1924 was built as Wanxian Commercial Port Park at the beginning of this year.
1925 to 1928, Yang Sen plans to build Xishan Park with an area of more than 560 mu. Li Huan, Minister of Yang Sen's Military Department and Secretary-General of Wanxian Commercial Port Bureau, served as the park management office.
1September 5, 926, British ships shelled Wanxian. To commemorate this event, the park was renamed "9.5 Park" and Zhu De was invited to nominate it.
1928165438+10 was renamed "Zhongshan Park" in October to commemorate the victory of the Northern Expedition. At that time, it was planned to cover an area of 600 mu, mainly building the Ninth Five-Year Plan library, antique exhibition hall and ancient bell tower, and at the same time cultivating gardens, pools, roads, pavilions and so on. In the same year, due to the opening of Xishan Park, Wang inscribed Xishan and the park was renamed Xishan Park. Xishan Park is lush with flowers and trees, covering a vast area, and the Yangtze River stretches as far as the eye can see. There are many scenic spots in the park. At that time, Wanzhou Xishan Park was very famous in China.
From 65438 to 0939, Gregory Kurishenko Akimovich came to China to fight against Japan.
193910 June 14 fell into Wanxian County, Sichuan Province (now Wanzhou District, Chongqing) after the air battle, and was buried in Xishan Park, Wanxian City, and the Kurishenko Monument was erected.
1949 65438+Wanxian was liberated on February 8.
1950 was handed over to the Construction Bureau of Wanxian Municipal People's Government by the Military Management Committee of China People's Liberation Army in June, and then managed by the Xishan Park Management Office of Wanxian City. After liberation, according to the nature of regional comprehensive parks, the park added cultural, sports, entertainment, zoo and other functional facilities, and at the same time added walls, and began to collect and sell park tickets, and built six scenic spots, including Bell Tower, Wuzhou Pool, Landscape Garden, Platform and Ornamental Flower Forest, which greatly improved the gardening and ornamental level of the park. The number of tourists in the park has increased year by year, with the highest annual number of tourists reaching 800,000.
On the other hand, since liberation, due to the needs of urban development and out of control of park planning and management, the park area has been greatly reduced, the infrastructure in the park has been in disrepair for a long time, inappropriate facilities and units have settled in, and internal staff dormitories abound, resulting in traffic jams and declining landscape quality. At present, only about 100 mu of scenic spots can really provide sightseeing for tourists. The whole park is less than 160 mu.