Revived City｜The Spring of Yixing Yada Town

Beside the Yangxian Lake, Yangxian Xishan Lakeside Park completely awakes in the spring of 2020. The first suburban park in Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, which has been opened at the beginning of last year, seems to be a beautiful gauze of Yangxian Xishan, dancing in the spring. Around the majestic Dongpo Pavilion, Yangxian Xishan occupies the spring beauty. As the tourist distribution center of Yixing Yangxian Ecotourism Resort in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, Yangxian Xishan has increasingly become an important geographical area and cultural highland with beautiful natural ecology and future life scenes in Yixing City.

Yixing Yada Town – Dongpo Pavilion

Yixing Yada Town – Yangxian Xishan Lakeside Park

Beautiful Suburban Lakeside Park beside Dongpo Pavilion

Affected by the epidemic, Yixing has arranged some parks and tourist attractions to resume receiving tourists conditionally since March 12th. Spring breezes, outdoor leisure tents start to appear. The earliest ones are Yixing Longbei Mountain Forest Park and Yangxian Xishan Lakeside Park beside Dongpo Pavilion with flowers and trees.

Lakeside Park is located on the south bank of Yangxian Lake, closely connected to Yangxian Xishan. Looking around from the Park, there are towering mountains as Tianhuang Mountain and Xichuan Ridge, the ocean waves as Yangxian Lake, the smoke of distant villages, the presence of trees and flowers, and the landform of integrated plains and hills. As the planning and construction of the Park, in addition to meeting the needs of being close to mountains & rivers and leisure & sightseeing, it also plans to have multiple functional plates such as ecological conservation, sunny grassland, woodland leisure, lakeside leisure, and tourism service facilities. The Park also has bicycle loops, lakeside trails, and hiking trails, achieving multiple parallelism. From the perspective of plant configuration, the Park integrates natural landscape such as sparse grassland, flower slopes, mirrors, single & compound waterfronts, and dense woodland areas. The rolling grassland has the feeling of spring.

Judging from the functional attributes of Lakeside Park, it is not only a suburban landscape park, but also a composite connecting corridor between various scenic spots among mountain area at the south of Yixing. It extends and undertakes tourism service function and crowd activities, therefore enhances the value of surrounding scenic spots and exclusive quality of Yixing eco-tourism, as well as helps catalyze the resource integration and rapid development of Yixing Yangxian National Tourism Resort to become a real "Management of Mountains and Rivers" construction behavior.

Lakeside Park has no walls, no access control, and is free for tourists. Till now, there are approximately 5,000 parking spaces in the park and surrounding areas. Visitors could not only take a leisure tour in the park, but also have farming experience in spring in Yada Agricultural Park, and travel within the spring.

Yada Yangxian Xishan, a Cultural Landmark in Yixing Mountain

The "Lake Father" in Yixing Mountain is one of the important sources of Taihu Lake. It is surrounded by green water, bamboo and wind. Forest coverage rate reaches 82% with abundant negative oxygen ions. Yangxian Xishan is a good place among the mountains and rivers. At present, with the resumption of construction sites in Yixing City, about 20,000 builders have appeared on various project sites in Yixing. At Yada Town, Yangxian Xishan covers an area of about 6,000 mu, with a total investment of about 8 billion yuan. The Yada Theater, Yada Sports & Fitness Center, Yada Hospital and other projects in Yangxian Xishan are being pushed forward smoothly, and the construction sites are in full swing. Mr. Zhu Haoyi, General Manager of Yixing Yada Real Estate Company, introduced that the Yada Theater, could accommodate more than 500 people and is equipped with professional stage & performance equipment. In the future, high-quality concerts and theater performances will be held in succession.

Yixing Yada Town – In the Corner of Yada Life Bookstore

Dumpling with kalimeris and wonton with saury, famous writer Mr. Yang Kui has tasted the typical foods of Jiangnan spring in the first place. On February 28th, he left from the empty Beijing South Railway Station to Jiangnan area and went straight to Yixing Yangxian Xishan. As the founder of Yada Academy and Yada Life Bookstore, Mr. Yang Kui deeply fell in love with Yixing. Since last year, well-known writers Mr. Ge Fei, Mr. Ye Zhaoyan and well-known economist Mr. Qiu Xiaohua have been guests of Yangxian Xishan and gave talks respectively. Yada Town has become an urban cultural saloon in Yixing.

In Yangxian Xishan, 400 mu tea garden and 350 mu integrated farm are expected to become a "pastoral complex" integrating modern agriculture, ecological agriculture, and sightseeing agriculture. In this spring, if you go to Yangxian Xishan to learn about the cultivation, management and production of small tomatoes, lilies and spring tea, you will surely reap rich feelings. In the warm fruit and vegetable greenhouses in Yangxian Xishan, Mr. Yang Jie, Yixing famous farmer who graduated from Nanjing Agricultural University and once won the "National Outstanding Rural Practical Talents", is able to describe the vivid future scene of agricultural civilization to tourists.

Food is the deepest homesickness. No matter how many places you have been to and how many delicacies you have eaten, the most difficult thing to pick up is the flavor of hometown. The town canteen of Yangxian Xishan is quietly located at the foot of the mountain, hidden in the green bamboo forest, with white walls and tiles, gently laid out, blending with the mountains and rivers here in a peaceful manner, showing a kind of beauty in the world.

At the lakeside, Yada Yangxian Xishan has now been the town center of the "Lake Father", a tea-traveling town. Mr. Liu Naifa, General Manager of Yixing Yada Health and Ecological Industrial Park, introduced that Yangxian Xishan combines natural environment, art & culture, commercial facilities, fitness & medical care, agricultural production, and aged-care & living. It creates a brand new landscape and lifestyle between the beautiful Yangxian landscape. The healthy living area adjacent to the beautiful tea garden has integrated residential products such as Chinese courtyard houses and elevator houses.

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