Python Mountain National Forest Park

Covering an area of 8,000 hectares, the Python Mountain National Forest Park is the largest of its kind in Beijing. The park is home to 176 plant species and 96 percent of the park area is covered by forests. The most important species are evergreens such as Chinese pine, arborvitae, and lacebark pine.

Walking in the forest and listening to the sound of the mountain breeze is a refreshing experience. Winter jasmine, mountain peach, Ansu apricot, forsythia, clove, flowering almond, Chinese herbaceous peony, Chinese rose, and cherry blossom blooming in succession turns the park into a vast sea of amazing shapes and colors. The fiery red foliage, from smoke tree, mono maple, typhina, to Japanese creeper, tells visitors everything about autumn's splendor.

Over the past years, the Mangshan Mountain has been the voluntary tree planting base for central government organizations. In 1983 and 1984, state leaders including Deng Xiaoping, Wan Li, and Hu Yaobang came here twice to plant trees. The lacebark and Chinese pines they planted are now flourishing with verdant foliage. A Greening Pavilion and hundreds of tablets bearing inscriptions of celebrities are erected in the park, representing the visitors' strong patriotism and awareness of protecting nature and greening the country.

Features:

Forest of Steles: Python Mountain Park fan platform. There is an overflow color that runs through the Dan Afforestation Pavilion, with quotations from ancient inscriptions of Deng Xiaoping, as well as dozens of foreign central unit and the friendship tree planting memorials. Pines and cypresses and monuments set off to form a timeless theme.

Tianchi: State eighty-five key projects, “the Ming Tombs Pumped Storage Power Station” in the pool, entrenched in the Python Peak volume 4.45 million cubic meters, 37 meters water depth, is the largest artificial Tianchi, like a mirror being mounted on the peaks.

Guta: On the summit of the Python Mountain, a highest tower Gumingta, towering pagodas and directing to the sky, is the Ming Dynasty Way back downtown, flourishing across the sky, which makes a sudden and devastating health rib wings - Happy Chu Chen, who flew into just to meditate.

Laughing Buddha: Beijing’s biggest stone carving Maitreya Buddha is 9.9 meters high, master of the system and looks vivid. At the foot of stone statue, Yang Guan Maitreya Buddha sitting on a lotus cushion laughs with an easygoing nature.