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The Orange Island is surrounded by the Xiang River, covered by the aged trees. If you stand somewhere far away, it absolutely looks like a green navel vessel, sailing in the center of Changsha and ready to defend the old town. It connects the Yuelu Mountain in the west with the downtown in the east, with a N-S length of 5km, a E-W width of 50-200m, a total area of 70hm2 . The island is a famous in-river land in China, also the world’s longest inland river island. Since the island’s product, the orange, was well-known, it was named Orange Island. Its beauty and historical accumulation have been recorded in the ancient time, in the Song Dynasty here is one of the Eight Views of Hunan – the Snow-covered Island in the River. The island has been a popular site for summer vacation for a long time as “there is no hot weather even in May and June.” In Mao Zedong’s youth he spent a lot of time walking on the beach, swimming and sunbathing. Now the Orange Island is a park, where the great majority of the residents, the orange trees, offer the tourists with their sweet fruit in every harvest season. In the park there is a grand white marble monument, on which there are two seal cuttings: four Chinese characters “Orange Island” and a classical Chinese poem QinYuanChun . Changsha , they are both Mao Zedong’s works. At the both sides of the island middle part there are swimming beaches and the N-S street is convenient. Changsha Government is going to improve this place to be a more attractive sightseeing destination, which will integrate gardening, traveling, entertainment, sports, culture and commerce. In the plan, the area will be divided into Two Corridors and Seven Garden: Hunan Culture Corridor, On-water Amusement Corridor, Orange Garden, Garden of the Nature, Park of Harmonious Guests, Plaza of Shopping and Foods, GYM Center, Relaxation Resort and Wildlife Park. The proposed investment will be 2 billion Yuan. |
