Before Australia's bicentennial celebration in 1988, the plan came about to commemorate both that event and the sister city relationship with the construction of a Chinese garden.
一九八八年澳洲立國二百年前，為了慶祝國慶，同時誌念雪梨和廣州的姊妹情誼，在八六、八七年間遂有「中澳合作建造一個中式庭園」的構思。