Chengdu city in Sichuan province is sprucing up its Third Ring Road with a 50-meter-wide green belt, according to a report in Chengdu Daily on March 9.

The huge landscaping project, which was initated in February and is due to be completed in April, will turn the 52-kilometer-long ring road into an “around-the-city park”.

“We want to make the Third Ring Road a breathtaking boulevard decorated with trees and flowers, in a bid to give citizens a feast for the eyes even while they are zipping along the lanes,” said a director of Chengdu Communications Investment Group Co, which is leading the project.

The green belt is an important part of a major reconstruction project on the Third Ring Road, which is the largest greening project in Chengdu and was launched in January this year.

The 18.5-km-long project contains tree transplantations, road greening and construction of sidewalks and bicycle lanes. An extra paved green belt will run between the sidewalks and bicycle lanes to ensure smooth and safe traffic flow.

As Arbor Day approaches, a voluntary tree-planting campaign will start on March 11. Citizen representatives will be invited to put their names on “wishing trees”.

Source from China Daily