Yili Botanical Garden opened

Tianshan Net News (Reporter Xie Huixuan reported) On June 23, Yili Botanical Garden, located in Almala Township, Xinyuan County officially opened the door to welcome guests.

The corner of Yili Botanical Garden. (The picture is provided by Xinjiang's birthplace)

The reporter learned that the Yili Botanical Garden and the Turpan Desert Botanical Garden were both botanical gardens under the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The Yili Botanical Garden focuses on the collection of plants on the mountains, grasslands, and plains in the arid areas. It has collected more than 1,200 species of various kinds of plants such as conservation wild fruit forests and spruce forests, and nearly 200,000 plants are planted. A complementary and comprehensive plant types of the Turpan Desert Botanical Gardens are complementary and comprehensively covering all ecosystems in the arid areas to achieve the relocation of key species, rare and endangered species, special gene species, medicinal plants, ornamental flowers, and crops, etc. Live conservation base for planting resources.

At present, the Yili Botanical Garden has built a wild fruit tree local conservation area, wild fruit tree relocation conservation area, ornamental flower garden, medicinal botanical garden, fruit tree germination and other specialized parks. The park covers an area of ​​more than 3,000 acres. There are also 16 kilometers of park roads, nearly 3 kilometers of sightseeing wooden planks, more than 2,000 acres of irrigation systems, tourist service centers, tourist pavilions, water storage lakes, etc.

Visitors visit in Yili Botanical Garden. (The picture is provided by Xinjiang's birthplace)

The Yili River Valley where the Yili Botanical Garden is located is one of the key areas of land -type biodiversity protection in China. The ecosystem types in the region are unique, rich in species and genetic resources, and preserved a large number of unique species, precious species, and relics. They are one of the most commonly collected areas in Central Asia. One of the critical areas.

The relevant person in charge of the Xinjiang Institute of Shengjiang, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, stated that Yili Botanical Garden aims to protect biodiversity and create a world -class botanical garden as the goal to strive to build scientific research, plant species conservation, scientific popularization, industrial experimental demonstration, tourism and sightseeing. Comprehensive botanical garden.

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