Beijing has currently built 1,100 parks, two-thirds of which are wall-free, and plans to construct 15 more urban leisure parks this year, according a work conference on the greening of the city held on Wednesday.

In 2024, Beijing built 15 new leisure parks and urban forests, along with 50 pocket parks and small green spaces. The coverage rate of parks and green spaces within a 500-meter service radius reached 91%. Many parks have removed fences and walls, allowing the natural scenery to blend with the city.

Over 500 million park visits were made by residents in Beijing during the past year.

"This year, the plan is to complete afforestation of 10,000 mu (666.67 hectares), build 200 hectares of parkland, and establish 1,000 kilometers of greenways," said Gao Dawei, head of the Beijing Municipal Forestry and Parks Bureau at the conference. "By the end of this year, the city's forest coverage rate is expected to reach 45%, with annual carbon sequestration from forest and green land reaching 10 million metric tons."

In addition, Beijing plans to create 50 "small but beautiful" pocket parks and small green spaces, renovate 10 age-friendly parks, upgrade 10 green buffer parks, and build 100 micro-gardens within residential communities this year.

At present, Beijing is advancing the construction of a garden city, with more garden city landscapes expected to emerge in the future.

To make the parks and greenways more exquisite, the city plans to build 50 scenic corridors in these places in 2025. Currently, the sites for these corridors are being selected, with various types of viewing platforms to be set up in higher terrain areas.

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