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Four Years Contributed to Graceland in Nanjing


NO. 1

Gaochun, First Cittaslow in China


The first time to be here was in February 2017. Then the flourishing Spring Festival just ended and the weather was a little cold. 

Core team of Nanjing Gaochun Graceland traveled to such a peaceful place from the downtown down south for the first time. During the trip, they passed the Mirror of Sky which was a hot place of Nanjing in 2020.


The Mirror of Sky - Shijiu Lake


Gaochun is a city with its features. It has long history, especially in culture. Many celebrities had been here from the founder of Confucianism Confucius, the famous scholar in Spring and Autumn period Wu Zixu to the poetic genius of Tang Dynasty Li Bai.


Gaochun, the Second Hometown of Confucius


Besides strong cultural background, Gaochun also enjoys best natural ecology. It has a gold ecological combination with 30% mountain region, 20% water and 50% land. In Qing Dynasty,  Emperor Qianlong awarded the place as "Jiangnan macca". In 2010, Gaochun was awarded as the first International Cittaslow of China. Since then, the Garden of Nanjing stepped into the sight of the world.


Gaochun, the First Cittaslow of China


To further promote the development of tourism and regional industrial upgrading in Gaochun, Gaochun has accelerated the development of traffic layout in the recent three years.

In December 2017, the S9 Metro between Gaochun District to Nanjing downtown opened. Gaochun entered into the Era of Metro. So far, Nanjing-Xuancheng-Huangshan high-speed railway will be completed soon. Nanjing accelerates to the Era of High-speed Railway.



In Gaochun, there is a national wide well-known old street - Gaochun Old Street.

It has had more than 900 years' history. It is the best preserved ancient architectural complex in Jiangsu Province. It has the name of "No. 1 Old Street of Nanjing". It is also called the Second Confucius Temple of Nanjing by the local people.


No. 1 Old Street of Nanjing - Gaochun Old Street

Slow Life of Gaochun Old Street in the Documentary of CCTV


Gaochun Old Street was formed as Chunxi Wharf with the length of 800 meters and laid horizontally. Here was a bustling place with commercial street. The current layout of Gaochun is constructed around the Old Street.

Here there are brands of featured food, folk products and cultural performance. 


Location of Nanjing Gaochun Graceland 


Yada Gaochun Health Leisure Tourism Park (Nanjing Gaochun Graceland) lies on the side of Gucheng Lake that is on the other side of Gaochun Old Street. It grows up at the downtown and will be created into a high-quality aged-care and wellness Town integrating multiple businesses such as tourism & holiday, culture & leisure, commerce and life, wellness & housing. It will be an example of good life.


Landscape of Nanjing Gaochun Graceland



NO. 2

To Be the Domestic Example of Park Featuring Healthcare & Wellness and Leisure & Tourism


The land of Nanjing Gaochun Graceland has been preserved for long by Gaochun, for it has much affection and expectation.

In the sense, the development and use of the land got much attention of Nanjing District Government.

After several research and investigations, on January 8th 2017, Secretary Mr. Wu Yongqiang (Head of Gaochu District then) visited Yada Beijing headquarters. He had a deep discussion with Chairman of Yada Mr. Jiang Jianning and Chairman of CYTS Mr. Kang Guoming. He invited both sides to join in the industrial layout of Gaochun and create it into the Park benchmark featuring healthcare & wellness and leisure & tourism and the high-end leisure & tourism destination in Yangtze River Delta.


Secretary Mr. Wu Yongqiang Visited Yada Beijing Headquarters in 2017


In February 2017, core team of Nanjing Gaochun Graceland paid the first profound investigation on Gaochun.

In May 2017, Yada Capital and Hongqi Fund of CYTS signed the Agreement on Gaochun Health Leisure Tourism Park Cooperation with Nanjing Gaochun District Government in Nanjing Hanfu Hotel.

On December 10th 2017, the Project Foundation Laying Ceremony was held.

Therefore, the year of 2017 can be called the First Year of Nanjing Gaochun Graceland.


