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Olympic Forest Park is located in Beijing Chaoyang District North fifth Ring Road, east to Anli Road, west to Lin Road, north to Qinghe, south to Kehui Road. The park covers an area of 680 hectares, of which the south Park covers 380 hectares and the North park covers 300 hectares. The park is rich in forest resources, mainly trees and shrubs, with a green coverage rate of 95.61%. Olympic Forest Park is Olympic Park One of the terminal supporting construction projects, and the Olympic Park is National AAAAA tourist attraction .
Chinese name
Olympic Forest Park
Foreign name
Olympic forest park
Geographical position
33 Kehui Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing [1]
Climatic condition
North temperate monsoon climate
Opening hours
Peak season: March 15 - November 15 5:00-22:00; Off season November 16 - March 14 6:00- 21:00 [22] [27]
Scenic spot level
Class AAAAA
Ticket price
free
Floor space
About 680 hectares
Famous scenic spot
Ohai , Wet land , Heavenly realm , Forest Art Center , National unity pillar
Owning scenic spot
Olympic Park
Suggested play time
4-5 hours
Good season for play
The best months are March-May and September-November
Official telephone
010-64529060 [22]

Development history

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In November 2003, the Olympic Forest Park and central area landscape planning and design scheme solicitation selected 3 excellent schemes. The second option is Beijing Tsinghua Institute of Urban Planning and Design In collaboration with SASAKI Landscape Architects, the theme of the project is "Axis to Nature". [2]
On April 14, 2005, Beijing Municipal Planning Commission [2005]400 "Reply to the Review Opinions on the Planning and Design of Olympic Forest Park" instruction, in principle, through the planning and design of Olympic Forest Park, in the form of government documents to determine the "axis to nature" as the design theme. [2]
On June 30, 2005, the foundation stone was laid for the Olympic Forest Park project. [3]
In February 2006, the transportation system planning of Olympic Forest Park passed the traffic impact assessment. [4]
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 mountain structure was observed after a rainy season test, except the whole Mountain base No instability of the mountain occurred outside the settlement of about 2cm (within the predicted range of 30cm) landslip Phenomenon. The completion and acceptance of the main mountain filling project indicates that the large-scale earthwork in Forest Park has achieved great success. [5]
In August 2007, the Olympic Forest Park Archery Range was completed, and the Beijing International Archery Invitational Tournament (test event) was held in the same month. [6]
The water system and water quality maintenance system of Olympic Forest Park was completed in 2007 and put into operation in 2008. [25]
On June 20, 2008, the Olympic Forest Park was completed. [3]
On August 21, 2010, Beijing Olympic City Development Promotion Association Together with the Chaoyang District People's Government, the inauguration ceremony of the "Olympic Sculpture Park" was held in the Olympic Forest Park. Among the more than 2,400 entries in the "Beijing Olympic Landscape Sculpture Competition", 63 fine sculptures will be settled in the Olympic Forest Park. The three large sculptures, "Peace Pillar", "One Dream" and "Seeking Courage - The Way to China", together with the existing Belgian giant sculpture "Athlete's Road", 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. [7]
On June 23, 2012, the Olympic Declaration Square was inaugurated in the South Park of the Olympic Forest Park. [8]
In 2022, Beijing Olympic Forest Park will become Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics And the Winter Paralympics torch relay route, the theme of its point is "central axis charm", the core connotation is to reflect the green Winter Olympics concept, show the Olympic movement in the city's vigorous development of the realistic scene, is the ancient capital's history and culture and the Olympic spirit in the central axis of Beijing intersection. The Olympic torch relay took place on February 2 and February 4. [26]

Geographical environment

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Olympic Forest Park is located in Lincui Road, North Fifth Ring Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, 116°23 '2.98 "east longitude, 40°01' 3.00" north latitude, 9 km away from Tiananmen Square. The park covers an area of 680 hectares, the green area is 478 hectares, the water surface is 67.7 hectares, the green coverage rate is 95.61%. With the Fifth Ring Road as the boundary, the park is divided into two parks, the south park covers 380 hectares, the north park covers 300 hectares. [9]
landform
The geological structure of Olympic Forest Park is a river alluvial plain, and the main mountain is Yangshan, which is 86.5 meters above sea level and 48 meters high. The construction of "Yangshan" is completed by using the construction of surrounding venues such as bird's nest and water cube, and the earth mound generated by the digging of the lake in the park, with a total amount of about 5 million cubic meters of fill. The Mount Tai stone at the top of the mountain is 6 meters high and weighs 63 tons. Directly below it is the northern point of the central axis of Beijing.
Climatic characteristics
Olympic Forest Park is a temperate continental semi-humid monsoon climate with four distinct seasons and concentrated precipitation. Spring is dry and windy, and the temperature difference between day and night is large. Summer is hot and rainy; Autumn sunny less rain, warm and cold suitable, sufficient light; Winter is cold and dry with more wind and less snow. [10] The average annual temperature is 10-12 degrees Celsius, and July is the hottest, with an average temperature of 27.5 degrees Celsius and an average annual precipitation of 600 mm. [11]
Olympic Forest Park
Autumn scenery in park
Autumn view of Olympic Forest Park

Natural resources

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The Olympic Forest Park has a green area of 450 hectares and is a near-natural forest system composed of more than 200 species of plants in accordance with the design idea of biodiversity.

