Hongze Lake Wetland

With tens of thousands of hectares of wetland, Hongze Lake is rich in biodiversity. It is the habitat of cranes, swans and many other rare and endangered birds. The wetland vegetation is diverse. It is listed as a priority protection area in the national program of China biodiversity conservation action plan, and is a national wetland reserve.

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Hongze Lake Wetland

Sihong Hongze Lake Wetland scenic spot is located in Sihong County, Suqian City, Northern Jiangsu Province, Eastern China. It is backed by the experimental area of 750000 Mu National Nature Reserve and faces the boundless Hongze Lake in the East. It is a national AAAA scenic spot integrating sightseeing, ecological leisure, popular science education, vacation and health preservation.

The scenic area covers an area of 5.2 square kilometers, with more than 30 scenic spots including Wetland Museum, deer garden, love Park, reed labyrinth, Fish Museum, etc.

Development history

Wetland Honors:

1. National 4A scenic spot

2. 2008 top 10 ecological leisure bases in China

3. National leisure fishery demonstration base (2014)

4. National science base of environmental protection (2016)

5. National popular science education base (2012-2016)

6. 2016 China's most beautiful tourist attractions

7. Top 10 holiday destinations in China in 2018

8. China Certification alliance outstanding enterprise in 2018

9. The intelligent tourism integration project of Hongze Lake Wetland scenic spot won the "best cultural and tourism science and technology innovation demonstration Award" of China Qianshan · Jinfeng award in 2019

10. "2012 happy tour of Jiangsu" is the most popular scenic spot for tourists

11. Jiangsu provincial tourist resort (2012)

12. Consumer rights demonstration service station (2013)

13. Jiangsu photography base

14. Famous brand of Jiangsu Service Industry (2012-2015)

15. Jiangsu ecotourism demonstration area (2014)

16. Best slow life rural tourism resort in Yangtze River Delta (2015)

17. Jiangsu land science popularization base (2016)

18. "Lotus Grand View Garden toilet" 2018 tourism toilet with the most cultural taste

19. "Beautiful wetland" won the "five one" project award of Jiangsu Province (September 2019)

20. Top 10 self driving destinations in Jiangsu Province (December 2019)

Transportation guide

External traffic

Aircraft:

Distance from Huai'an Lianshui Airport: 110 km;

Distance from Xuzhou Guanyin International Airport: 130 km;

Distance from Nanjing International Lukou Airport: 240 km;

Distance from baitabu airport of Lianyungang: 180 km.

high-speed rail:

Territory: Suhuai railway has been opened to traffic, Sihong station is about 40 km away from the scenic spot.

Self driving:

1. From Shanghai, Yangzhou, Nanjing, Xuzhou direction: Ning Su Xu Expressway Sihong south exit 245 provincial road wetland Avenue Hongze Lake Wetland Scenic Area

2. From Lianyungang and Huai'an direction: Yan Su Xu Expressway - west exit of Siyang - 245 provincial road - Wetland Avenue - Hongze Lake Wetland scenic spot

Internal transportation

（1） By land:

1. Sightseeing train: tourists can transfer to the next train at each station in the scenic area with tickets.

2. Bicycle: single bicycle, double bicycle, four person bicycle, multi person bicycle.

3. Electric sightseeing bus.

（2） Waterway:

Reed labyrinth Cruise: the reed labyrinth of Hongze Lake Wetland covers a total area of 3000 mu and consists of 60 river branches with a total length of 15 km.

1. Reed labyrinth

The reed labyrinth covers a total area of 3000 mu and consists of 60 branches with a total length of 15 km.

2. Deer Garden

Deer park is a park with deer culture as its theme, which integrates tourism and popular science education. Sika deer, a national first-class protected animal, is mainly kept in the park.

3. Metasequoia forest

The Metasequoia glyptostroboides forest covers an area of 300 mu, with more than 10000 Metasequoia glyptostroboides, Taxodium ascendens and other precious tree species planted. The river course in the forest is winding, a hundred birds sing together, and a hundred mu of Metasequoia glyptostroboides are red and green, which is like a paradise in the world. Metasequoia glyptostroboides, known as "living fossil", has existed on the earth for 100 million years. The earth has undergone thousands of changes. Metasequoia glyptostroboides has been fortunately preserved in China, becoming "China's national treasure" and "living fossil of the plant world". Metasequoia glyptostroboides can absorb sulfur dioxide, reduce acid rain, purify air and protect biodiversity. A large area of Metasequoia glyptostroboides forest has been completely preserved in Sihong County, which has become a rare natural heritage in the world. Because of its special historical status and natural value, Metasequoia glyptostroboides has been selected as the county tree of "Sihong".

