Shanghai Parks Fuxing Park, opened in 1909 as the French Park, it is the only park in China of a classic European design. Hongkou Park, in the northeast of the city, was opened in 1905. Home of the Lu Xun Memorial and of a pond with rowing boats for hire. Huangpu Park, on the Bund near the Suzhou Creek bridge. The British, when they ran Shanghai, used to call it the Public Gardens. One of the park regulations stipulated that the only Chinese allowed in were nannies. Another banned dogs. Popular mythology has combined the two into a sign saying 'No dogs and Chinese allowed', which never existed. But there's no denying that that was, in essense, the intention. Renmin Park. Part of what used to be racecourse. The grandstand has been used for the past few decades as the Shanghai city library. The library is moving soon to a new structure on Hengshan Lu to the west.