April 19, 2013, the 9th China (Beijing) International Garden Expo booth at the China Domestic Travel Fair debuted in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province. The press conference was held in the afternoon at the Beijing Garden Expo as scheduled.
The China International Garden Expo has remained a construction department and local governments co-sponsored organized event at the highest level of domestic and international garden industries, held every two years. Since 1997, it has been held in Dalian, Nanjing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and eight other cities.
From May 18 to November 18, 2013, the "Garden City, Beautiful Home" slogan of the Ninth China (Beijing) International Garden Expo will be held in Beijing’s Fengtai district’s Yongding River. This is Beijing’s longest and largest national, international event held after the Olympic Games, and will be North China's largest tourist destination in 2013. The Beijing Garden Expo’s history, tradition, modern, creative construction includes the Domestic Garden, the International Exhibition Park and architecture-designed Exhibition Park. At present, the entire country’s 69 cities have constructed 47 exhibition park projects, which have basically completed construction, but are ongoing greening and landscape decoration. 25 countries, 34 cities and 32 international institutions’ buildings and small exhibition parks’ main structures have been completed. The Garden Expo will display a magnificent fine blend of distinctive characteristics of the modern Garden Expo to the majority of tourists, and it is expected that the number of the Garden Expo visitors will reach more than 10 million people.
The Beijing Garden Expo compared to the past, has four highlights: first, it holds the highest degree of importance. Party and state leaders for three consecutive years in the Garden Expo have committed to tree-planting; second, the Garden Expo has the largest, highest level of construction to attract the most social investment. The entire country’s provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government and Hong Kong, Macao SAR and Taiwan are involved in the construction of the gardens, gathering three of the world's leading garden design gurus to be involved in the planning and design of the park; Third, it is a successful model of ecological restoration. Clever use of wasteland for ecological restoration and building of gardens, ecological restoration in the field of construction waste and landfill, and the miraculous, ecological concepts and advanced technologies complement each other; fourth, it has increased tourism value. Beijing Garden Expo built the Garden Expo facilities to become the biggest large-scale comprehensive scenic area following the Olympic Park, the Wanping City Garden Expo, the Marco Polo Bridge, and the Wanping City Yongding River. "All four of the cultural and tourism functional areas will become Beijing’s most important development of regional tourism. The Expo Park will also be a model for eco-tourism, the richest mix of tourism products to attract tourism investment, and most importantly promote tourism consumption.
Beijing Garden Expo’s Main Attractions:
The first is the Chinese National Garden Museum. Is located in the northwest of the Beijing Garden Expo, close to Eagle Mountain, covering an area of 6.5 hectares, and is the first garden-themed national museum. It consists of the indoor exhibition, outdoor exhibition park, the digital garden, heritage exhibition on display, research and advocacy of a long history and brilliant achievements of Chinese gardens, and is in a city with the charm of oriental culture and world-class museums.
The second is the main exhibition hall of the Garden Expo. The main exhibition hall consists of an area of 50,000 square meters, inspired by the Beijing city flower "rose" as the prototype, known as the "source of life". Built in the spiral style, it reflects the vigorous vitality, while the plane and the formation of a "9" signify the main venue of the Ninth Garden Expo. During the exhibition it will serve as an indoor exhibition center, conference center, information center and a reception center.
The third is Yongding Pagoda. Yongding Pagoda is an octagonal nine-story wooden pagoda of the Liao and Jin-style. The pagoda is 69.7 meters high, divided into nine stories, which conveys the meaning of a great long-term stability of the motherland; the pagoda body’s plane is shaped as an octagon, the pagoda courtyard is a positive quadrilateral, representing the Garden Expo to greet visitors from all directions. The Yongding Pagoda has two main functions: the first is to climb tall, so that visitors can have a panoramic view of the Garden Expo and even as far as west of the capital; Yongding River Museum of History and Culture is built to recreate the brilliant history and civilization of the capital’s mother river.
In addition to the core landscape and urban exhibition park, the Garden Expo will hold nearly a thousand cultural activities, such as: the Flower Parade, City Week, daily county performances, fine performances, the Dragon Boat Festival garden party, popular Opera Festival, Music Festival, Yuanbo night tour and so on. In addition, there are plans to develop 26 categories of Garden Expo tourism commodities, totaling 1,500. These will demonstrate to the majority of tourists a colorful, memorable, and unique garden event.
Currently, the following travel agency companies have been approved: Travel Service Co., Ltd. Beijing Huaxia Bank, Tang International Travel Service Co., Ltd., China Women Travel Service, Beijing World Tongda International Travel Company, Hunan affinity Travel International Travel Service Co., Ltd., Beijing, Kay International Travel Co., Ltd., Guangxi Nanning Hengsheng International Travel Service Co., Ltd., Beijing Xinhua International Tourism Co., Ltd., Beijing Sunshine oasis International Travel Service, Beijing Delong travel Service Co., Ltd. A total of 10 designated travel agencies of the Beijing Garden Expo will help tourists from all over the country enter the Garden Expo, understanding China's cultural gardens.
The Beijing Garden Expo has been set up in Beijing and every part of the country has cooperated with it, so I believe it will become a tourism hotspot in China in 2013.
