Hankou River Beach

Hankou River Beach

Hankou river beach, located in Jiangan District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, covers an area of 1.6 million square meters. It is adjacent to Yanjiang Avenue, faces Wuchang Yellow Crane Tower Scenic Spot, and matches with the Yangtze River. It forms a unique charming landscape center in the central area of Wuhan, and is a famous scenic spot in Wuhan.

The past life of jiangtan

"Two rivers, four embankments and eight forest belts, fire trees and silver flowers never night", which is a poet's praise of the beautiful scenery of Wuhan river beach. Among the waterscape of three towns in Wuhan, Wuhan beach is the most beautiful scenery in this riverside city. There are twos and threes of citizens or tourists walking leisurely among the green trees and flowers, walking through the cobblestone path, enjoying the rare leisure in the busy life.

With such beautiful scenery, it is hard for people to think that before the completion of the new beach in Hankou, the land was still a dangerous beach which was often affected by floods and directly affected the flood control in Wuhan.

Since the 1970s, 1.84 million square meters of beaches in Wuhan City have been occupied. There are many garbage, debris and illegal buildings. A large number of buildings block water and raise the water level of the Yangtze River. "Squeeze into the water space, and the water will force you into an embarrassing situation." Due to the indifference of flood control consciousness, Wuhan river beach can not play the role of flood prevention for a long time.

The life of jiangtan

In recent years, Wuhan has made great efforts to speed up the pace of urban construction, improve the urban environment and enhance urban functions. Since the beginning of the 21st century, Wuhan city has carried out comprehensive improvement of flood control and environment. In the first phase of the project alone, 58 enterprises and institutions were relocated, and 96000 square meters of various water blocking structures were demolished, which changed the scene of the past. The garbage on the beach was removed, the river channel was dredged, and natural vegetation was cultivated. Once there is a flood, the river water can flow directly from above, and the submerged vegetation can be replanted.

In terms of flood control facilities, five of the original 10 gates from Wuhan passenger port to Yuehan wharf have been closed after renovation, and the elevation of other gates has also been raised from about 28m to 29.2m. In addition, the sealing method of stoplog loess is cancelled, and temporary sealing measures are taken in case of high water level in flood season. In terms of drainage, most of the rainwater is discharged directly into the river by surface runoff.

While removing water blocking structures and garbage and strengthening flood control facilities, they also built three-level hydrophilic platforms according to the water level in different seasons: the first level is 20 meters high, 10 meters wide; the second level is 25 meters high, 30 meters to 50 meters wide; the third level is 28.8 meters high, 10 meters wide. On the one hand, the illegal buildings and water blocking objects on the river beach are removed, so that the river is unblocked and conducive to flood control. On the other hand, the citizens and tourists can enjoy the unique beauty of the riverside city no matter in the dry season or in the flood season.

The newly built Wuhan river beach not only has a large area of three-dimensional green belt, but also provides citizens with public leisure space with riverside characteristics. At the same time, the new river beach has played the three functions of urban landscape environment greening ecology, mass fitness entertainment and hydrophilic leisure activities. Wuhan people have a special love for the Yangtze River, and formed an indissoluble bond with the river. In the past, due to the need of flood fighting, a high waterproof wall blocked the hydrophilic complex of the public. Now, the flood control project construction and the comprehensive improvement of the environment are organically combined, and the appearance of the river beach has taken on a new look, becoming a beautiful "business card" of Wuhan city.

The "atmosphere, delicacy, tranquility, openness and conciseness" of Wuhan river beach forms a pattern of "one axis, two belts and four districts", namely the river beach landscape axis; dike landscape belt, Riverside hydrophilic belt; leisure activity area, central square area, sports area and gardening landscape area. Music fountains, water parks, water ladders and so on all reflect the theme of hydrophilic, so that people can not only feel the magnificent momentum of the Yangtze River, but also appreciate the charm of the Jiangnan bridge water. Wandering on the beach, people fully feel the charm of water. "People oriented, serving the people" is the tenet of Wuhan jiangtan. Here, the famous trees stand upright and the grass is thick. More than 100 varieties such as Ginkgo biloba and Lagerstroemia indica are planted in the beach, nearly 20000 trees and shrubs are planted, and nearly 200000 square meters of lawn is paved, with a greening rate of 70%. In spring, the trees and plants are fresh and the garden is green; in midsummer, the trees are green and the river is breezy; in autumn, the flowers are gorgeous and the maple leaves are beautiful; in winter, the river and the sky are all the same. What an ecological paradise composed of green beach and clear water.

