Xujiahui Park | |
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Location | Shanghai |
Xujiahui Park | |||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 徐家汇公园 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 徐家彙公園 | ||||||
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Xujiahui Park is a park in Xuhui District,Shanghai. It was built in 1999,on the former grounds of the Great Chinese Rubber Works Factory and the EMI Recording Studio (now La Villa Rouge restaurant). [1] The park has an artificial lake with a sky bridge running across the park. [1]
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