Beijing International Horticultural Exhibition has attracted numerous visitors since its opening on April 29. Follow the map to plan your route.
Prime Itinerary
No.6 Gate——Botany Pavilion——China Pavilion——International Pavilion (with an estimated travel time of one hour and 50 minutes)
Love Home, Love Horticulture
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No.1 Gate——BCDH Garden——Botany Pavilion——China Pavilion——Gansu Garden——International Pavilion——Singapore Garden——Living Experience Pavilion (with an estimated travel time of two hours)
Refreshing Horticultural Trip
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No.1 Gate——Gansu Garden——China Pavilion——International Pavilion——Joint Pavilion of Pacific Island Countries——Living Experience Pavilion (with an estimated travel time of two hours and 10 minutes)
Trip to Explore Horticulture
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No.1 Gate——Botany Pavilion——China Pavilion——International Pavilion——Life Experience Pavilion (within an estimated travel time of two hours)
Highlights:
No.1 Gate
No.1 Gate, themed on “rites and music,” features a main structure that is 90 meters wide and 12 meters tall. The rite and music culture has penetrated through the millennia-old history of Chinese civilization. Throughout history, rites and music have been used to enlighten people. Music may inspire one to seek self-improvement and understand the law of nature. Rites can make one modest, polite, majestic and orderly. The gate themed on “rites and music” demonstrates China’s grandeur as a great nation of ceremonies and decorum.
China Pavilion
Centered as the landmark of 2019 Beijing International Horticultural Exhibition, the China Pavilion takes inspiration from Ruyi, a traditional Chinese jade ornament symbolizing good fortune, with the imagery of gliding along green meadows and rivers. Taking up a floor area of 23,000 square meters, China Pavilion will display a wide variety of plant species from across China and showcase the history of Chinese gardening and horticulture. The design of the Chinese Pavilion echoes the expo's theme "live green, live better." With most of its earth-sheltered structure embedded in man-made terrace fields, both heat and humidity will be well preserved to save energy.
Botany Pavilion
The Botany Pavilion, also called “Kaleidoscope”, covers an area of about 10,000 square meters. With the concept of “Rising Horizon”, the building is designed like huge vertical roots system spreading downward, demonstrating an amazing "kingdom of botany" to visitors.
The Botany Pavilion is divided into three storeys. The first floor is for tropical greenhouse, which covers an area of about 3,000 square meters and houses more than 600 precious plants. Mangrove forest, tropical rainforest, palm, pulpy plants, ferns, insectivorous plants, moss and others are on display in 12 scenic spots of 5 exhibition areas. The green multi-functional lecture hall sits on the second floor, offering theme exhibitions on mangrove forest, plant science, etc. The roof observation platform equipped with CITIC plant-themed coffee bookstore and souvenir shops, presenting a pleasing outlook of the Guihe River, Haituo Mount, Tiantian Mount and other scenic spots in Beijing Expo 2019.
International Pavilion
The International Pavilion serves as an indoor exhibition venue for participating countries, regions and horticultural organizations in the international arena. Covering a total construction area of 22,000 square meters, indoor exhibitions and plant competitions unfold at the Pavilion.
Featuring a sea of flowers and zigzagging streams, blossoms are weaved into 94 umbrellas to create a sea of flowers. This floral ocean opens up as an enormous sunshade, shielding the area from the summer heat to provide a pleasant recreational area.
When night falls, the floodlights on the umbrella leaves will create a colorful night scene for the stadium. With its striking feature of 94 steel-structure flower umbrellas, the International Pavilion blends harmoniously into the scenery along the Guihe River.
The Life Experience Pavilion
The Life Experience Pavilion will provide visitors with a beautiful pastoral market to experience a modern and civilized lifestyle, and feel the joy of Chinese traditional horticultural culture and horticultural innovation. Themed “Sowing,” “Growth,” “Irrigation,” and “Harvest,” it is built with a group of open-space buildings and enchant visitors with the beauty of nature and country life. Wheat are planted at the entrance of the pavilion so that visitors can see the crops as they grow.
Covering a building area of 21,000 square meters, the Life Experience Pavilion is comprised of seven exhibition areas such as main exhibition hall, creativity release hall, crowdfunding life hall, etc. Some unique exhibits will enlighten visitors about traditional Chinese horticultural practices and medicines.
BCDH Garden
The building in the Garden of Beijing Capital Development Holding (Group) Co., Ltd. features red, garbled patterns, and through skillful arrangement of such patterns, it creates an architectural design resembling an “unfolding brochure.”
The garden in the rear combines natural terrains and artificial vegetation, and creates an enclosed, private “mountain forest.” Trimmed pines and geometric topography integrate with each other, demonstrating a collision between traditional gardening and modern landscaping. There is also an interactive fountain where children can dance with sprouting water, and a display of the sponge system. Visitors can learn popular science while enjoying landscapes.
Gansu Garden
The Gansu Garden of Beijing Expo 2019 represents the symbols of Dunhuang culture, such as “an apsara playing the pipa behind her back” and “the nine-floored building of Mogao Grottoes”, by using artistic means to show the colorful and gorgeous picture of the Silk Road.
The overall design and layout of the Gansu Garden is simple and graceful. It can be divided into one screen and two courtyards. One screen refers to the Mogao Scenery Screen, inspired by the nine-floored building of Mogao Grottoes which symbolizesnine heavens - showing the painstaking efforts and the indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation.
Singapore Garden
The overall design of the Singapore Garden is a large greenhouse, which mainly showcases tropical orchids with distinctive features．The garden is divided into several functional areas，including “Orchid Tour”, “Origin of Orchid”, “Orchid Education” and “Little Red Spot”．Coconut trees, orchidspecimens, top orchids, red water lilies and freshwater wetland plants are displayed. Various animal models and animal footprints can be seen in the garden where children can discover and record the animals found according to various clues and participate in the competition．
Joint Pavilion of Pacific Island Countries
The Joint Pavilion of the Pacific Islands is called “Pearls Sprinkled on the Pacific Ocean”．The design aims at displaying the beautiful regional features and vegetation’s ecological environment of the Pacific region, introducing the local horticultural features and humanistic features, and promoting the concept of marine environmental protection. In order to highlight the vegetation characteristics and ecological vegetation growth environment, the garden takes the “pearl” melting and inclusive form as its design idea, combines the characteristics of vegetation, irregular shape of islands and multi－faceted streamlines of oceans, and embodies the concept of “harmonious development of oceans, islands and human beings,”．