Wuhan jiangtan also has a fitness area with a total area of 120000 square meters, of which the Hankou jiangtan fitness corridor is 80000 square meters, including 14 tennis courts, 1 skating rink, fitness trails, swimming pools and other fitness venues. The 3000 square meter national fitness corridor and the 140 meter long plastic track are even more beautiful scenery. In the morning, it's a good place for people who like to exercise. At dusk, walk on the beach, listen to the surging water of the Yangtze River and Han River, and feel the strong charm of Wuhan.

Wuhan river beach has the reputation of Golden Bund. According to incomplete statistics, since its opening up, Wuhan jiangtan has received more than 10 million Chinese and foreign tourists every year, becoming a famous tourism brand in Wuhan.

Geographically speaking, Wuhan is a city by the water. The Yangtze River and the Han river run through it, dividing the city into two rivers, four banks and three towns.

In terms of time, Wuhan is an ancient city, which has been surging in the modern history of China and attracted the attention of the world.

When the vertical axis of time crosses the horizontal axis of geography, the intersection point is the river beach.

Jiangtan belongs to history, which witnessed the prosperity and desolation of Wuhan;

Jiangtan also belongs to reality and to us. After years of deep sleep, it is waking up again.

Yearning for prosperity

As a name, the Bund originated from the road built by western colonists on the beach of Huangpu River in Shanghai in 1843, which is called the Bund.

People's memories of the Bund are actually rooted in the memory of prosperity. In people's mind, prosperity is one of the important characteristics of the city, especially for the people of Wuhan, prosperity is the proper meaning of the term "big Wuhan".

Walking along the riverside road in Hankou, from jianghanguan to the municipal government office building (former German Consulate), 12 hundred year old buildings with different styles are arranged in a row. The formation of each building will solidify an unchangeable history, and between the buildings, a city space is built, which includes the past and the present, and also indicates the future.

Walking from one intersection to another is like turning page after page of a book. This book is about the most prosperous past of Wuhan in the past years. It is Wuhan, China's second largest industrial and Trade Center after Shanghai in modern history, and Wuhan, one of China's most westernized cities. It is jiangtan that witnesses all this.

Three zones and three zones

The overall pattern of river beach is "three zones and three zones".

Three districts

Sightseeing area, central square area and leisure activity area.

Three belts

Riverside characteristic belt, recreational forest shade belt, dike viewing belt.

Between the Riverside Avenue and the riverside lane is the dike viewing belt, between the lane and the riverside trail is the recreational forest belt, and to the south of the riverside trail is the riverside characteristic belt.

In addition, the horizontal waterfront trail, Linyin trail and the viewing gallery on the embankment run through the whole beach.

Riverside characteristic belt

It is a large waterfront hydrophilic space integrating high platform view, platform view and ladder play. The waterfront trail runs through it, with plum blossom lamps and lotus leaf seats.

Bank revetment

Two kinds of relief for slope protection, narrative relief, are used to show the development history of Wuhan's waterfront city. The relief of fossils and aquatic organisms in the Yangtze River reflects the development of Wuhan from ancient yunmengze and Panlong city to the spring and Autumn period, Han and Tang Dynasties, and to modern prosperity.

You Tian Lin Yin Dai

It has a total length of 1200 meters and a width of 3-8 meters. It is decorated with a series of blue floor tiles, with floor lamps at some intervals, forming a blue ribbon. All kinds of green land covers an area of 100000 square meters, accounting for 70% of the total area of 28.8 square meters, with a green coverage rate of 90%, making Hankou river beach the largest centralized green space in Hankou riverside area.

Dike landscape belt

Focus on the design of the viewing gallery on the embankment to form a landscape belt integrating vertical greening, viewing gallery, leisure service and gentle slope greening landscape.

View gallery on the embankment

A gentle slope type berm is used to connect with the flood control wall, and a wooden footpath is set on the top, on which the street view and river view can be seen. The wooden footpath is partially equipped with leisure tea seats, and the bottom floor is equipped with retail, public health and other service facilities, with a total construction area of 2000 square meters, forming the best place for sightseeing, river viewing and service.

In addition, a gentle slope green landscape belt with a width of 12 meters is arranged between the flood wall and the motorway.

River Beach revival

From a certain point of view, the historical process of Wuhan's urbanization and modernization originated from the river bank, which has also become a symbol of the prosperity and decline of the city.

If you walked along the riverside road a few years ago, you could see nothing except the mottled light and shadow of trees under the street lamps. Now Hankou beach is a place where all kinds of bars and cafes gather.

Dajiangtan made in Wuhan

The revival of jiangtan

Chinese PinYin : Han Kou Jiang Tan