Fuxing Island Park

Fuxing Island Park is a small park built by Japanese in 1937. It is very Japanese style. It is full of green shade, clusters of flowers and plants, as well as the big lawn, cherry blossom path, small pond and bamboo house. All of them show the design feeling of that year and are very exquisite. There is also a white house in the park where Chiang Kai Shek once lived before he left Shanghai for Taiwan. There are few people in the park. It's quiet and suitable for cycling.

Fuxing Island Park

Fuxing Island Park is located at 386 Gongqing Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, 6 km away from Wusongkou. It faces Huangpu River in the East, South and North, and Fuxing Island canal in the West.

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Development history

Before the Huangpu River flowed into the Yangtze River, the river became wider and the water potential became slower, forming shoals on the convex bank. After the establishment of the tanpu Bureau in 1905, the Huangpu River began to be renovated. From 1915 to 1916, stone dykes were built on the east side of the island to promote siltation, and soil was dredged to an elevation of 5.5m. In July 1926, 8.28 million cubic meters of mud was dredged from the Huangpu River to form a crescent shaped artificial island with a length of 3.4 kilometers from north to south, an average width of 427 meters and an area of about 1.5 square kilometers.

Fuxing Island changed its name two times. When the Huangpu River began to be renovated in 1905, it was called Zhoujiazui island because there was Zhoujiazui natural village beside it. After the Japanese occupation in 1937, it was renamed Dinghai island because of Dinghai road. In 1945, it was renamed Fuxing island to commemorate the victory of the Anti Japanese war. In 1927, it began to develop and build factories and oil depots. In 1934, it became the base of xunpu Bureau. After 1949, it became the concentrated area of fuel, timber, oil and commercial storage and transportation warehouses in Shanghai.

Gongqing road runs through the whole island, with Haian road and Bridge in the north and Dinghai road and Bridge in the south. Dinghaiqiao ferry station has ferries connecting the two sides of Huangpu River, with convenient water and land transportation. Fuxing Island Park in the middle of the island is lush, which is a good place for island residents to rest. Fuxing island is also the anchorage of China's marine scientific research vessels.

In January 1951, the Municipal Port Authority proposed to the Municipal People's government that it should be changed into a park. With the approval of the municipal government, the park management office of the municipal works bureau slightly reorganized it and opened it to the public on May 28 of that year.

In 1926, the Shanghai Junpu Bureau dredged mud to fill the beach in the east of Zhoujiazui corner and named Zhoujiazui island. The next year, the Bureau bought the island from the government. After the completion of mud blowing in the middle of the island in the 19th year of the Republic of China, the Sports Association of Shanghai Junpu Bureau was built on the foundation of the park, covering an area of 40500 square meters. After the August 13 incident in the 26th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese invading army designated the whole island as a forbidden area and renamed it Dingdao. The sports garden was transformed into a Japanese style garden, in which evergreen trees and spherical shrubs were planted widely, and cherry blossoms were planted everywhere. In the 34th year of the Republic of China, the Japanese army surrendered and the island was renamed Fuxing island. In the 36th year of the Republic of China, the Kuomintang government returned Fuxing island to Junpu Bureau for use, and built a "Fuxing Island recovery monument" (destroyed) in the garden. After liberation, this place was taken over by Shanghai port administration. In January 1951, the Municipal Port Authority proposed to the Municipal People's government that it should be changed into a park. With the approval of the municipal government, the park management office of the municipal works bureau slightly reorganized it and opened it to the public on May 28 of that year.

Tourism information

Practical information

Opening hours: 1:00-18:00, April 1-June 30

Opening hours: 2:00-5:00-19:00, July 1-September 30

Opening hours: 3:00-6:00-18:00, October 1-March 31

Traffic information

Route: 577

Metro Line: Shanghai rail transit line 12, Fuxing Island Station, exit 2.

