for greening irrigation and road spraying to ensure the full, comprehensive and efficient water resource saving in the forest park and realize the water circulation in the park. The park also adopts the world's leading intelligent irrigation system, which can save 1 million cubic meters of water annually compared with conventional irrigation methods.

The park takes the lead in realizing zero discharge of sewage (including toilet sewage) in Chinese urban parks, and the sewage is recycled after ecological treatment. The park adopts advanced water treatment technologies such as MBR biofilm, biological fast separation, microbial degradation of feces and so on to treat the park sewage and make efficient ecological fertilizer for garden maintenance. The project has been listed as a national key project of the 11th Five Year Plan of the Ministry of science and technology

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Honors

In 2007, the design scheme of Olympic Forest Park won the first prize of International Landscape Architecture Award.

In 2008, the Olympic Forest Park won the president's Award (first prize) for Landscape Architecture Planning in the Asia Pacific region. In the same year, the park won the first prize of urban green space category in the Fifth International Landscape Architecture Award competition in torsa Lorenzo, Italy.

In 2009, the Olympic Forest Park won the ASLA honorary design award.

In 2011, the Olympic Forest Park won the Chicago green excellence design award.

In 2013, the park was officially awarded the title of "national 5A scenic spot" by the National Tourism Administration

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Tourism information

traffic

From downtown Beijing to Aolin Forest Park:

South Gate of South Park: get off at the Forest Park Station of the Subway Olympic Extension (line 8).

East Gate of Nanyuan: get off at yangshanqiao South Station of BRT line 3.

East Gate of Beiyuan: get off at yangshanqiao North Station of BRT line 3.

Ticket information

Free Admission

Opening Hours

Peak season (March 15 - November 15): 6:00 a.m. - 21:00 p.m., 22:00 p.m. Jingyuan

Off season (November 16 to March 14): 6:00 a.m. - 20:00 p.m