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Built to mark Australia's 1988 Bicentenary, the Chinese Garden of Friendship is a walled classical garden at the southern end of Darling Harbour, created as a gift of friendship between the state of New South Wales and its sister province of Guangdong. Designed by landscape architects from Guangzhou and modelled on the private scholar gardens of imperial China, it was the first garden of its kind in the southern hemisphere when it opened in January 1988, and it remains a rare and carefully maint...