To create a national garden city, everything you need to know is here!

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What is a National Garden City?

According to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's "National Garden City Standards", the National Garden City is a city with balanced distribution, reasonable structure, perfect functions, beautiful landscape, fresh and comfortable living environment, safe and pleasant city.

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How can the public participate in the creation of a national garden city in our city?

As the master of the city, we should actively support and participate in the construction of garden cities, take the initiative to contribute to the creation of a national garden city in our city, consciously resist the behavior of stepping on green and damaging green, and contribute to the greening of the city.

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What is Parkgreen Space?

Park green space refers to the green space open to the public, with recreation, ecology, landscape, culture and education, emergency avoidance and other functions, and has certain recreation and service facilities.

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What are Ancient Trees, Famous Trees, and Reserve Ancient Trees?

Ancient trees refer to large trees that are more than 100 years old, famous trees refer to trees that are rare, valuable or have historical value and commemorative significance, and reserve resources of ancient trees refer to large trees that are more than 50 years old but less than 100 years old.

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What is a comprehensive park?

Comprehensive park: The area should not be less than 5 hectares, and a variety of facilities such as sightseeing, leisure, fitness, children's games, sports, and popular science should be set up.

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What is Urban Dual Study?

Urban dual cultivation refers to ecological restoration and urban repair. Among them, ecological restoration aims to restore mountains, rivers and vegetation in a planned and step-by-step manner, focusing on restoring the self-regulating function of urban ecosystems through a series of means, and urban restoration, focusing on continuously improving the quality of urban public services, improving municipal infrastructure conditions, exploring and protecting urban history, culture and social networks, so that the urban functional system and the space it carries can be comprehensively and systematically repaired, compensated and improved.

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What is mountain ecological restoration?

Mountain ecological restoration is to restore the damaged mountain through land consolidation, urban construction, improvement of residents' living conditions, vegetation restoration and reconstruction, etc., to restore the ecological function of the mountain.

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How many assessment indicators are there for the creation of a national garden city?

According to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development's "National Garden City Standards", the creation of a national garden city meets 57 indicators in 8 categories, including comprehensive management, green space construction, construction control, ecological environment, municipal facilities, energy conservation and emission reduction, social security, and comprehensive veto.

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What are the basic greening indicators of national garden cities?

There are three items, namely the green space rate of the built-up area is 31%, the green coverage rate is 36%, and the per capita park green space is more than 9.00 square meters.

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What are the declaration conditions for a national garden city?

(A) has developed a work plan, annual implementation plan and publicized to the public, and the creation of the work plan and annual implementation has been reported to the provincial housing urban construction (landscaping) department for the record.

(2) To apply for a national garden city, it is necessary to conduct a grade evaluation according to the "Evaluation Standards for Urban Landscaping" and reach the level II standard, and obtain the title of provincial garden city for more than 2 years.

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What are the requirements for the declaration of a national garden city?

The National Garden City Review is carried out every two years, with even years being the declaration year and odd years being the review years. The declaring city shall submit the application of the urban people's government, the preliminary review opinion of the provincial housing and urban-rural development department and the basic data of remote sensing test to the urban construction department of the Ministry of housing and urban-rural development before September 30 of the declaration year.

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What is the Urban Green Line?

The urban green line is the control line of various types of urban green space, including the existing green line and the planned green line. The status quo green line is a protection line, and the planning green line is a control line.

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What is the Urban Blue Line?

The urban blue line is the territorial boundary for the protection and control of urban surface water bodies such as rivers, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, canals and wetlands determined by urban planning.

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What are the requirements for road greening to create a national garden city?

Urban road greening conforms to the "Code for Urban Road Greening Planning and Design", and the greening penetration rate and compliance rate are ≥ 95% and ≥80% respectively.

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What are the types of urban garden green spaces?

Urban garden green space is divided into five categories: park green space, production green space, protective green space, attached green space and other green space.

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What is Vertical Greening?

Vertical greening is a form of greening that uses climbing or hanging plants to decorate three-dimensional spaces such as building walls, trellises or railings.

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What is an evergreen tree? What is a deciduous tree?

