Described as the city's largest sponge park that reuses rainwater, a new park in Lin-gang Special Area in Shanghai's Pudong New Area will be open to the public for free this month. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

To raise awareness about the concept of a sponge park to the public, a 30,000-square-meter area within the park has been designed to showcase this process of reusing rainwater.

According to official data, 15,000 cubic meters of rainwater will be purified in the area every day.

Visitors to the park will also get to view local plants as well as foreign ones such as North American crabapple and Japanese evening cherry.