29,500 m²! A new landmark in Kuliang is here! The China-US Youth Friendship Woods is set to open to the public soon!
To welcome the upcoming Bond with Kuliang: 2025 China-U.S. Youth Choir Week, the China-US Youth Friendship Woods located beside The Kuliang Club has been basically completed and will officially open during the event.
Themed around the friendship between Chinese and American youth, the China-US Youth Friendship Woods is positioned as an “international friendship culture inheritance park, an eastern gateway reception hall for Kuliang, and an upgraded summer retreat and camping destination.” Through landscape enhancement, environmental improvement, and ecological restoration, it aims to create a friendship-themed park that integrates cultural exchange, memorial education, nature immersion, and leisure activities.
Situated near The Kuliang Club and covering approximately 29,500 square meters, the China-US Youth Friendship Woods is built along the mountain terrain, featuring four distinctive sections: “Rock-Solid Friendship,” “Everlasting Vitality,” “Friendship Confluence,” and “Mountain-Top Vista.”
At the entrance, a striking “China-US Youth Friendship Woods” inscription stands on a landscape rock, surrounded by meticulously arranged flowers and vegetation, symbolizing the rock-solid friendship between Chinese and American youths.
A Cryptomeria trail winds through lush meadows, lined with tall, stately Cryptomeria trees, symbolizing friendship with “Everlasting Vitality” like the millennium-old trees. On both sides of the trail, vibrant roses form a beautiful floral wall.
The “Friendship Confluence” site features a lush grove planted by Chinese and American youth and “Kuliang Friends” during last year’s Bond with Kuliang: China-US Youth Festival. Golden laurel, red maple, Michelia maudiae… 186 trees of friendship are thriving in the mountain breeze of Kuliang, forming a vibrant woodland.
At the “Mountain-Top Vista” site, a sunset viewing platform sits amidst the mountains, surrounded by roses. Standing on the platform, one can enjoy distant emerald mountains and nearby verdant trees while feeling a gentle breeze. As evening falls and the sun sets, golden rays bathe the mountains and forests, offering a breathtaking scene. Visitors can sit quietly, take photos, or experience a close conversation with nature here.
The opening of the China-US Youth Friendship Woods will provide a new destination for locals and tourists to embrace nature, experience friendship, and capture memorable moments, adding an important window to Kuliang that tells a new chapter of China-US friendship.
