06-01-09 14:34 in Jobs, Expat Hunting, Employment Search 
Mengqingyuan Park, covers 8.6 hectare, and is the third phase of a Suzhou Creek renovation project involving a green zone construction in 2004 and the Suzhou Creek Exhibition Center in 2005.
The park, at No. 66 Yichang Road in the middle of the creek, is equipped with models of the technology and equipment used in the creek and a hydrophilic bank showing the renovation of Suzhou Creek.
The nation's first rainwater reservoir is under the park collecting rain that would otherwise flow into the creek.
Under the third-phase work, the authorities have updated the three-story Suzhou Creek Exhibition Center with many new exhibits and hightech displays showing the 5,000 year history of the creek, the life of residents whom lived along the banks of the creek and the various species of fish that used to live in the waterway.
The center is a building with its own history. It is the site of the former Shanghai Brewery which was built in 1912 and is a heritage building.
Experts from the Shanghai Science and Technology Commission, one of the park's builders, said the main purpose of the park is to promote education on environmental protection and arouse the awareness of the public, especially young people.
New technologies like decontamination of base dirt in the creek, pollutant treatment and water quality repair are under discussion and will be introduced, the experts said.
The 125-kilometer creek was once an ideal place for fishing, but rapid development lead to massive pollution during the 1970s. Local government set up a headquarters for the creek renovation in 1996. Since 1998, about 14 billion yuan (US$2.04 billion) has been invested in 23 renovation programs, which have improved the basic quality of the Creek.
Source: Shanghai Daily
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