Addressing the event, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hailed the park as a significant boost to local tourism, a spearhead sector of the city, and for satisfying people’s need for recreation and entertainment.
He urged the Hanoi authorities to promptly complete land clearance work to create favourable conditions for investors, while asking investors to fulfill their commitments concerning the progress and quality of the project in order to build another tourist highlight for the capital city.
The event is a concrete action towards realising the vision for development of Hanoi approved by the prime minister in the Hanoi construction master plan until 2030 with a vision to 2050, and step by step executing the city’s programme of planting one million green trees and building 25 additional parks, with three to five of them meeting the international and regional standards, in the 2016-2020 period.
This will be the first time Hanoi has accommodated an international-level park both imitating the historical legend and imbued with unique cultural identities of the land with a thousand-year-old culture.
The Kim Quy (Golden Turtle) Park will be built on an area of more than 100 hectares at initial costs of VND4.6 trillion (US$209 million), featuring both traditional culture of Hanoi and the modern design of Universal Studios and Disneyland.
Designed by ITEC Group, a world-leading US company specialising in designing parks, the park will have trees and water faces arranged in a spiral shape with inspiration from the legend of the Co Loa spiral-shaped citadel (located in Dong Anh district of Hanoi now), which was built by King An Duong Vuong in the third century BC with the help of the Golden Turtle God.
What is different is that the Kim Quy Park will have a garden of green trees and a public park, giving open space for visitors to enjoy the nature and participate in outdoor activities. Together with modern games applying cutting-edge of technology, the park also comprises an art area and a Kim Quy cultural village to host large-scale art shows.
Here following are some photos of the Kim Quy Park.
