The largest square in China
The largest square in China is Dalian Xinghai Square.
Xinghai Square is located in Shahekou District, Dalian City. It is undoubtedly famous for its size. It is the largest in the world and is so big that it makes you doubt your life. It is one of the city symbols of Dalian. Xinghai Square covers a total area of 1.76 million square meters and is the world's largest urban public square. Its outer circumference is 2.5 kilometers, which is four times the area of Beijing's Tiananmen Square. It has replaced Tiananmen Square as the world's largest square with an absolute advantage.
Xinghai Plaza was originally an abandoned landfill in Xinghai Bay. The Xinghai Bay renovation project started on July 16, 1993, using construction waste to reclaim 114 hectares of land and develop 62 hectares of land. Nowadays, it has become a prosperous city center, a geomantic treasure land with precious land, surrounded by high-rise buildings. Xinghai Square has also become a must-visit place for many foreign tourists to Dalian.
Landscape architecture of Xinghai Square
1. Pool landscape
The water landscape of Xinghai Square is distributed in the central star-shaped square, the centenary sculpture square and the middle of the square. There are two main forms of fountains and running water in the road; among them, the peripheral water landscape is arranged along a circular pattern, with nine groups of musical fountains, and the water landscape of the central pedestrian avenue has fifty groups of colorful music. Fountains, each group of musical fountains is composed of eight groups of beautifully carved granite in a circular shape.
2. Green landscape
Except for the paved ground, the rest of Xinghai Square is occupied by lawns. A large number of hedges are planted on the lawns, and traditional Chinese-style patterns are trimmed; At the same time, in addition to lawns and hedges, a small number of trees were planted on the outermost ring road of the square to separate the square from the external roads and provide cooling for tourists and citizens.
The above content refers to Baidu Encyclopedia-Xinghai Square