Soong Ching Ling Cemetery Park
The main entrance is located in Songyuan Road, Changning District, Shanghai. Built in 1984 and 1, formerly known as Shanghai Wanguo Cemetery. The cemetery consists of four parts: memorial facilities centered on Soong Ching Ling's tomb, children's activity area, world cemetery celebrity tomb and world cemetery foreigner cemetery. At the eastern end of the main road, there is a monument to Soong Ching Ling. Deng Xiaoping's inscription "Comrade Soong Ching Ling, a Great Warrior of Patriotism, Democracy, Internationalism and Producerism" was engraved on the front, and Zhang Xiaoming, a member of China Calligraphers Association, wrote it on the back.
The Children's Museum is located in the southeast of Soong Ching Ling Cemetery. It consists of a comprehensive building, a space museum, a navigation hall and a screen movie hall. On both sides of the cemetery, there are foreign cemeteries and celebrity cemeteries of the World Cemetery.
There are thousands of square meters of lawns in the park, including Podocarpus over 300 years old, Osmanthus fragrans over 150 years old, Magnolia grandiflora over 100 years old, and hundreds of Gao Bai, Cedar, Cupressus Zhongshan and 1000 camphor trees with DBH of 25 cm. All year round, the trees are lush and fragrant. Soong Ching Ling Mausoleum has a solemn atmosphere, beautiful and natural environment, harmonious and beautiful architecture, and flowers bloom all year round. It is not only a tourist attraction integrating commemoration and sightseeing, but also an important place for patriotism, proletarian education and building socialist spiritual civilization.
Shanghai zoo
Located at No.2381Hongqiao Road, Changning District, Shanghai, adjacent to Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport. Founded in 1954, formerly known as Xijiao Park. Shanghai Zoo is a large national zoo, covering an area of 743,000 square meters, exhibiting more than 400 kinds of animals, with a building area of 47,237 square meters. It is one of the top ten zoos in China and the second largest city zoo in China.
Shanghai Zoo covers an area of about 74 hectares and exhibits more than 400 kinds of rare wild animals and more than 6,000 animals (heads). Among them, there are world-famous giant pandas known as "national treasures" and "living fossils", rare wild animals such as golden monkeys, South China tigers and alligators, and representative animals from all over the world such as gorillas, African lions, giraffes, kangaroos and tapirs in South America. There are nearly 600 kinds of trees and more than 654.38 million plants in the park, especially the fresh and open lawn of 654.38 million square meters, which basically maintains the topography of the golf course 50 years ago. Every greening and beautification in the park is combined with the ecological environment of animals. In particular, Swan Lake, surrounded by reeds inside and outside the lake area, flocks of pelicans and geese often soar in the blue sky with graceful and vigorous posture. In recent years, with the goal of building an urban eco-zoo, Shanghai Zoo has gradually transformed and built a visually barrier-free eco-animal exhibition area, making visitors feel as if they are in nature and enjoy the beauty of wild fun.