Li Gongdi

Li Gongdi

Ligong dike is the only long dike in Jinji Lake of Suzhou City, with a total length of 1400 meters. It was built by Li chaoqiong, the magistrate of Yuanhe county during the reign of Guangxu. Li Gongdi is elegant and exquisite as a whole. The grand scene of merchants gathering at that time can still be seen from the ancient inscriptions on it. The landscape project around Jinji Lake, where ligongdi is located, is designed by one of the world's leading landscape design and regional planning consultants, Pan Asia e-way company of the United States. Now it has become a successful model of mixed hydrophilic community in China, forming a huge scale of open modern urban ecological park.

Brief introduction to Li Gongdi

Ligongdi is located in the JinJiHu Business District of Suzhou Industrial Park

It is 1.4 km long and is the only long dike in Jinji Lake in Suzhou. Ligongdi was built by Li chaoqiong, the magistrate of Yuanhe County, from 1890 to 1891. Its construction greatly facilitated the transportation between Yuanhe county and the eastern area of Jinji Lake. As a result, Xietang gradually flourished and even became a market town.

The current ligongdi street was opened in December 2006. It is positioned as an international style commercial water street integrating high-end catering, entertainment, sightseeing, leisure and culture. It has gathered well-known brand merchants from Denmark, Italy, Germany, Japan, Belgium and Hong Kong, China. The total construction area of phase I to phase IV of ligongdi is 258000 square meters, of which the architectural style of phase I retains the traditional Suzhou residential form, and gathers international and domestic famous brands and well-known catering businesses including Chinese time-honored brands; phase II focuses on theme bar, music restaurant, coffee bar and special catering, including ligongdi 191, the first fashionable leisure and entertainment block in Suzhou 2 bar block; phase 3 will be lifestyle street The concept of "mall" was introduced into Suzhou for the first time. An exotic commercial pedestrian street connected with various theme Islands (districts) has attracted traditional cultural businesses such as Yao Jianping embroidery Museum, Cai Yundi stone carving Museum and Zhang Xinjia Art Museum, foreign cultural businesses such as Harley Motorcycle Club, creative cultural businesses such as Basai Art Center and foundation Museum, and is actively developing along with the fourth phase under construction Build a new benchmark for the brand business carrier of the combination of national influential culture, commerce and tourism industries.

Through "bridge dike culture" and "Lakeside Park", ligongdi combines the water and green of Jinji Lake with the culture of Suzhou, and organically combines Jinji Lake with modern diversified customs, history and reality, leisure tourism and commerce. It has become one of the most popular, commercial and successful areas in Suzhou. In December 2009, ligongdi stood out from more than 20 municipal characteristic commercial streets in Suzhou, and was rated as "commercial street with Chinese characteristics" by China Pedestrian Commercial Street Working Committee, becoming the first "national brand" characteristic commercial street in Suzhou. In 2010, ligongdi was rated as "the top ten most beautiful night spots in Suzhou". In December of the same year, as one of the main scenic spots and functional areas of Jinji Lake 4A scenic spot, ligongdi passed the acceptance of the National Tourism Administration. In April 2011, Li Gongdi was awarded "the most innovative commercial real estate project in China".

(the following text is from the pavilion in Li Gongdi)

Brief introduction to Li Gongdi

Li Gongdi was built by Li chaoqiong in 1889.

Li chaoqiong (1817-1909), a native of Hejiang, Sichuan Province, was the magistrate of Yuanhe County for two years. At that time, the water of Jinji Lake was vast and dangerous. Fishermen went back and forth, and every time they did something unexpected, Li Gong sympathized with it. He spent 14500 liang of silver to build a dike to kill the water. The dike is about five li long, with thousands of willows. After that, the wind was sheltered and the water was stagnant. There was no danger in the way, so it was easy to travel. The people sing praises to their ears and call it ligongdi.

There are Memorial pavilions at both ends of the levee, with the monument of "Ligong levee" erected inside. As time goes by, the pavilion has collapsed and the inscription is still there. In the prosperous age of Kaiming Dynasty, the levee was rebuilt, and a pavilion was built. The original stele was placed in it. In order to record the history and honor the virtue of Duke Li.