Plant resources

As of 2008, the park has more than 100 species of 530,000 trees, more than 80 species of shrubs and more than 100 species of cover plants, which constitute a natural forest system according to biodiversity. [12] include Platycladus orientalis , Torch tree , Populus tomentosa , Chinese pine , Ginkgo biloba Wait, no irrigation forsythia , Keria japonica , rosewood , euphorbia , Mountain peach , lespedeza Etc. Grass seed includes February orchid , Liriope , Purple flower herb , Fragrant plantain lily , Bison grass Etc. Aquatic vegetation has cattail and Reed . [11] Vegetation in the park produces 5,400 tons of oxygen, absorbs 32 tons of sulfur dioxide, and trees absorb 4,905 tons of dust.

Animal resources

Birds are the main animals in the park. As of 2013, 176 species of birds belonging to 16 orders and 51 families were recorded in the park. Among them, there are 55 species of summer migratory birds, 32 species of winter migratory birds, 102 species of traveling birds, 36 species of resident birds, 2 species of lost birds, and 2 species of released birds, reflecting a variety of residence types, covering Swimming bird , Wading bird , Land bird , Bird of prey , Climbing bird , songbird Six ecological groups. [11]

Main attraction

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amphitheater
The amphitheater is located to the north of the south entrance, backed by the Aohaiyang Mountain, and is the land terminus of the central axis of the city. It covers an area of about 40,000 square meters and can accommodate 20,000 people to watch the performance at the same time. It is mainly composed of the stage square, media area, viewing area and underground building, and it is combined with the fountain water feature and the landscape stage to form an outdoor performance venue. Which is embodied in the pavement pattern of the dance square moire , Reversal pattern , incense prints, etc. They express the good meaning of auspiciousness, happiness and a long history. [13]
Ohai
" Ohai Located on the north side of the south entrance of the park, there is an open-air performing arts square on the south bank, which is connected with the Olympic Landscape Avenue, with an area of about 40,000 square meters and can accommodate 20,000 spectators at the same time. The design of the grandstand of the Performing Arts Plaza is completed through the gentle slope of the terrain from south to north. On the north side of the open-air performing arts Square, there is also a large set of music laser fountain in the main lake, with a main spray height of 80 meters. [14]
Yangson
Yangshan is located in Beijing On the central axis, the main peak is 48 meters high. The main mountain of the forest park is named "Yangshan", which not only makes the local traditional place name "Yangshan" preserved, but also echoes the name "Jingshan". The Book of Songs The verses of "high mountains and scenery" and the word "admiration" are in line with the meaning of symmetry, balance and harmony in traditional Chinese culture. [13]
Heavenly realm [23]
"Tianjing" is located at the peak of "Yangshan" in the Forest park. On the "Tianjing", there is a special statue 5.7 meters high and weighing 63 tons Mount Taishan Transported to Beijing's landscape stone, around 29 trees Chinese pine It means the 29th Olympic Games.
"Chaohuatai" and "Xishiatai" are located on the east and west sides of the "Tianjing" respectively, and the two landscapes are named after Lu Xun Mr. 's collection of essays The morning and evening come and go ". [14]
Tengen
The Tianyuan Platform is located in Aohai Central axis On the island in the center of the lake, the circular waterfront horizontal platform extends to the water, which is a transition area between Aohai and Yangshan in the landscape sequence. The platform bears the grandeur of "Tianjing" and the concept of the unity of heaven and man, and echoes the central axis position of "Tianjing". [13]
The forests and springs are beautiful
The forest and spring are located in the southwest residual vein of "Yangshan", and the valley naturally formed by the mountain is designed as a line stream Waterfall, a total of three lakes and two peaks, a total length of about 370 meters. The waterfall at the top of the mountain, winding down, falling layer by layer, straight into the Aohai. [13]
Wet land
Artificial wetland Reed , cattails, Bulb sedge At the end of the forest, calamus and banana trees, walk 500 meters below the bridge to reach the water sink corridor, which is built under the water. The corridor is surrounded by glass handrails, through which you can see the underwater scenery.
On the west side of the underwater corridor is the "overlapping water platform", which uses the height difference from west to east to build three overlapping water platforms, and forms small waterfalls with different sound effects along with the cascade of water flow. In the "overlapping water platform" landscape, there are also crisscrossing ancient trees close to the water Plank road . [14]
Big Tree Garden (Arboretum)
The North Garden "Big Tree Garden" was donated free of charge by Ms. Li Xiaoxue from Hong Kong Chaoyang District The government's big tree garden covers an area of 1200 acres and 100,000 square meters of water. As of 2010, the park has 176 trees, including crape myrtle, ash, maple poplar, magnolia magnolia and ginkgo biloba, with nearly 30,000 trees. Some of the big trees are from The Three Gorges The "emigration" of the reservoir area. In winter, the staff will put charcoal fires around these trees from the south to warm them, so that they can survive the harsh winter in Beijing. High temperature and dry season, also play for trees to cool down spray; Some trees are prone to "disease", but also for the tree to play the bottle, the nutrient solution; They are rooted soil The ratio also refers to the soil composition of the "hometown". [13]
Swift Tower
Swift Tower is an artificial structure built for animals, the tower is 20 meters high and 2 meters square, and has a total of 2,240 nests. This is to... swift Provide shelter, but due to the scarcity of swifts and unreasonable design, the tower is inhabited by sparrows, and Chinese fir Brittle, easy to dry crack, easy to be eroded by rain and snow, so many nests are damaged and can not be used. [15]
Olympic Declaration Square [24]
The Olympic Declaration Square is shaped by five concentric circles, from the center of a 2.9 meter square copper floor, the wave-like expansion, symbolizing the continuation and relay of the Olympic spirit after the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing. It is engraved with the host cities, dates and sessions of the modern Olympic Games from 1896 to 2016, forming a pattern centered on the five rings. In the northern half of the outer circle, three curved copper steles with a total length of 29 meters form the "French, Chinese and English". Olympic Declaration "Carrier. The Chinese "Olympic Declaration" curved tablet body in the center, the main tablet. The main monument is 2.9 meters high, 1.99 meters wide and 0.38 meters thick, and has two sides on its back, engraved with Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the Olympic Games, and the president of the International Olympic Committee Rogge The relief image. The Olympic Declaration Square is constructed mainly of natural granite and bronze materials, with bronze "inscriptions" and engravings. The tablet body follows the symbols of Chinese cultural elements that appeared widely during the Beijing Olympic Games Auspicious clouds More borrow the form of traditional moire since the Han Dynasty to be embossed. [8]

