Jinyang Lake

Jinyang Lake

Jinyang Lake, located in Jinsheng Town, the southern end of Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, is a power plant reservoir artificially excavated in the early days of the founding of the people's Republic of China. The water area of the lake is 5.1 square kilometers, with a water storage capacity of 24 million cubic meters. It is the largest artificial lake in North China, known as "China North Lake", with an annual water production of 236 tons.

Jinyang Lake is adjacent to Jinci double track road in the East, the largest thermal power plant in Taiyuan in Shanxi Province in the west, the long history of ancient Jinyang city and the famous Jinci tourist resort in the south.

The name of "Jinyang Lake" has a long history. According to legend, Taiyuan area in ancient times was a vast expanse of water, called Jinyang Lake.

The origin of the name

Dayu wanted to develop it and let people live in this fertile land, but he didn't know how to get the water back, so he thought hard and couldn't eat. One night, the storm was raging and the waves were rough on Jinyang Lake. However, a small boat rose and fell in the wind and waves. Yu approached the big boat. It turned out that an old woman was catching fish. Yu asked the woman to get on the boat to avoid the wind and waves, and offered a glass of wine very respectfully. Without saying a word, the old woman stretched out her finger and popped a gap in the glass. The wine flowed completely and the old woman disappeared. Yu was so surprised that he suddenly woke up. After investigation, he dug a hole in Lingshi County and let the water flow back to the river channel, thus forming today's Taiyuan Basin. So he left the old saying "open lingshikou, empty Jinyang Lake".

Introduction to the park

Jinyang Lake Park is located 10 kilometers away from the old city of Taiyuan, with a water surface area of 4.8 square kilometers, an average water depth of 5 meters, and a water storage capacity of 24 million cubic meters. It is the largest artificial lake in North China, and its area is slightly smaller than that of Hangzhou West Lake. Jinyang Lake Park is located between nine villages and one factory (Wujiabao, Beifu, Nanfu, Chengbei, Dongru, Xizhai, jiajiazhuang, Jinsheng, Jizhen, and the first factory is Taiyuan No.1 Thermal Power Plant). It has xinjinci road in the East, taifen road in the west, Fengyu Valley in the South and Taiyuan No.1 thermal power plant in the north Yeyu river. At the same time, it is also the starting point of Jinci, Tianlongshan scenic spot, romance city of the Three Kingdoms, Shentanggou hot spring and Mengshan Giant Buddha tourism hotline. The development and construction of Jinyang Lake Park will drive the development of the surrounding area of Jinyang Lake, improve the overall urban quality, improve the eco-tourism level of Taiyuan City, improve the urban ecological environment, enrich the amateur life of citizens, and play a positive role in promoting the application of national garden city and the construction of ecological garden city of Taiyuan city. The park is planned to be a green belt around the lake, a water park, a fishing area, a cultural and entertainment area, a plant park, a resort, a camping area, a hunting ground, and a life service area. The construction period is from 1996 to 1998. The first phase of the project is to fill the dykes and dams along the lake, plant trees, build roads along the lake, and equip yachts, fishing and other recreational facilities. After completion, the park will become the largest lake park in the whole province and even in North China. Around the lake are villages such as Chengbei, Jizhen, Jinsheng, Dongru, Wujiazhuang, Beifu, Nanfu, and factories such as Taiyuan Chemical Fertilizer Plant and Taiyuan No.1 Thermal Power Plant. There are two highways, Jinci Road double line and taifen Road, running through the north and south.

Development history

In order to make full use of water resources, Taiyuan No.1 Thermal power plant began to put fry of silver carp, grass, crucian carp and common carp into the lake in 1957, with an annual output of about 40000 kg. In 1971, Jinyang Lake was officially established as an aquaculture farm in Taiyuan City, and then tilapia and rainbow trout were introduced from other places by taking advantage of the circulating water from Taiyuan No.1 Thermal Power Plant to discharge hot water.

