Revisited Fuxing Island Park during the National Day holiday

Fearing the crowds during the National Day holiday, why not choose a quiet park for a walk? Thus, I revisited Fuxing Island Park. Fuxing Island Park is located in Dinghai Road Street, Yangpu District, Shanghai, with the address of 386 Gongqing Road, originally the Shanghai Junpu Bureau Sports Club. The park was built in the 1930s, occupied by the Japanese army during the Anti-Japanese War, and returned to the Junpu Bureau after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. In October 1948, the "Fuxing Island Recovery Monument" was erected and destroyed in 1967. After the liberation of Shanghai, it was taken over by the Port Authority, transferred to the Engineering Bureau in February 1951, slightly renovated, and opened to the public in May, covering an area of 4.19 hectares. In June 2009, the municipal and district governments carried out a comprehensive renovation of the park. Through "retention, restoration, promotion, and rectification", the renovated park highlights the Japanese-style cherry blossom forest, Heart Lake, and the historically significant "Bai Lu" in the landscape, making it a park with a strong Japanese garden style. The excellent historical buildings in the park, garden residences, the original "Bai Lu", built in the 1930s, brick and concrete structure. The building has a regular plan, a sloping roof, and cement plastered walls. It used to be the Shanghai Junpu Bureau Colleague Club. In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek stayed here before going to Taiwan. It is now the Yangpu Binjiang Party Mass Service Station - Yangshupu Post Station Fuxing Island Park Station. Fuxing Island Park has 71 species of trees and shrubs such as camphor, Guangyu, Longbai, black pine, cedar, plane tree, sea banyan, red maple, holly, boxwood, jujube, iron jojoba, osmanthus, wisteria and more than 3,000 plants, as well as a large number of ground cover plants, surrounded by palm, water fir, coral trees and other trees as hedges. There are also free badminton courts and gateball courts in the park. When I went there, I just met two young men who had just finished a game of badminton and said they often come here to play for free. Now there are more visitors to Fuxing Island Park than before. When we came here in 2018, there were not so many people. Now the Gongqing Road on the west side of the park has a new look and is no longer the same as it was five years ago. At that time, the Gongqing Road area can be described as gray sky and gray ground.