Lianhuashan Park, Mountain park in Futian District, Shenzhen, China
Lianhuashan Park is a hill and urban park in Futian, Shenzhen, with a main peak of 106 metres. It covers about 150 hectares and includes a hilltop plaza with a 6-metre bronze statue of Deng Xiaoping, a kite lawn at the foot of the hill, and a wedding-corner palm grove near the south gate.
Lianhuashan Park was planned from 1992 and opened in June 1997, just before Hong Kong's return to China. Its southeast area had held the Lianhuashan resettlement zone, with over a hundred one- to four-storey temporary buildings housing about 10,000 people between 1993 and 2000. The northwest corner near Lianhua and Xinzhou roads was a plant nursery. A tomb built in 1248 for Huang Motang stands on the northwest slope.
The hill had four local names before the 1930s: Gangxia villagers called it Huaguoshan, Shangmeilin called it Lianhualiang, Xiameilin called it Jiujianglong, and people from Shenzhen town to Shatou called it Daheling. The name Lianhuashan already appears on Japanese military maps of the 1930s. At the south gate, parents of unmarried adults post matchmaking notices in the palm grove, a practice formalized by the park management center in 2011.
The main peak rises 106 metres; the summit platform with the Deng Xiaoping statue is reached on footpaths from the park entrances. The park lies at the northern end of the Futian central business district, within walking distance of Children's Palace Station on the Shenzhen Metro. The kite lawn at the foot of the hill connects to the central district cultural plaza by a pedestrian bridge over Hongli Road. Entry is free.
The hilltop statue of Deng Xiaoping, 6 metres tall and weighing six tons, was sculpted by Teng Wenjing after a 1995 decision; it was kept in a warehouse amid controversy before being unveiled in November 2000. Deng is shown walking briskly, referring to his words that "The step of reform and opening-up should be bigger." Nearby stands a 4-metre-high banyan planted by Xi Jinping on 8 December 2012, now about 12 metres tall with a trunk over 50 cm in diameter.
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