SHANGHAI is to build a city park network with some 300 parks by 2020, including mini-sized “pocket parks,” community parks and larger regional parks, officials said yesterday.

According to the Shanghai Greenery and Sanitation Administration Bureau, in the past five years, the city has completed an urban park system with parks graded in three levels — pocket, community and regional.

The number of city parks was raised from 157 to 217 from 2012 to 2017. The year 2012 was also the start of Shanghai’s specific plan and construction of countryside parks.