4. Love Park

Love park is a combination of Chinese and western marriage culture. The main works include romantic entrance square, European style chapel, Xizi square, green forest, ecological corridor, lotus pond and moonlight, and a series of auxiliary facilities, especially the five connecting bridges. They are Jinhui bridge, Yinfeng bridge, Tongfeng bridge, Mufeng bridge and zhifen bridge. It has become the first choice for young people in Northern Jiangsu to take wedding photos and hold outdoor weddings.

5. Hongze Lake fish Museum

Hongze Lake fish hall covers an area of 20000 square meters, with a construction area of 5888 square meters. It is 99 meters long, 26 meters high and 18 meters wide. The overall shape is like a big carp swimming in the wetland scenic area of Hongze Lake, symbolizing good luck and more than one year.

The exhibition hall consists of fish head and fish body. Fish head is the most advanced ball screen cinema in the park. The dome is 13.6 meters high. The four storey seats can accommodate 36 people to watch at the same time. The seats with six degrees of freedom can swing up and down, left and right, and back and forth. The HD 4D movie panoramic shows the world under the lake.

6. Qianhe Garden

Qianhe garden is a good place to enjoy lotus in Hongze Lake Wetland in summer. It is named Qianhe garden because 1008 kinds of lotus are planted in the garden. With the coming of summer, 1008 kinds of lotus flowers are blooming.

7. Hongze Lake Wetland Museum

Hongze Lake Wetland Museum is a popular science education base in China and the first Wetland Museum in Jiangsu Province. The museum is divided into six exhibition halls, which are ecological home, wetland change, wetland ecology, aquatic animals, terrestrial animals and wetland plants.

Through pictures and words, the ecological home hall introduces the protected objects, location, evolution history, topography, ancient creatures, water resources and ecological functions of wetlands.

Wetland changes mainly through fossil display to introduce some ancient creatures found in the wetland.

Through the simulated ecological space, the wetland ecological Hall shows the ecological scene of the core area of the wetland reserve, in which trees, reeds and lotus are made of special ecological materials, and birds are real specimens.

The aquatic animal hall displays nearly 70 species of freshwater fish specimens from Hongze Lake, which is a good place for children's science education. The main aquatic animals in Hongze Lake wetland are benthos and fish. Among them, there are 61 species of benthos and 68 species of fish.

The terrestrial animal hall displays a large number of terrestrial animal specimens found in the wetland. Hongze Lake Wetland National Nature Reserve in Sihong, Jiangsu Province has excellent conditions, rich wetland ecological types, complex fauna composition and high biodiversity. Among them, 7 species of amphibians, 14 species of reptiles, 16 species of mammals, nearly 1000 species of insects and 194 species of birds are found.

The wetland plant hall displays a variety of plants in the wetland. Hongze Lake is the youngest and most active of the five major freshwater lakes in China. It is rich in wetland resources, and many plants have unique edible value. Since ancient times, there has been the saying of "chicken head, water chestnut, half a year's grain". The "chicken head" here actually refers to the aquatic plant Euryale ferox.

8. Plum Garden

"Great Lake wetland, plum fragrance" plum garden has nearly 20000 plum trees, mainly including gongfenmei, yudiemei, lvmei and Chimonanthus praecox.

9. Peony Garden

The peony garden covers an area of 100 mu and cultivates more than 20000 peonies. It is the most complete variety peony scenic spot in Northern Jiangsu. There are two grass pavilions in the garden, including Luoyang peony with "rich and gorgeous, national color and natural fragrance" and Heze peony with "big flowers and colorful, various varieties".

10. Peony Garden

Peony Garden and peony garden all the way apart, flowering peony. There are nearly ten thousand single and double peony plants in the garden, covering an area of more than 20 mu with complete colors. Paeonia lactiflora ranks the first among herbs, known as "Flower Fairy" and "flower phase", and one of the "six famous flowers", also known as "May Flower God". Since ancient times, Paeonia lactiflora has been regarded as the flower of love. It is the best time to enjoy Paeonia lactiflora in Hongze Lake Wetland from late April to early and middle may every year.

11. Egret Lake

Egret Lake covers an area of more than 1000 mu, which is composed of a thousand mu lotus pond and Egret Island. There are more than 10000 tree species suitable for egret, such as Sapium sebiferum, Platycladus orientalis, willow, etc., planted on Egret Island, becoming an important place for egret and other birds to live in the scenic area.

12. Swan Lake

Swan Lake has a good ecological environment and beautiful scenery. There are more than 30 species of white swan and Black Swan under secondary protection in the lake. Every winter, hundreds of swans come here to overwinter.

13. Aquatic Botanical Garden

The aquatic botanical garden has cultivated 300 kinds of aquatic plants, including 200 kinds of domestic aquatic plants and 200 kinds of foreign aquatic plants

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