Lotus is the theme flower of Honghu Park. Aquatic flowers, such as lotus and water lily, are widely planted in secondary and tertiary lakes, with an area of 100 mu and varieties of 100. It is a large-scale and diverse lotus landscape planting base in South China. Since 1988, the lotus exhibition has been held every year, and the number of tourists visiting the lotus landscape has increased year by year, which has played a positive role in promoting the lotus culture and promoting the construction of socialist spiritual civilization. Since 1996, it has also organized and dispatched professional and technical personnel to provide excellent varieties and help guide horticultural units in Hong Kong and Macao to plant lotus flowers respectively, thus enhancing the cultural exchange of lotus flowers in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Macao. In June, 20001year, the park also opened the only lotus tablet gallery with the theme of lotus poetry in China. The length of the stele gallery is 100 meter, and there are 85 calligraphy works. Zhao Puchu, Qi Gong, Shen Peng, Wang Ziwu and Tong Wei, famous calligraphers in China, presented exquisite works for the stele gallery. The completion and opening of the Lotus Monument Gallery is a new cultural landscape and learning garden in Shenzhen, and it is also a good place for citizens and tourists to enjoy, sing, read and view the lotus. The park was rated as an advanced unit of urban landscaping, an advanced unit of urban safe and civilized communities, and a garden-style and garden-style standard unit.
Since 1995, to celebrate the establishment of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone 15 anniversary and Hong Kong's return to the motherland, the park has successfully held the 9th National Lotus Exhibition, Dutch Tulip Exhibition, large-scale art lantern festival and large-scale fireworks show, which has had a good impact on the society.
The park has built and opened a youth training center, a fitness center, a ballroom for everyone, a children's playground, a swimming pool, a barbecue field and a unique foot fitness area paved with yuhua stone, which has provided good services for the general public and tourists. With the improvement of the park environment and the increase of recreational services, the number of tourists entering the park for leisure and entertainment is increasing, with an average of 8,000 people per day and more than 30,000 people on holidays.
Honghu Park is stepping up the implementation of the second-phase master plan, deepening the activities of creating star-rated parks, and striving to build the park into a garden unit with beautiful environment, civilized order and standardized management.