• The Jinjiang Green Road is a 240 kilometre path for walking and cycling in Chengdu. It runs across ten districts and nine towns, covers 386 cultural resources in the city, and creates a cultural corridor in Chengdu, linking industrial clusters and creating a network of cultural tourism, sports and agriculture. 

• The Tianfu Jincheng Project in downtown Chengdu brings together major cultural infrastructure such as museums, libraries, art galleries and theatres. It integrates historic and modern areas of the city under an ethos of ‘Old Chengdu, International Chengdu’. It encompasses the Chunxi Road shopping district, the Old City Circle, the Kuanzhai Xiangzi (Wide and Narrow Lanes), Wenshu Temple and the Jinjiang Ecological Circle. 

• The Panda Project, a collaboration between China and France, will develop Panda Planet Culture and Creative Park, an area of 3.5 square kilometres for a major new centre devoted to the study and protection of giant pandas. The area will include a natural science museum devoted to understanding the life of pandas.  

• The Tianfu Olympic Sports City is a major new development designed to host large-scale sporting events. The planned layout for the complex includes an Olympic standard stadium, media centre, indoor cycling hall, shooting club, water sports centre, beach volleyball court, mountain bike track, an exhibition centre and a ferry depot.

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