Abstract:The waterfront park in city center is an important component of green space system, which is a place to carry the city memory and provide the citizens with the functions of hydrophilic, leisure and entertainment. The waterfront parks in Guangzhou have undergone various upgrading since 2000, but none of them has achieved sustainable ecological and landscape effects. Taking the quality improvement of Liuhua Lake Park as an example, this paper discusses how to take into account the historical continuity, landscape construction and ecological continuity of urban waterfront park under the premise of flood control and drainage. For the first time, the project adopts the cooperative approach of garden, water conservancy, municipal and other departments, and put forward the strategies of opening the park wall in sequence, gradually building the clean water ecosystem of the whole park, reforming the whole park building in accordance with the principle of respecting the history, and creating ten scenes of Liuhua Lake according to the emotional needs of citizens, so as to renew the vitality of the closed and declining old park.