Water Forest Park

　　    Water Forest Park is located 17 kilometers from Xinghua City and boasts the province's largest artificial ecological forest — Lizhong Town Water Forest Park. It’s an ideal destination for city folk seeking to return to nature and unwind. This place is a natural oxygen bar. The artificial ecological forest covers an area of 1,500 acres and utilizes a three-dimensional model of forest, stumps, ditches, and fish. Towering metasequoia and dawn redwood trees reach for the sky, attracting birds that nest in their canopies, while fish leap playfully in the ditches, creating a lively atmosphere throughout the forest. This is a paradise for wildlife. Owls, wild ducks, egrets, black cuckoos, budgerigars, and mountain magpies all nest and thrive here. The park is home to over 30,000 birds on a regular basis, with the number sometimes exceeding 60,000. At dusk, as flocks return to their nests, they darken the skies in a spectacular display. Experts from the Provincial Tourism Bureau and professors from Tongji University in Shanghai have noted that this is the largest artificial wetland forest ecosystem in the Lixiahe region and holds great potential for tourism development.