Beijing Botanical Garden covers an area of 400 hectares is a comprehensive botanical garden that mainly collects, displays and preserves plant resources, and integrates scientific research, scientific popularization, sightseeing and recreation, plant germplasm resource conservation and new superior plant development functions. 

Beijing Botanical Garden Famous Monuments Area consists of the Reclining Buddha Temple, Cherry Gully, Cao Xueqin Memorial Hall, Tomb of Liang Qichao, and the site of Longjiao Temple. The Reclining Buddha Temple was built in the Tang Dynasty and is a national key cultural relic protection unit, containing a bronze statue of Sakyamuni recumbent in the Yuan Dynasty. Cherry Gully is densely wooded and is an important nature conservation education area in the suburbs of Beijing. The Cao Xueqin Memorial Hall shows the life of Cao Xueqin and the scenes of his writing the book Dream of the Red Chamber in the Xishan Mountain.