Chongqing Amusement Park

Chongqing Amusement Park (), formerly known as Chongqing Popular Science Center (), is the largest amusement park in

Nan'an District Nan'an District (), is one of the six central districts of Chongqing municipality, China. It covers an area of 262.43 km2, with 44 km2 covered with forests and woods. It has an estimated population of 891,000 in late 2017. Geography The ...

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a municipality in Southwest China. The official abbreviation of the city, "" (), was approved by the State Cou ...

, in southwestern China. The park was created in 1991. It cost the Chongqing government about 100 million RMB to construct facilities and import some amusement facilities from

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. The park is located on top of a hill on the southern bank of the

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, near the southern end of

Shibanpo Yangtze River Bridge The Shibanpo Yangtze River Bridge () consists of a pair of prestressed concrete box girder bridges over the Yangtze River in Chongqing, China. The bridges carries 8 lanes of traffic on Jiangnan Avenue between the Nan'an District south of the Ya ...

. The

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, constructed in 1991 and renovated in 2007, stands on the hill and has become one of the landmarks of

of Chongqing. Nan'an District Parks in Chongqing {{Chongqing-stub