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China Green Development Changjiang Xu, in the Cuntan area of Jiangbei, Chongqing, is a delivered landscape of about 47,925 square meters designed by Shenzhen Xishishi Landscape and Architectural Planning. The site's slope and riverside position are both challenge and opportunity: the sales gallery sits high on a mountain, and the design had to use spatial guidance to mask disadvantages and organize the best experiential route. Following China Green Development's low-carbon development principle, the design minimizes excavation and excessive terracing, extracts the building's modern, tensile forms, and folds the mountain's power and shape into the space to create layered overlaps of mountain and view, producing a unique fog-city atmosphere. Three years later, the same mountains and river show new life: extreme river, mountain and city views remain the great ensemble, and the site is opened like an origami, with an uphill experiential line that is the ultimate expression of river-mountain art, gradually leading from the great water into a secluded garden. Looking over the river, the Yangtze winds away while the mountain road winds upward; distant water noise reveals a cascading waterfall falling from the slope, the waterfall court symbolizing high-mountain flowing water on the way home. The sales gallery sits on a water terrace, where water at different levels reflects building, sky and trees, giving the terrace rich texture. Embracing the mountain, the design makes the moving person the protagonist of space: walls and corridors fold with water and light, so that around each corner one meets mountain, water, light, shadow or oneself. Looking at the stars, the river reflects city lights and stars, and steps lead up into dialogue with the star river. Finally, the riverside garden of the model home, placed at the highest point of the plot, commands a 180-degree river view. On the outdoor terrace, a sunken Cloud-Dream Floating Island recreates natural mountain-forest leisure; rhythmic lines animate the space, and two green islands flanking the steps like cloud bands lead to a small rainbow bridge over a floating water platform. A selected Acer palmatum on the natural islet turns red in autumn, giving residents a place to watch leaves and moon, so that life near the bustling city still feels like a poetic, natural retreat.