Yada Gaochun Park Agreement Concluded in May 2017

Yada Gaochun Park Construction Started in December 2017


After it successfully developed Wuzhen Yada International Health Ecological Park (Wuzhen Graceland), Yada began Gaochun Park for the purpose that it would be the benchmark with character and leading elements. Yada invited domestically top parterns for the architecture and landscape design, such as GOA, GAD and Greentwon Landscape Design Institute. The original team of Wuzhen Graceland was also assigned for the Project.

The Park covers about 1189 mus with the total investment of 4.2 billion yuan. It is composed of three parts, namely Graceland Commercial Street, scenic area for travel and leisure and the residential zone for healthcare and aged care.


Air View of Nanjing Gaochun Graceland


Graceland Commercial Street lies alongside the north side of main road. It has the total floor area of 38000 m2. It uses the modern new Chinese architectural style. Its pedestrian system separates from the vehicle system. In the sense, it is a real pedestrian commercial street.

The aim of such layout and style is to make the commercial street as the extension and supplement of Gaochun Commercial Street and form a overall travel experience on one hand.

On the other hand, it makes up of the gap of Gaochun high-quality commercial living street and meet the demands of high-end tourists on living.


Commercial Street of Nanjing Gaochun Commercial Street


Besides Graceland Canteen and Foreign Snack Store - Chun Refreshment and Chun Fruit. KFC, the gym and Boutique Life Supermarket, LIIKE-COFFEE and other brands have entered into the Commercial Street. They will be open successively in the first half year of 2021.


Chun Fruit and Chun Refreshments Have Opened in the Commercial Street

KFC Has Entered into Graceland Commercial Street


Nanjing Gulou Kindergarten Gaochun Area has been completed. It locates to the east of Graceland Commercial Street. The Kindergarten is constructed according to Jiangsu Provincial Good-quality Kindergarten Standard. It has three grades and nine classes with the total floor area of 3600m2. It will be open in September 2021.


Completed Nanjing Gulou Kindergarten Gaochun Area


Nanjing Gucheng Bay New Century Resorts in Graceland Commercial Street is a high-end resort with good quality.

The Hotel integrates new Chinese architectural elements, Jiangnan water town environment and Japanese design into one to bring fantastic leisure experience.


New Century Resort Gucheng Bay, Nanjing


Most of guest rooms have the view of water. The Hotel has three featured restaurants, two fitness centers, three conference rooms, one wine bar, one book bar, playground for the children and etc. It could meet the demands for high-end travel.

On January 10th 2021, the Hotel was officially open partially. On January 23rd, it welcomed the first group of guests with full capacity. 


New Century Resort Gucheng Bay, Nanjing



NO. 3

First White Deer Theme High-quality Family Trip Complex


Tourism Zone of Nanjing Gaochun Graceland is named as "Gucheng Bay". Gucheng is the ancient name of Gaochun. It implies the perfect time of Gaochun in two thousand years before.



Gucheng Bay is positioned to meet the demands on quality life from the surrounding high-end residential zone and the rigid demands of high net value group on family holiday. Relying on strong cultural background of Laichu with hundreds of years' history in Gaochun and distinctive geographic advantage, Gucheng Bay will be created with cultural creation, animal shows, performance, night travel and camping. It will also has the first white deer theme family trip complex with good quality in Nanjing urban circle.


Landscape of Gucheng Bay


The name of Gaochun derives from a sentence " locating on a high land (高 in Chinese)and enjoying fortune from three lakes (淳 in Chinese)". Gucheng Bay condenses the distinctive landscape charm into its three-lake layout.


Landscape of Gucheng Bay


Upon entering the Park, you will see the first lake with the name of Misty Rain Lake. The name derives from one of Ancient Gaochun Eight Sights - Gucheng Misty Rain. During the misty rainy days, the lake with ripples looks like a piece of ink painting with the elegance of Jiangnan style.


Misty Rain Lake with Ripples


Through Misty Rain Lake, you will arrive at another core place of Gucheng Bay - Guanxi Plaza. To the west of Gucheng Bay, Guanxi River has run for hundreds of year with bustling business travelers. The North Entrance of Guanxi Plaza has been designed like traditional wharf memorial gate with the implication of Berth at Night Guanxi, another sight of Ancient Gaochun Eight Sights.


