Centennial city sculpture square is located at the southernmost tip of the north-south central axis, among which the huge book sculpture is located in the south near the sea, which is the commanding height of Xinghai Square.
There are many sculptures in Xinghai Square, including century-old urban sculptures, bronze sculptures and modern sports sculptures, among which:
There are six groups of bronze sculptures, namely, two groups of female mounted police bronze sculptures, two groups of roller skating bronze sculptures, 1 group concert bronze sculptures and 1 group children's bronze sculptures. In addition, there are 40 groups of competitive sports sculptures on the edge of the outer ring of Xinghai Square.
The relief of bronze carving footprints is 80 meters long, and it collects the representative footprints of 1000 in various times and industries, showing the continuous progress of Dalian people in the past 100 years.
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Xinghai Square adopts arc style, and there is a circle in the oval road network, in which the inner circle diameter is 199.9 m, which means the anniversary of Dalian 1999 100, and the outer circle diameter is 239.9 m, which means that Dalian will celebrate its 500th anniversary in 2399. The central star square is a circular square with three steps on the high ground.
The layout of the central part draws on the design concept of the dome of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. It is paved with 999 pieces of Sichuan red marble. The marble is engraved with heavenly stems and earthly branches, the 24 solar terms, the Chinese zodiac and other patterns. In addition, there are nine pots with different shapes, and each pot has a Chinese character from Wei Bei, which together are nine Chinese characters: "Long live the great unity of the Chinese nation".
The central periphery of the red marble is decorated with a yellow five-pointed star, which forms a scene of the intersection of Xinghai with the Yellow Sea in the north of Xinghai Square, symbolizing its "Star Bay" and symbolizing Chinese descendants with red and yellow colors.