With a length of 1.4km, it is the largest inner city lake in China and the only long dike in Suzhou Jinji Lake. Gong Li Dam was built in 1890- 189 1 year by Li Chaoqiong, then the governor of Yuanhe County. Its completion greatly facilitated the traffic between Yuanhe County and the eastern part of Jinji Lake, and the inclined pond gradually prospered and even formed a market town.
Now the Gong Li Dam was opened to traffic on June 5438+February 2006. It is positioned as an international commercial water street integrating high-end catering, entertainment, sightseeing, leisure and culture, with well-known brand merchants from Denmark, Italy, Germany, Japan, Belgium, China and Hongkong. The first and fourth phases of Gong Li Dam have a total construction area of 258,000 square meters, in which the architectural style of the first phase retains the traditional Suzhou residential form, and brings together international and domestic famous brands and well-known catering merchants including Chinese time-honored brands; The second phase focuses on theme bars, music restaurants, coffee bars and special catering, including the first fashionable leisure and entertainment block in Suzhou-Gong Li Dam 19 12 Bar Block; The third phase brings the concept of lifestyle street Mall into Suzhou for the first time. A commercial pedestrian street full of exotic customs connects theme islands (districts) in series, attracting traditional cultural businesses such as embroidery museum, Cai Stone Carving Museum and art gallery, foreign cultural businesses such as Harley Motorcycle Club, creative cultural businesses such as Basai Art Center and Fund Museum, and together with the fourth phase under construction, actively creating brand businesses that combine culture, commerce and tourism industries with national influence.
Gong Li Dam combines the water and green of Jinji Lake with the culture of Suzhou through the "bridge embankment culture" and "lakeside park", and organically combines Jinji Lake with modern diversified customs, history and reality, leisure tourism and commerce, making it one of the most popular and commercially successful areas in Suzhou. From June 5438 to February 2009, Gong Li Dam stood out from more than 20 municipal-level characteristic commercial streets in Suzhou, and was rated as "China characteristic commercial street" by the China Pedestrian Commercial Street Working Committee, becoming the first "national name" characteristic commercial street in Suzhou. In 20 10, Gong Li dam was rated as "the top ten most beautiful night scenes in Suzhou". In the same year 12, Gong Li dam, as one of the main scenic spots and functional areas of Jinji Lake 4A scenic spot, passed the acceptance of National Tourism Administration. 20 1 1 Gong Li dam won the "most innovative commercial real estate project in China".
(The following text is taken from Zhong Ting Pavilion of Gong Li Dam)
Brief introduction of Gong Li dam
Gong Li Dam was built by Li Chaoqiong in the 15th year of Guangxu (1889).
Li Chaoqiong (18 17— 1909), a native of Hejiang, Sichuan Province, served as a county magistrate for two times, with a loud political voice. At that time, Jinji Lake was full of water and dangerous waves. Every time fishermen go back and forth, Gong Li feels sorry, and spent 14520 yuan to build a dike to kill the water potential. The dike is five miles long and there are thousands of willows. After that, the wind covered the waves, the road was safe and it was convenient to travel. People are full of praise and love to call it the Gong Li Dam.
There are memorial pavilions at both ends of the dam, in which the monument of "Gong Li Dam" is erected. Time has passed, the pavilion has been abandoned and the inscription is still there. At this moment of enlightenment and prosperity, the dike has been repaired and a pavilion has been built, in which the original monument was placed to remember historical facts and show the virtues of Gong Li.
Liu Yue in 2007.