Quanyitang National Wetland Park

Quanyitang National Wetland Park is one of eight national wetland parks in Yichang city in central China’s Hubei province. Its name derives from the fact that the landscape evokes a hundred rounded armchairs (“Quan Yi” in Chinese) sitting between the green mountains and the blue water.

Located in Zhangcunping Forest Farm, 120 kilometers from the center of Yichang City, the wetland park covers 326.6 hectares and is home to five different types of wetlands: permanent rivers, moss swamps, herbaceous swamps, shrub swamps, and forest swamps.

Together with Shennongjia Dajiu Lake, the park is one of two unique alpine wetlands in Central China, its highest point being the 1,962-meter Quanyitang Peak on the park’s northern edge.

There are 392 types of protected plants in the wetland and 127 types of protected wild animals and birds.

The park is rich in natural resources. It has more than 67 hectares of rhododendron, the largest concentration of this spectacular plant in central China. It also boasts a unique sub-alpine forest, a swamp wetland, an area of virgin forest, countless creeks and moss swamps and more than 1,000 ancient trees over 1,000 years old. This biodiversity is of great value to conservation and scientific research.

Video by Yichang Municipal Bureau of Forestry and Parks, Quanyitang National Wetland Park.