Guiyang is now home to more than 1,000 parks

Guiyang, the capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province, is now home to 1,025 parks, achieving its park-development goal set in 2015.

In the past five years, the city has established a whopping 660 new parks, including forest parks, wetland parks, mountain parks, city parks and community parks.

In addition to establishing parks, Guiyang also carried out the comprehensive treatment of the water environment within the Nanming River basin and completed the landscaping of 230 hilltops.

For its next step, Guiyang will foster a better ecological environment management system and modern environmental treatment system and continue to improve the local ecological pattern, according to Guiyang's bureau of ecology and environment.