Self driving: transfer from Yangshupu Road to Dinghai road and cross Dinghai road bridge to Fuxing Island Park on Gongqing road

Address: 386 Gongqing Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai

Scenery in the park

Because the park is rebuilt by the sports garden, so the greening foundation is better. At the beginning of the opening of the park, bamboo fences were used as walls, and the garden road was used as cinder pavement. In addition to the original house of Junpu Bureau, there were two grass pavilions, one Wisteria trellis with wood structure, and several Japanese style simple houses built by the Japanese army. In 1972, walls and ticket booths were built along Gongqing road. In 1976, all garden roads were paved with concrete and stone. After 1980, a new rest corridor was built and Wisteria trellis was rebuilt. Located in the north of the park, the large lawn covers an area of nearly 10000 square meters. Camphor trees are planted in the center of the lawn. There is a corridor at the south end of the lawn with built-in reinforced concrete tables and stools. In the north of the lawn is the main building of the former Junpu Sports Association, with brick and wood structure, a platform in front of the door, and a Wisteria trellis in the West. In the center of the park is the courtyard Park, which is divided into East and west by the Garden Road, and both retain the Japanese style of courtyard. On the east side of the garden, there are small mounds with scattered stones and evergreen spherical shrubs such as Pittosporum and Euonymus japonicus. There is a "heart" shaped small pool in the northwest of the mound, with an island in the middle and a flat bridge in the south. On the west side of the garden is a Wisteria corridor with a small lawn, surrounded by a osmanthus forest and a tree lined path.

The park is mainly landscaped by plants, surrounded by palm, metasequoia, coral trees and other trees as hedges. There are 12000 square meters of lawn in the garden, accounting for one fourth of the total area. In addition, there are a lot of ground cover plants. There are 71 species of trees and shrubs, such as Cinnamomum camphora, Magnolia grandiflora, juniper, Pinus thunbergii, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Pittosporum, Osmanthus fragrans, wisteria, and 3359 plants.

At the south end of the park, there is a small nursery with an area of 7000 square meters, in which there is an aluminum alloy greenhouse and an earth temperature chamber for cultivating grass flowers and greenhouse flowers.

After many years of adjustment and reconstruction, the park has broken the original pattern. The whole park can be divided into three parts: big lawn, garden area and flower production area.

At the entrance of the garden, there are trees on both sides of the avenue. At the end of the road, the original monument "Fuxing Island recovery monument" has been destroyed during the "Cultural Revolution", and now only the bottom one is left. On the north side of the avenue is Yihong, which is actually a drainage Daming ditch. Passing through the ditch is a large lawn, covering an area of nearly 10000 square meters. It is dotted with Cinnamomum camphora, with towering trees. It's very interesting. In midsummer, the sun is scorching. Under the Cinnamomum camphora trees, the lawn is quite cool.

In the south of the avenue is the court park. On the southwest side of the garden gate, there is a small lawn, next to which is a Wisteria Pavilion corridor. There is a earth mountain in the southeast of the corridor, and a small pool in the northwest corner, which is shaped like a heart. There is an island in the center of the pool. There is a flat bridge at the south end of the pool, and a cliff at the north end. The hill is very low, less than one meter high. It is mainly made of soil and scattered with stones. The narrow and dense paths pass through the "Valley". There are evergreen trees and needles planted on the mountain The leaves are clumsy, mainly pines and cypresses, and the shrubs are mostly spherical, such as Pittosporum, Euonymus japonicus, coral, etc.; at the end of the avenue, there is a stone road to the southwest, which divides the garden into East and west parts, and cherry blossoms are planted all over the road, which is a major feature of Fuxing Island Park. When cherry blossoms are in full bloom, visitors come in an endless stream to take pictures and admire them. There is a flower bed in the east of the road and a flower garden in the south of the road. It is a flower production area, covering an area of nearly 0.7 hectares.

There are 71 varieties of camphor tree, including magnolia, Magnolia, Pinus thunbergii, cedar, osmanthus, metasequoia, Wutong, tung tree, red maple, holly, palm, boxwood, jujube, iron tree, evergreen and shrub. There are more than 3000 species of trees and shrubs, and the total area of turf is 1.2 hectares (16 mu). It is covered with green and shade all year round.

Address: 386 Gongqing Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai

Longitude: 121.56190397669

Latitude: 31.286678245935

Tel: 021-65683806

Tour time: 1 hour

Traffic information: Fuxing Island Park Station of bus no.577; Fuxing Island Station of rail transit line 12; ferry Dinghai bridge ferry.

Ticket information: Free

Opening hours: 6:00-18:00 from October to March;

April June 5:00-18:00;

July September 5:00-19:00