Construction of an innovation park on the former site of a Beijing dairy factory is nearing completion. The park, which is part of Beijing's Zhongguancun Science City, will specialize in developing smart mobile services and will begin operation by the end of October.

The project is being built on the old site of Sanyuan, a Beijing-based dairy producer, which began as a dairy farm in Beijing's Haidian district in the 1980s before transforming into a dairy processing factory for milk and various dairy products. As part of a push to relieve Beijing of functions nonessential to its role as the capital, the company relocated to the city's suburbs in 2010.

The innovation park project began construction in 2017. When completed, it will attract a group of high-tech enterprises and foster new growth areas for sci-tech innovation in Zhongguancun Science City.

The 340,000-square-meters park consists of 14 standalone buildings that will be used as offices and support centers. Some elements of the old milk equipment have been kept and made into a rocket sculpture as a nod to the factory's history and a means to retain its industrial décor.

The park will provide buildings of different sizes to meet the sci-tech companies' diversified office needs as well as a stable electricity supply, secure internet services, and the best indoor air quality.

To promote green travel, the park also offers a three-story underground parking lot with 1,800 parking spots and an underground bicycle parking facility with some 4,000 bike parking places.

So far, the building of the main structure is complete, as too is construction of most of the secondary structures and the site's facade. Construction is expected to be finished by the end of this month.

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