Three bicycle lanes around Taihu Lake in Suzhou city are shown in a planning map.

Suzhou plans to build bicycle lanes around Taihu Lake for an enriching experience of nature and rural culture while exercising, the city’s land planner said.

Yangwan Slow Lanes, also known as Bicycle Park, will offer fruit picking, tea picking and production, farming experience, home stays, rural feasts and other leisure and tour activities around the lake.

The park will cover an area of 5.4 square kilometers and be built over three phases.

One of the three lanes will run along the ridge of the hill of Yangwan village, and the other two will be located along the lake in the northern and southern sides of the village.

The three bicycle lanes will connect about 40 cultural and historic sites amid beautiful natural landscape.

The first phase of the bicycle lane project will be finished early next year. A 7-kilometer green lane with tracks of 6.4 kilometers in total will cover nine major scenic sites around the area.

According to the plan, a simple stop area will be set up every kilometer along the lane, and a full rest area will be installed every three kilometers.