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Wuwei Desert Park, located in front edge of the Tengger Desert 19 km east of Wuwei city of Gansu province, is a tourism attraction with an perfect integration of desert scenery, grassland style and garden features.

Wuwei Desert Park was first built in 1986. With more than 350 kinds of sand plants were brought into from all over the world in 1994, the park was built into a scientific and interesting desert botanical garden. The Park covers a total area of 8 million square meters, which has and 5 million sand plants of 20 breeds. The green coverage rate of the park is above 80℅.

Wuwei Desert Park has a swimming pool with an area of more than 400 square meters, a race course, sand bathing ground, Damo pavilion, Taoxin pavilion, Yuanyang pavilion and Taohua pavilion. There are undulating sand dunes and a variety of plants in the Desert Park such as sacsaoul, birch, red willow, agriophyllum, tree canopy and so on. It’s the biggest park with sceneries of desert and oases. The professors from the department of Geography of Lanzhou University redesigned the Desert Park, aiming to build Wuwei Desert Park into a showcase for achievements in desertification control, a tourist attraction and a recreation center.

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Add;Qingyuan Town.,Liangzhou District of Wuwei City
Opening Hours:08:00-18)0
Entrance Fee: CNY 60