The Seventh Lianhua Hill Glades Music Festival will be held Wednesday to officially kick off this year’s Shenzhen Park Culture Season, which will run through March next year.

Seven types of cultural activities will be held in the city’s 45 parks to present over 400 events, according to the Shenzhen Municipal Urban Administration and Law Enforcement Bureau, the Park Culture Season’s organizer.

The events include flower fairs such as 2021 Shenzhen Bougainvillea Show (to be held from Nov. 20 to Dec. 9 in Futian’s Lianhua Hill Park), Shenzhen Chrysanthemum Fair (from Nov. 25 to Dec. 8 in Luohu’s Donghu Park, Futian’s Xiangmi Park and the Shenzhen trial base of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Dapeng) and Shenzhen Chinese Rose Show (during the 2022 Chinese Lunar New Year).

In addition to well-known concerts such as Lianhua Hill Glades Music Festival, a forest concert in Fairy Lake Botanical Garden and Shenzhen Bay Concert, more music festivals will be held in Bao’an Coastal Cultural Park, Yantian’s Dameisha Beach Park and in Guangming’s OCT Farm for the first time during the Park Culture Season.

Other activities include sports competitions, art performances and nature education events along with newly introduced cultural product markets which will be organized in parks across the city.

COVID-19 prevention and control measures will be in place during the season to ensure safety.

In another development, a new leisure space named Fengyuxuan located in Shenzhen Central Park in Futian District officially opened to the public yesterday morning.

The space includes a book bar, nature education center and service center.

It is said that so far, there are 42 book bars (small libraries) in public parks across the city. The number is expected to reach 50 by the end of this year, according to the city’s park management center.

Shenzhen now is home to a total of 1,206 parks of different features.