By Yuling Chen, EDITOR
Walking out from a railway station in Southwest China's Chongqing, you will see a sea of golden-yellow rape flowers. It is a part of the to-be-built China-Singapore new town.
Walking out from a Chongqing railway station, you will see a sea of golden-yellow rape flowers. (Photo by Yang Ye)
20,000 to 30,000 visitors everyday
The location is Fusheng High-speed Railway Station, Yufu Industrial Development Zone in Liangjiang New Area. This extensive field enjoys the closest distance to the downtown and a railway station.
On March 10, the rape flowers in the vast field have already been in full bloom. From far away, it seems like a sea of golden-yellow. Walking out from the railway station, the visitors will see the picturesque scenery.
The staff of Yufu Industrial Park Construction and Investment Co., Ltd. introduced the initiative. Since the flowers came out, the site has received 20,000 to 30,000 every day -and more people on the weekends.
The attractive sea of flowers near a railway station in Chongqing, China (Photo by Yang Ye)
A China-Singapore international new town
Zhou Daxuan is the Deputy General Manager of this company. He said that in the future, this site would focus on the two highlights of “vehicles and the Guoyuan Port”. The basis will be the core exhibition area of China-Singapore (Chongqing) Demonstration Initiative on Strategic Connectivity and China (Chongqing) Pilot Free Trade Zone. It will build an influential motor car and a new ecological city with livable, business-friendly, and tourism-featured features. According to the director of Yufu Industrial Development Zone, the construction achievements of the new town are remarkable.
“The area of the China-Singapore international new town is about 10 square kilometers. The Chongqing FTZ and China-Singapore cooperation demonstration projects have taken about 8 square kilometers among them. It also includes this rape flower sea, which is popular on the Internet.” The director of this zone added.
Source: CQCB