Spring City Square
Spring City Square (泉城广场), as a centre square of Jinan City (Shandong Province, China), is located at city downtown built by Jinan government. It is surrounded by Thousand-Buddha Mountain from the south, Daming Lake from the north, with Baotu Spring on the west side and Liberation Pavilion on the east side. The square has length of 790 meter and width of 280 meter which is occupied about 220,000 square meter. The construction started at July 10, 1998 and finished at September 25, 1999. The square is consisted by Baotu Spring Square, Shandong Celebrities Memorial Hall, Spring City Square, Binhe Square, Sofitel Silver Plaza, Lotus Musical Fountain, Four-Season Garden, Culture Gallery, Technology Center and etc.
The famous statue, Spring, with 38.11 meter height and 170 ton weight at the center of square is designed by Tianren Wang from Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. The inspiration of this statue comes from the "Spring" (泉) character in Seal Script (篆), which is an ancient style of Chinese calligraphy. It now has become a symbol of Jinan.