Donghu Park （North Gate）
Largest original lake within the third ring road, born from a build-operate-transfer land deal.
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This guide to Donghu Park in Chengdu starts at the water's edge near the North Gate, where a speedboat driver only three days into a new job lost control on the park's brand-new night route in March 2024, sending the boat toward the dam with four tourists aboard. From there it steps back to the lake's own origin story: not an old garden at all, but the largest original lake inside the city's third ring road, built by a private developer under a build-operate-transfer deal starting in 2003, where the Fu and Sha rivers meet. Look toward the dam near the north embankment, where the lake narrows before it joins the Jinjiang.
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