June 2007

historical background

In Suzhou, there is no street like ligongdi that integrates unique scenery with historical and modern commercial elements so skillfully.

On December 23, 2009, a gold lettered signboard issued by the working committee of China's Pedestrian Commercial Street was hung with ligongdi, making it the first "commercial street with Chinese characteristics" in Suzhou.

Ligong dike is the only long dike in Jinji Lake of Suzhou, the largest inner city lake in China, with a total length of 1400 meters. It was built by Li chaoqiong, the magistrate of Yuanhe county during the reign of Guangxu. Li Gongdi is elegant and exquisite as a whole. The grand scene of merchants gathering at that time can still be seen from the ancient inscriptions on it.

Modern development

The landscape project around Jinji Lake, where ligongdi is located, is designed by one of the world's leading landscape design and regional planning consultants, Pan Asia e-way company of the United States. Now it has become a successful model of mixed hydrophilic community in China, forming a huge scale of open modern urban ecological park.

The business district where ligongdi is located is the core area of Suzhou CBD under construction. There are central financial business centers and high star hotels such as Xinsu international five star hotel, Jinji Lake Hotel, Ni Sheng Wan Li International Hotel, Zhong Yin crown Resort Hotel and so on. There are many mature commercial projects such as the left bank commercial street, lakeside Xintiandi, and nearly 400 thousand square meters in planning and construction, including the first SHOPPING in Suzhou. In addition, there are also the most complete international golf course and dozens of large-scale noble communities in East China. Ligongdi has convenient transportation, many urban bus lines converge, Shanghai Nanjing Expressway, Suzhou Jiahang Expressway and airport can be quickly and conveniently accessible.

Ligongdi international style water street is divided into dynamic and static areas. The former is dominated by theme bars, music restaurants, coffee bars, disco and special catering. This area will become a dynamic area on the South Bank of Jinji Lake in Suzhou. The latter integrates high-end catering, spa life hall, business club and leisure hotel, mainly for business people and VIP.

Ligongdi is now developed in four phases.

The first phase of ligongdi, an international style commercial water street integrating high-end catering, entertainment, sightseeing, leisure and culture, gathers well-known brand merchants from Denmark, Italy, Germany, Japan, Belgium and Hong Kong, China. On December 23, 2006, the first phase of ligongdi huacaikai street has become the most brilliant modern urban commercial feature of Suzhou.

In the second phase of ligongdi, European style buildings and neoclassical pavilions and bridges are skillfully combined to create an atmosphere of Suzhou's modern paradise. Cooperate with "Nanjing 1912" to build ligongdi 1912 bar block, gather many international and domestic famous slow bar, dibar, pure drink bar and other kinds of bars, bring new opportunities for the park's nightlife, and build Suzhou's chief leisure bar entertainment dynamic zone.

Ligongdi phase III: a commercial pedestrian street with European style connects all the business forms of the project to form a multi-functional and characteristic commercial street combination. It brings the concept of Street Mall into Suzhou for the first time, and makes use of the superior location to provide leisure, entertainment and shopping services with unique style buildings.

Ligongdi phase IV: it is the last area to be developed among the eight major landscapes around Jinji Lake. It is an out of print commercial territory integrating retail, catering, leisure, entertainment and so on. It strives to build a new business district of Jinji Lake in Hunan.

Traffic information

Take bus No. 100, 142 and Jinji Lake to the ligongdi station

Take bus No. 100, 118, 126, 141, 142, 146, 168, 178, 18, 207, 218, 27, 518 and 52 to ligongdi south station. This site is on Jinjihu Avenue, which is the south entrance of Ligong dike.

There are also nearby sites:

Garden of wind: Jinji Lake

Xinggang Street: No.138

Xindu Square: No. 100, 142, 146, 178, 207, 28, 307. Get off and walk east at a junction

Address: No.66, ligongdi, Suzhou

Longitude: 120.68849945068

Latitude: 31.302474975586

Tel: 0512-67250588

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