Gucheng Park, Urban park in Huangpu District, China.
Gucheng Park is a park at the east end of Renmin Road in Huangpu District, Shanghai, made up of three separate green plots arranged roughly east to west; plot A, the main section, covers 3.5 hectares and holds a preserved building. The grounds contain a sunken plaza, a fishpond, lawns with topiary, a bamboo copse, and an outdoor tea house whose tables stand among tall trees. Near the tea house is the dark gray-and-white mansion of the South Shanghai Bankers' Club, built in 1883.
Gucheng Park was built as part of the redevelopment of the Yuyuan area and opened on 31 May 2002, after construction began on 10 February 2002. Designed by Tongji University's College of Architecture and Urban Planning, it was the old city's first large green space, with a total investment of nearly one billion yuan. Sections of Shanghai's old city walls were reconstructed within the park.
The park preserves a kitchen from a shikumen stone-gate house whose residents were relocated when the park was built. It retains a cement sink, old-style taps and a blue-stone floor, with a small bamboo copse beside it. Nearby stands the 1883 mansion of the South Shanghai Bankers' Club, a dark grey-and-white traditional Chinese-style building where the city's first generation of bankers met.
Gucheng Park has three separate green sections: A, the main part east of Anren Street and north of Fuyou Road, plus B and C south of Renmin Road. Take Metro Line 10 or 14 to Yuyuan Garden station; from Exit 3 it is about a 10-minute walk. Since 1 December 2025 the park has stayed open around the clock, and its former 460-metre wall has been removed.
The Danfeng observation deck sits where the Danfeng Tower once stood as a Taoist temple from 1265 to 1912. This location held the distinction of being Shanghai's highest point for many centuries.
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