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Agile Xishuanglinyu Phase Four demonstration zone is a renovation project in Gasa Town, Jinghong, at the southernmost tip of Yunnan, backed by a tropical rainforest park of more than ten thousand mu and only a few kilometres from the airport. The design team at Zhilan Landscape took the existing site conditions as a strength and proposed a "rainforest secret realm" landscape that harmonises with the existing architecture, aiming to return resort life to nature and create a fairytale-like tropical atmosphere. The Alice in Wonderland motif runs through the planting and spatial sequence: pushing through high flowering trees feels like falling into a dream with Alice, and crossing a footbridge releases pure oxygen that seems to reset city-weary lungs. A cascade and infinity pool exploit the gentle slope to build layered space, and the moment one steps from sun and shade into the private rear garden, the view opens up and the mind clears. Water pavilions, outdoor lounges and rattan rocking chairs all slow the pace in a city that is always sunny. Playful rabbit sculptures and hanging ferns, once minor accents, become the protagonists in the dappled light. Using the site's extraordinary tropical vegetation, the team staged every plant as if on its own stage: banyan trees and tropical palms form the upper canopy along the route to the show flats, underplanted with rich lower flower borders. The project, developed by Xishuangbanna Agile Tourism Real Estate, is a respectful, near-wilderness tropical resort landscape that lets visitors shed urban fatigue and rediscover childhood ease.