People's Park (Tianjin)

People's Park (Chinese: 人民公园; pinyin: Rénmín Gōngyuán) is an urban public park and Qing-era Chinese garden in Hexi District in central Tianjin, China.

Originally built in 1863 as the private Rong Garden (荣园), it was donated to the state and opened to the public in 1951.

[3] Built in 1863 during the Qing dynasty, the park was originally the private garden of the wealthy salt merchant Li Chuncheng (李春城).

After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Li family donated the garden to the state, and it was opened to the public on 1 July 1951 as People's Park.

In 1954, Chairman Mao Zedong presented the park with his calligraphy of its name.