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The inauguration of the National Botanical Garden is an important symbol of the sustainable development of economy, science, technology, culture, ecology and society

author:Fan Xiaowei

Contemporary China Think Tank 2022-04-18 1

The inauguration of the National Botanical Garden is an important symbol of the sustainable development of economy, science, technology, culture, ecology and society

On April 18, the National Botanical Garden was officially inaugurated in Beijing. According to the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, the establishment of the National Botanical Garden is based on the existing conditions of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (South Garden) and the Beijing Botanical Garden (North Garden), which are organically integrated through expansion and efficiency, with a total planned area of nearly 600 hectares.

The inauguration of the National Botanical Garden is an important symbol of the sustainable development of economy, science, technology, culture, ecology and society

It is reported that the National Botanical Garden adheres to the concept of national representation and social welfare, gives full play to the core functions of plant ex situ protection and scientific research, focuses on collecting more than 30,000 species of native plants in the Three North Regions, representative plants of the Northern Temperate Zone, representative plants of different geographical divisions of the world and rare and endangered plants, collects 5 million representative plant specimens from five continents, and successively completes projects such as the Plant Science Research Center, the Ex situ Conservation Research Center, the Germplasm Resources Preservation Center, the Herbarium Phase II, and the Five Continents Greenhouse Group. Construction of 28 special types of parks.

The inauguration of the National Botanical Garden is an important symbol of the sustainable development of economy, science, technology, culture, ecology and society

On October 12, 2021, at the 15th Summit of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, China announced that it will launch the construction of botanical gardens in Beijing, Guangzhou and other countries in line with the principle of combining in situ conservation and ex situ conservation. On December 28, 2021, the State Council approved the establishment of the National Botanical Garden in Beijing.

The National Botanical Garden is an iconic national symbol, and the establishment of a National Botanical Garden in the capital is a common practice in many countries around the world. The National Botanical Garden is a comprehensive place that mainly carries out ex situ protection and scientific research of plants, and has the functions of science dissemination, garden horticultural display and ecological leisure, is a national plant diversity protection base, and is an important symbol of the sustainable development of a country's economy, science and technology, culture, ecology and society.

The inauguration of the National Botanical Garden is an important symbol of the sustainable development of economy, science, technology, culture, ecology and society

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