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Qiqu Childhood Parent-Child Park in Xiangyang, created by OCT Xiangyang as a core product of its fantasy resort and designed by Shanghai Jigao Group, opened on May 1, 2021. With a total investment of about 800 million RMB and a footprint of nearly 210,000 square meters, the park integrates natural landscape, nautical adventure, petting animals, farm practice, study classrooms, an original IP, parades and family play into eight highlights and five themed zones: Discovery Center, Licorice Hometown, Grass-bandit Bug Gang, Flying Kingdom and Forest Tribe, with over one hundred domestic and international family experiences. The park's original story IP, Qiqu Childhood Adventure, frames the invitation to parents to accompany children in experiencing nature and letting love run wild, and positions the project as China's first companion-style, nature-based family edutainment park, a living natural textbook. At the entry, the Crown of Courage is an 860-square-meter, 32.5-meter-tall climbing structure inspired by a giant science-fiction tree, combining slides, climbing and a glass sky-bridge, with a half-transparent spiral slide descending from 16 meters. The Mini Park offers a smaller version of the IP for toddlers, and a 15-meter super water table, imported from the American Boss Display brand and built on food-grade 304 stainless steel with five 220V pumps, lets children assemble boats and race them through simulated rapids. In the Flying Kingdom, the merganser, a rare national first-class protected species surviving since the Tertiary, sets the ecological scene: the Merganser Marsh, about 1,000 square meters and 15 meters tall, places three giant mergansers among reeds and water, with tubes, suspension bridges and climbing; the Bird-watching Tower reproduces a nest with rope nets, telescopes and obstacle paths. In the Forest Tribe, educational programming is woven into play, with the Chief's Canoe holding sixty people on whispering lake, and a jungle track for age-banked ride-on toys. In Licorice Hometown, a giant 80-person trampoline, the Harvest Express tractor and the barn conveyor slides bring farm life into play. The park immediately topped local rankings on Douyin, Dianping and Meituan.