Ecological design

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Olympic Forest Park was the first to adopt it fully Ecological energy saving Building technology for a large urban park. The park buildings all adopt ecological compensation technology to different degrees, and achieve the goal of saving energy by 50% ~ 65%.
Design and construction of China's first urban trans-highway large-scale Ecological corridor The forest park system is gradually transitioned from island type to network type and maintained Urban ecology The continuity and guarantee of green space system and pattern biodiversity The protection of species and habitats is conducive to urban ecological security.
The ecological water treatment display greenhouse in the park is the first of its kind in China's urban parks and the first to be fully adopted in China Rainwater harvesting Through various engineering and non-engineering means, 95% of the rainfall in the park is collected, which is equivalent to collecting about 1.34 million cubic meters of rain per year. It is used for afforestation irrigation and road spraying to ensure full, comprehensive and efficient water resource conservation in the forest park and realize the circulation of water in the park. The park also uses the world's leading level of intelligence Irrigation system Compared with conventional irrigation methods, the annual water saving can be 1 million cubic meters.
The park is the first urban park in China to achieve zero sewage discharge (including toilet sewage), and the sewage is recycled after ecological treatment. The park has adopted MBR biofilm, biofilm, Microbial degradation Feces and other advanced water treatment technology to treat the park sewage, made of efficient Ecological fertilizer Applied to garden maintenance. The project is listed as a national key project of the Ministry of Science and Technology in the 11th Five-Year Plan [3] .

Honor received

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In 2007, the design of Olympic Forest Park won the first prize of the International Landscape Architecture Award. [17]
In 2008, Olympic Forest Park won the President's Award (First Prize) in the Landscape Architecture Planning category for the Asia Pacific region. In the same year, the park won the first prize in the category of Urban Green Space in the 5th International Landscape Architecture Award in Tosa Lorenzo, Italy. [18]
In 2009, Olympic Forest Park received an Honorary Design Award from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). [19]
In 2011, Olympic Forest Park received the Chicago Green Good Design Award. [20]
In 2013, the park was officially awarded the title of "National 5A Tourist Attraction" by the National Tourism Administration. [21]

Tourist information

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Olympic Forest Park
Beijing downtown to Olin Forest Park:
Nanyuan South Gate: Get off at Forest Park Station on Metro Olympic Branch Line (Line 8).
Nanyuan East Gate: BRT Line 3 Get off at Yangshanqiao South Station.
North Park East Gate: BRT Line 3 Yangshanqiao North Station.
Ticket information
free
Opening hours
Peak season (March 15 - November 15) : 6:00 am - 21:00 PM, 22:00 PM Jing Yuan
Off-season (November 16 - March 14) : 6:00 am - 20:00 PM, 21:00 PM Jing Yuan