Nansha builds a 39.5-km ecological corridor

Guangzhou’s Nansha district plans to build a 39.5-kilometer ecological corridor, passing through landscapes such as mountains, rivers, towns, farmlands and seas.

The design sketch of the ecological corridor. [Photo/gznsnews.com.cn]

It will combine urban functions to create a landscape with purple, red, yellow and green colors.

More than 4.8 billion yuan ($702.56 million) will be invested in the section from the Binhaijuncheng（a residential area）at Huanshi Avenue West to Zhujiang East Road, involving a road length of about 6,600 meters, a greening and upgrading area of about 79,200 square meters, and a landscape node reconstruction area of about 1,000 sq m.

The construction area of the other five sections is 60,650 sqm, involving a 14,100-mroad, a greening renovation project area of about 50,000 sq m, and a landscape node transformation area of about 2,000 sq m.

The total investment of the project is 5.79 million yuan and it will cover the facilities and landscaping.

With the grouping, block and line layout pattern, the combination of arbor, shrub and ground cover plants, it will form an ecological belt with a kind of layered and rhythmic beauty, and a characteristic landscape corridor.

In addition, travel times by car and people’s psychological and visual requirements in landscape transformation and the goal of creating a green landscape that conforms to the laws and effects of human visual perception will be taken into consideration in planning.