Berth at Night Guanxi in Guanxi Plaza


Chun Artist Workshop welcomes you first when you coming to Guanxi Plaza. The Workshop focuses on the intangible cultural heritage of Gaochun and combines parent-child interaction into it. It will be created into a cultural space integrating intangible cultural heritage experience, parent-child interaction and intangible cultural heritage inheritance and innovation. You can experience to make Gaochun's traditional feather fans, maltose and ceramics and create colorful painting works with crab shells and snail shells. 


Chun Artist Workshop in Guanxi Plaza


To the south from the Workshop, you will see the second lake in the scenic area - Spring and Autumn Lake. An ancient-style high Spring and Autumn Pavilion comes into your sight if you look far from the lake. The Pavilion is not only a landmark architecture in the Park, but also the sign of spirit and culture in the scenic area.


Spring and Autumn Pavilion on the side of Spring and Autumn Lake


Alongside Spring and Autumn lake, lies a commercial street with a Floating Market. The commercial street employs the layout of Jiangnan water town with bridge, water and ancient-style buildings. It is full of charms like a painting.


Commercial Street with Floating Market


Behind Spring and Autumn Pavilion, there is a modern building. It is the crab theme restaurant. The Restaurant takes full advantage of crab resource of Gaochun. It will offer distinctive full crab dinner. It will be a popular restaurant with good quality.


Crab Theme Restaurant under Construction


The area from one side of the Restaurant to the rest part of the Park is surrounded by Ziluo Lake. Here will be the core of the scenic area for parent-child travel. According to the plan, there will be animal park, family camping zone and the largest single complex - Ziluo City for parent-child activities.


Ziluo City - the Largest Single Building in Gucheng Bay


Animal Park offers the family travelers deep experience in nature, focusing on two principles - ecology and experience. In the Park, children will see white deer like fairy and have the chance to interact with more than twenty kinds of animals, like raccons and sika deer. The Park is also benefit for the children to gain more knowledge during playing with animals.



On the other side of the animal park, there is a camping site for family trip. The site focuses on ecological education concept. In the site, your children can learn nature science, art and exercise. The site is committed to be a place for wide education and personality cultivation. It is also benefit for the building of close relationship between parent and child. 



Zilou City links the animal park and parent-child holiday camping site. In Ziluo City, you will find a professional theater besides an indoor stadium and classrooms. In the future, the Theater will offer stage dramas for family travelers.


Effective Picture of Ziluo City


White deer is one of auspicious animals in traditional Chinese culture. There is always the legend that white deer appears in Gaochun. Gucheng Bay creates the first White Deer theme family tour complex. White deer image is used to link different sites in the scenic area. Gucheng Bay taps into different cultures in Gaochun and create a destination for family travelers.



Besides historical culture, theme restaurant, animal park and intangible cultural heritage workshop, the Park also offers more options to enrich the travelers' experience. You can have an adventure with the white deer on the boat, or enjoy the fantastic light show in Gucheng Bay with your family, or taste the featured snacks beside the lake, or read books, or have a tea... In a word, your travel here deserves your expectation.



Gucheng Bay will be created into a distinctive family trip holiday destination for high-standard construction, high-quality operation and diversified businesses. In the middle of 2021, Phase I will be open. Then, Gucheng Bay will be one hub for all-for-one tourism in Gaochun, linking Culture Cittaslow, Water Cittaslow and Mountain Cittaslow. That is benefit for the improvement of all-for-one tourism quality in Gaochun. It will be another industrial example.




NO. 4

Life Will Be Better


The place hugged by Graceland commercial street and Gucheng Bay is the residential zone of Gaochun Graceland. In December 2020, over 600 households of Phase I have been successfully delivered. In the past four years, we build a perfect Graceland for Nanjing.


Nanjing Gaochun Graceland



01 Graceland, A Jiangnan-style Garden

In Nanjing, Graceland is the only one community that has been constructed into a Jiangnan-style Garden. Once you step into Graceland, your sight will be filled with floras, plants and winding corridors that look like a fairy world.



