Summer Palace

Summer Palace, an imperial garden during the Qing Dynasty of China, formerly known as Qingyiyuan, is located in the western suburbs of Beijing. The palace is 15 kilometers away from the city, covering an area of 3.009 square kilometers (of which the Summer Palace World Cultural Heritage Area covers an area of 2.97 square kilometers), with about three-quarters of the water surface. The summer palace is adjacent to Yuanmingyuan. It is a large-scale landscape garden built with Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain as the base, Hangzhou West Lake as the model, and the design techniques of Jiangnan gardens. It is also the most well-preserved imperial palace, known as the “Imperial Garden Museum".

Xiangshan Park

Xiangshan Park is located at No. 40 Maimai Street, Haidian District, Beijing, in the northwest suburbs of Beijing. Covering an area of 188 hectares, it is an imperial garden with mountains and forests. The main peak in the scenic area, Xianglu Peak, has an altitude of 575 meters. As early as the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, a palace was built in Xiangshan, and every summer and autumn, the emperor would come here to hunt.

Xishan National Forest Park

Beijing Xishan National Forest Park is located in Xiaoxishan, a western suburb of Beijing. Relying on a natural ridge in the west, the park starts from Badachu Park in the south to Xiangshan Park in the north, with Xiangshan South Road and Fifth Ring Road in the east. Straddling the three districts of Haidian, Shijingshan, and Mentougou, with a total area of 5,970 hectares, the park is 300 meters to 400 meters above sea level. The forests are mostly summer green broad-leaved trees and the forest coverage rate is 98.5%. The main scenic spots are the Baiwangshan Scenic Area and Changhua Scenic Area.

Translator: BAO Minmin

Reviewer: YUAN Ting