A well-known landmark pavilion fronted by two white dolphins on North Haibin Road in Old Xiangzhou has reopened to the public with platforms and corridors enjoying mountain and sea views. A high passage, the venerated bronze statue of Revolutionist Yang Pao'an, and support facilities will be ready before Chinese New Year.

The three-decades-old iconic Wanghai (Seaview) Pavilion is part of Phase I of the 87-acre City Balcony landscape project that commenced in July. Based on its original designs, the renovated pavilion maintains the Lingnan garden style. A smaller pavilion to the south now forms an "overlapping landscape" that is common in garden and courtyard design.

Wanghai Pavilion [Photo by Guo Hai / Zhuhai Daily]

The top floor of the three-level main pavilion is furnished with wooden benches overlooking the sea-crossing Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and multi-layered City Balcony landscape, while the ground floor will provide tourism services in the future.

The dolphins statue in front of the pavilion also takes on a new look with a water circulation system. Meanwhile, the original mountain rocks have been preserved, and withered trees have been cleared from the surrounding vegetation.

The statue of Yang was erected over 30 years ago. He was born in Beishan Village of Nanping Town, Zhuhai and became an outstanding early theorist of the CPC who was credited with introducing Marxism to South China during the May 4th Movement of 1919. Aged 36, he was executed in secret at the Longhua Police Command in Shanghai in August 1931.

Located opposite the Wanghailou Hotel on Haibin Road, the section can also be accessed via stone stairs from Haixia Road on the hill parallel to Central Lovers Avenue.