Evergreen trees are trees that are evergreen in all seasons, and deciduous trees are trees that lose all their leaves in winter.

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What is a tree? What is a shrub?

Arbors are woody plants with large tree height, a pronounced and erect trunk, and lush branches. A shrub is a dwarf, clumped tree with no distinct trunk.

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What benefits can the construction of garden cities bring to citizens?

Gardens can not only be used for recreation, but also have the function of protecting and improving the environment. Plants can absorb carbon dioxide, release oxygen, purify the air, absorb harmful gases and adsorb dust to a certain extent, reduce pollution, adjust the temperature and humidity of the air, improve the microclimate, and reduce noise and prevent wind, fire and other protective effects. In extraordinary times, the garden is still a shelter to avoid air raids and wars, and it is also the best place to avoid earthquakes. Of particular importance is the beneficial role of the garden in psychology and spirituality, recreation in the beautiful and quiet garden, help to eliminate the tension and fatigue caused by long hours of work, so that the mental and physical strength can be restored. The cultural, amusement, sports, popular science education and other activities in the garden can enrich knowledge and enrich spiritual life.

With the progress of society, the masses of people have a higher and higher demand for material culture, advocating nature, advocating green, and pursuing high quality of working and living environment.

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What are the functions of landscaping?

Landscaping has the ecological functions of protecting the environment, improving the quality of the environment, purifying the air, regulating the air temperature and humidity, has the psychological functions that are beneficial to physical and mental health, and has the physical functions and use functions of noise prevention and noise reduction, wind and ventilation, soil and water conservation, disaster prevention and disaster resistance.

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Which department is responsible for the approval of the National Garden City?

The competent department of housing and urban-rural development under the State Council is responsible for the review and management of national garden cities.

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When did the National Garden City start?

In 1992, in order to improve the living environment and improve the structure of urban green space, the Ministry of Construction started the creation of "National Garden City", which effectively promoted the development of urban landscaping and significantly improved the quality of the urban environment.

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The significance of creating a national garden city

(1) The creation of a national garden city is a concrete embodiment of the construction and development of ecological civilization. The 18th and 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen the construction of ecological civilization, respect nature, conform to nature, protect nature, and create a national garden city is a concrete embodiment of the implementation of ecological civilization construction.

(2) The creation of a national garden city is a practical need to improve the quality of the city. The creation of a national garden city involves 57 indicators in 8 categories, and the creation is a systematic project, involving planning, ecology, environmental protection, garbage disposal, transportation, building energy conservation, municipal facilities, housing security and other aspects. Urban development requires not only high-rise buildings and economic development speed, but also good urban public facilities and ecological environment. Greening is the "shape" of the city and an important embodiment of the city's taste and image. We should create a national garden city as an important way to enhance the city's taste and charm, increase the construction and management of urban greening, integrate cultural gardens into urban construction, and shape the image of a cultural garden city with Xi'an characteristics.

(3) The creation of a national garden city is the people's growing need for a better life. With the improvement of the material living standards of the people in the city, the general public has put forward higher requirements for the living environment and quality of life. As the only living urban infrastructure, the garden green space system has the irreplaceable effect of other facilities in maintaining the balance of the urban ecosystem and improving the urban appearance, and is an indispensable supporting condition for improving the quality of life of the people. Carrying out the activities of creating a national garden city and strengthening urban greening and environmental protection have conformed to the urgent desire of the people to improve the living environment.

(4) The creation of a national garden city is an important measure to promote economic development. Urban environment is not only an important indicator of a city's comprehensive strength, but also has become one of the important factors affecting urban development. With the development of economy and society, the construction of ecological environment has become an important part of economic and social development. Cities with beautiful environment and complete functions can attract development factors, which means the preservation and appreciation of urban assets, and dirty and poor cities, which are prohibitive, mean the depreciation of urban assets. The creation of a national garden city is an important starting point to promote the accelerated development of Xi'an, accelerate the pace of urban greening, establish a good image of the city, enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of the city, enhance the city's ability to gather talents, capital, technology and other development elements, and attract more businessmen and talents to invest in Xi'an.

Source: Ecological Garden