In 1958, Taiyuan aquaculture farm was established, relying on the lake to carry out aquaculture, and gradually became the largest famous, special and excellent commercial fish breeding base and a series of high-quality fish fry training base in Shanxi Province. The output of aquatic products once reached 2 million kg. However, in recent years, the fish fry investment of Taiyuan aquaculture farm has increased from 100000 yuan to 200000 yuan, but the fish production has been declining year by year, gradually reducing to the present 200000 kg and 300000 kg, with the production decreasing by 90%. The root cause of this phenomenon is cage fishing, disorderly cage farming, and nearby villagers stealing fish, which seriously damaged the lake farming.

The water of Jinyang Lake is introduced from the west main canal of Fenhe River. The water quality is good. The average depth is 4 meters, and the deepest is 8 meters. It is 3 kilometers away from the urban area, and the lake area is 4.8 square kilometers. The highest water temperature is 33 ℃ in summer and 8-15 ℃ in winter. Jinyang Lake is located in the north of Jinyang ancient city ruins and the east of Jinsheng town government in Jinyuan District. Taiyuan municipal government has decided to build Jinyang Lake Park, covering an area of 11.2 square kilometers.

Main attractions

The park is planned to be a green belt around the lake, a water park, a fishing area, a cultural and entertainment area, a plant park, a resort, a camping area, a hunting ground, and a life service area. The construction period is from 1996 to 1998. The first phase of the project is to fill the dykes and dams along the lake, plant trees, build roads along the lake, and equip yachts, fishing and other recreational facilities. After completion, the park will become the largest lake park in the whole province and even in North China. Around the lake are villages such as Jinsheng, Dongru, Chengbei, Jizhen, Wujiazhuang, Beifu, Nanfu, and factories such as Taiyuan Chemical Fertilizer Plant and Taiyuan No.1 Thermal Power Plant. There are two highways, Jinci Road double line and taifen Road, running through the north and south respectively.

Jinyang Lake, with a water area of 5.1 square kilometers and a water storage capacity of 24 million cubic meters, is the largest artificial lake in North China, known as "North Lake of China", which is slightly smaller than Hangzhou West Lake and larger than Kunming Lake in Beijing and Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing. The lake is rich in silver carp, carp, tilapia and other fish, with an annual output of 236 tons.

The surrounding area of Jinyang Lake has vast land, convenient transportation, microwave rippling on the surface of the lake, willow shade on the bank, water entertainment, yacht, motorboat, fishing, swimming and other facilities, and numerous catering and accommodation services. It is an ideal tourist resort. With the development of small town economy, Jinyang Lake area has planned nine districts and one Park (i.e. water entertainment area, swimming area, fishing area, central service area, green food processing area, sightseeing agriculture area, sightseeing aquaculture area, villa area, sightseeing horticulture area and Lotus Garden) for domestic and foreign merchants to choose and develop.

geographical environment

Jinyang Lake covers an area of 5.1 square kilometers, 2.5 kilometers long from north to south, 2 kilometers wide from east to west, 9 kilometers long around the lake, in the shape of an ellipse, and another corner protrudes in the west of the lake, like a teapot mouth. The dike of Jinyang Lake is low in the West and high in the East, with an average height of 4-8 meters. The width of the bottom is narrow in the top, and the width of the dam crest is about 5 meters. The water source of Jinyang Lake comes from Fenhe River, with an average depth of 3 meters and the deepest depth of 7 meters, with a total storage capacity of 24 million cubic meters.

Traffic information

Jinyang Lake is close to the old and new Jinci road. There are 848, 804, 856, 905, 311 buses passing through the new Jinci Road, and 5, 839, 858, 308 buses passing through the old Jinci road. You can get off at Jinsheng village and get to Jinyang Lake directly. The traffic is convenient.

Address: Dongru village, Jinsheng Town, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City

Longitude: 112.51802

Latitude: 37.759496

Chinese PinYin : Jin Yang Hu