Qianhai's Guiwan Park

Guiwan Park is the first water finger to be built for Qianhai Water City, an innovative and sustainable new city in Shenzhen. As the green core, Guiwan Park supports the city center and creates large-scale blue-green infrastructure for stormwater management, flood protection, and habitat recovery. A continuous coastal park, Guiwan Park features 51,000 square meters of mangroves, 18,000 square meters of freshwater wetland, and 255,000 square meters of parkland, naturalizing the tidal corridor and creating a harmony of beauty and ecological performance. The park combines ecological, social, and urban functions with zones supporting sports, leisure, recreation, and nature exploration, creating a hyper-nature that brings together natural ecology and strengthens an urban energy web. The design reclaims degraded shoreline and transforms it into a thriving tidal wetland ecosystem that also serves as a major public recreational resource. Boardwalks, viewing platforms, and elevated paths allow visitors to experience the mangrove and wetland habitats up close while protecting sensitive ecological zones. The park demonstrates how urban waterfronts can be retrofitted to provide both high-performance ecological infrastructure and world-class public space, setting a model for sustainable coastal development in dense Chinese cities.