Pudong Lingkong Agricultural Grand View Garden　浦东凌空农艺大观园

Pudong Lingkong Agricultural Grand View Garden, located in South Huazhou Road, Pudong with an area of 1030 mu, began its construction in October 2000. And so far the first-term project has completed. This garden is a base for the production of green food, an ecological paradise for the harmonious co-existence of man, animals and plants, and a good destination for agricultural tourism in Shanghai. "Let the city be full of greenness, and life be filled with poetry." This is what Zhou Weishi, Chairman of China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, wrote after his visit to this garden, which is actually the vivid description of the garden.

The first visiting spot of the garden is the section of new hi-tech agriculture, which consists of 500 modern intelligent canopied fields where are grown the green food, perilla leaf, that sells abroad, as well as various precious melons and fruits. Perilla leaf is the traditional Chinese herbal medicine and spice, and it has very short growth period and a high economic value. The staff of this garden has made full use of new techniques and equipment to greatly increase the productivity. At present, they can produce approximately one million perilla leaves in the canopied fields, making great contribution of earning foreign currency.

As soon as the tourist steps into the canopied fields of perilla leaf, he will feel highly refreshed, because the leaves can purify the air.

In the section of new hi-tech agriculture, the tourist can also find over 20 precious melons and fruits from China, such as the tomatoes as small as cherries and the pumpkins more than 200 kg in weight.

Planted in the foreign plants section are a variety of famous trees and exotic fruits from over 160 countries. It is a world of birds twittering and flowers emitting fragrance, trees vying for attention, thus entirely a scene of thriving life. More than ten thousand trees, including gingko, locust, white pine, white maple, yucca, jujube, pear, loquat, peach, orange, etc., make up a kaleidoscopic world of trees. In addition, there are the giant pumpkins from the United States, the green cucumbers from the Netherlands, the cherries from Japan, the Golden Barrel Cactus from Arab, snake gourd and Buddha-hand pumpkins from India, and the pear-shaped pumpkins from South Africa.

The amazing and interesting zoo is also an attraction. In the zoo are raised many precious animals, such as fowl cocks, sika deer, ostriches, monkeys, and foreign dogs and golden pheasants.

The tourists could come close to play with them. If they'd like to, they could even be ostrich knights, riding around gracefully. And they can enjoy the fierce fights between the foreign pheasants, the comic performances by the famous dogs, and the beautiful peacock tail display.

The Jurassic botanical garden is a mysterious place, where on display are nearly a thousand pieces of fossilized wood from the Jurassic Period, more than 500 stalactites and over 2000 rare rocks of all kinds, which rank No.1 in China, in terms of quantity or quality or grade, thus having aroused extensive attention amidst many domestic and foreign specialists and scholars.

The fossilized wood in the Jurassic botanical garden is about one hundred million years old, approximately in the same times as the dinosaurs.

Some look like villages, some mountains, and still some wind, flowers, snow, and the moon. All these stones arouse great amazement and curiosity among tourists.

The beautiful nostalgic section is a place full of rural nature landscaping. The tourists can find the old and simple countryside houses, farm cattle, mills, weaving machines, and shepherds.

The Porcelain Figures Hall is a must for the tourist, because the large-size handicrafts have won the Great World Guinness Record. On the basis of the major characters of the novel The Water Margin, the 108 heroes and heroines, together with their historical stories, were vividly portrayed in the exquisite porcelain handicrafts. The tourists admire the craftsmenship. To crown it all, the two huge dragons that are made up of thousands porcelain wares are really awesome and imposing. They are the unique handicrafts work of art in the world.

In the Underwater World, tourists will appreciate some nationally protected wild animals, such as green sea turtles, three-striped box turtles, hawksbill sea turtles, etc. And they can attend the hair-raising performance of embracing the crocodile. In case any tourist would like to hug the crocodile, he or she could do it by all means, because the workers have already taken some technical measures to the animal, which will definitely not hurt the tourist.

Pudong Lingkong Agricultural Grand View Garden is a good tourist place that is novel in content and beautiful in scenery, as well as an agricultural grand view garden that is up to its reputation.

Address: No.1, Huazhou Road

Tel.: 021-33935563

Open Hours: 8:30 - 16:30