Jiangnan aesthetics has been mingled into each detail of the Park, no matter the architecture or the landscape. In the multiple-floor sector, there are a weather corridor with the length of 8000 meters. It makes the road home as a beautiful scenery.



The waterside walking path of 1.2 km long links the scenic area and the residential zone. Residents could walk alongside it to enjoy the landscape and a healthy life.



For those Chinese-style buildings with white walls, black tiles, cornices and rake angles, each detail of them displays unique aesthetics and the pursuit to life of Chinese.



Make the best things into the daily life. Let every day in Graceland be the connection to nature and meeting with good life. "Good landscape can bring good emotion." Although it is simple, it is the original intention to create Graceland into the most beautiful Park without consideration of cost.



02 Make Good Life with High-quality Product


Life needs love, because only love could turn cold architecture into home. To meet diversified demands of the residents on housing, the residential zone is planned with departments from 83-210㎡ with lift and Chinese-style villas from 350-510㎡.


Graceland Department with Lift

Graceland Chinese-style Villa


Graceland integrates care and love to residents into details. Sensor light at the entrance, dropdown storage basket, emergency button, folding door and safety handrails  for the washing room, central air-conditioning system and underfloor heating system...Graceland builds a warm home with high-quality products.



In addition, Graceland does not only create warm homes, but also build a big family full of love. At the beginning of planning and design, the Park has been required to set many space for public activity. Firstly, there is a outdoor swimming pool of about 1000㎡ in the central zone. For the safety of children, there is an independent pool for children beside the big one.



Secondly, there is much space for children, including the playground, the greensward, small parks among buildings and activity rooms. People at different age groups could find a space for the good life.


Activity Classroom

Playground for Children


Thirdly, to offer better service, Graceland set Guest Hall and Graceland Guest Room respectively at the east gate and the commercial street in the north. Residents can use them as the venue to receive friends and relative. They are also the life service center to bring convenience to daily life.



03 House is the Container Life is the Purpose

As saying, Graceland offers a kind of lifestyle. It gathers different values. To enrich the spiritual and cultural life, Graceland organizes a special department for community activity firstly. It starts operation before the delivery of Graceland.



In 2020, Graceland has organized more than 30 community activities for the residents, including life aesthetics course, parent-child education class, healthy life class and lecture & talk salons. During activities, strange neighbor became close friends. Children enjoyed happy time in their childhood at Graceland.



In 2021, Graceland improves its curriculum systematically. It encourages residents to organize first groups of club. These clubs will be the foundation of Graceland culture.



04 Operation and Service Energize the Park

Gaochun Graceland regards high-quality product as the base of good life. Operation and service is regarded as the core and future of the Town. Therefore, in two months before delivery, Graceland Canteen has been completed and come into service. Here offers delicious dishes with organic and fresh material.



In the Lohas Center, there are classrooms for dance, painting, handicrafts and etc. Here will be a place for the spiritual and cultural life. 



Yada Greentown Property Management Company will be in charge of the community service.



Besides the teams for canteen, community activity and property management, the Park also has teams for the scenic area, commercial, and hotel management. All properties will be served by Yada's own team. 




NO. 5

Virtue for Future


Yada spent four years' effort to create Gaochun Graceland that deserved good reputation from the market. Gaochun Graceland is also Yada's deeper exploration and practice for good lifestyle.


Gaochun Graceland


In the past four years, Yada abandoned exaggerated promotion. Instead, Yada worked down-to-earth to make everything good.



Gaochun Graceland



On the background wall of Yada Conference Room, there is a sentence, "make products beloved, make career respected". It is not a slogan. It is the belief of Yada people.


Gaochun Graceland


We are asked the reason why Graceland is successful? We borrow the words of Chairman Mr. Jiang Jianning to reply, " our delivery should exceed our promise to our customers; our supporting facilities and service should exceed the expectation of our customers. We never cheat on workmanship and material, sell second at the best thing's price. We never exaggerate in advertisement to mislead our clients."

Virtue can gain the future. That is the reason why Yada is successful.