Yantai boasts country's first marine-culture-themed park
Updated : 2015-10-16
(chinadaily.com.cn)
The country's first park themed on coastal city culture opened for a test operation at Penglai county in Yantai of Shandong province on Oct 1, informed an official.
The officer further mentioned that the construction of the park, named Haishi started in 2014 and the park covers an area of 190 mu (12.67 hectares). It has been built with an investment of 53 million yuan ($8.34 million).
Featuring combination of beaches, mirage spectacles and mountains, the park was built with a beach, relief walls having Penglai's mountain and coastal scenery, and carved stones. Haishi also has a sculpture of Su Shi, a great poet and calligrapher during the period of Song Dynasty (960-1279).
Edited by Shahnawaz Akhtar