South China National Botanical Garden officially unveiled Guangzhou Xinjin heavyweight "green business card"

South China National Botanical Garden officially unveiled yesterday

Yangcheng Evening News all -media reporter Li Gang Liu Zhuonan

On the morning of July 11, the South China National Botanical Garden was unveiled in Guangzhou. At this point, the South China Botanical Garden, together with the (Beijing) National Botanical Garden unveiled in April this year, has built two major national botanical gardens, marking a solid step towards the construction of the national botanical garden system.

Five parties to build a South China National Botanical Garden

On October 12, 2021, China announced at the Fifteenth Conference Leader Summit of the Convention on the Biological Diversity: "In accordance with the principles of combining coordinated and local protection and relocation protection, it launched Beijing, Guangzhou and other countries such as Beijing, Guangzhou and other countries. Botanical Garden System Construction ". On May 30, 2022, the State Council formally approved the establishment of a South China Botanical Garden in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province.

It is understood that the function of the national botanical garden will mainly include: plant relocation, scientific research, scientific communication, resource development and utilization, public recreation, etc. It will assume the loss of planting the world and national plant species and its genetic diversity, focusing on preventing further degradation of the natural environment, so that the public recognizes the value of plant diversity and the threats they face, and improve the natural environment with practical actions. Strive to achieve the sustainable use of the world and the country's natural resources.

Establishing a national botanical garden system with relocation protection as the core is another major measure to promote ecological civilization and beautiful Chinese construction after establishing a natural protection land system with national parks as the main body. China is one of the most abundant countries in the world. There are more than 37,000 high -profile plants, accounting for about one -tenth of the world. Establishing a national botanical garden system can systematically collect and complete wild plant groups, maintain plant diversity, and sustain human beings.

There are both advantages and necessity in Guangzhou

From the perspective of relevant experts, Guangzhou's natural conditions are superior, and the construction of a national botanical garden in Guangzhou has both advantages and necessity. Guangzhou is a rare city in China with a variety of terrain, water, cities, fields, lakes, and sea in large cities in China, and it is warm and rainy all year round. During the same period of water and heat, it provides favorable conditions for plant growth. At the same time, Guangzhou is one of the 34 biological hotspots in the world. It is a rare green pearl on the Tropic of Cancer. It is the core distribution area of ​​the most representative monsoon evergreen broad -leaved forest in my country. The most abundant area of ​​plant resources.

From the perspective of urban characteristics, Guangzhou has more than 2,200 years of building a city. Lingnan culture has a long history, and Guangzhou is the birthplace of Lingnan Garden, one of the three major gardens genres in China. It is known as Huacheng and has the reputation of Millennium Huacheng. Guangzhou is still an important domestic flower production and transaction distribution center.

The South China Botanical Garden, located in the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Guangzhou, ranked first in the country. It was formerly the Institute of Agriculture and Forestry and Botanical, National Sun Yat -sen University. In 1929, it was founded by Academician Chen Huanzheng, a famous botanist. Essence South China National Botanical Garden is committed to plant conservation, scientific research and knowledge dissemination in global tropical subtropical regions. Its disciplines in botany, ecology, and agronomy are ranked among the top 1%of the world.

Create a world -class comprehensive botanical garden

Zhou Zhihua, Deputy Director of the Division of the Division and Plant Department of the State Forestry Bureau, said that the South China National Botanical Garden will be built into a comprehensive system collection of wild plants in Asian tropical and tropical areas, producing the world's leading scientific research results, strengthening international cooperation and exchanges, and providing the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area and even the whole country. High -quality popular science resources and leisure services, showing the world -class comprehensive botanical garden with beautiful garden landscapes in Lingnan.

中科院华南植物园主任任海在接受羊城晚报全媒体记者采访时表示，华南国家植物园的定位是从事热带亚热带植物的保护、科研、科普和利用四大功能，并在植物物种迁地保护、科学研究、 The development and utilization of science education, the development and utilization of plant resources, the appearance of garden views, and the management operation system and mechanisms are upgraded.

According to the reporter's understanding, the total planned area of ​​the South China Botanical Garden is 319 hectares, and the scientific research areas, specialized exhibition areas and technology promotion platforms are coordinated. The scientific research area is mainly scientific research and resource research and development; the specialized display area is mainly based on the collection of protection, garden culture and gardening technology display, and science popularization education. Bird language flowers and peak circuits "Lingnan garden characteristics; the technical promotion platform is mainly to screen economic plant promotion and application, serving regional economic and social development and ecological civilization construction.

The planning and construction of the South China National Botanical Garden takes the protection of the relocation of plant resources in the global tropical subtropical region in South China, and builds the national rare and endangered plant relocation conservation centers and the germ resources resource library to improve the protection capacity and efficiency of plant relocation, realize species conservation of species conservation More than 20,000 species, including 6,000 economic plants, and 95%of the rare and endangered plants in South China have been conservation; the construction of plant diversity protection and utilization experimental platforms to improve the ability of plant science research With ecological civilization demonstration bases, build a smart botanical garden, improve education courses with the characteristics of botanical gardens, etc., and improve the ability of plant science popularization education; build a cultural characteristics of Lingnan gardens, international first -class special gardens and characteristic plant exhibition areas, explore the integration with international standards and meet national conditions. The national botanical garden management and operation mechanism, comprehensively improve the comprehensive conditions of the park, and strive to build a demonstration and leading regional national botanical garden. Bring a strong motivation for the construction of ecological civilization in South China

Stephen Blackmo, chairman of the International Botanical Garden Protection Alliance and former director of the Royal Edinburgh Botanical Garden, said that the South China Botanical Garden with a long history has built an international and high -level important scientific highlands in the field of gardening, classification, and plant resources. The South China Botanical Garden will become an important part of the National Botanical Garden system in China.

Yang Hongyi, deputy director of the Urban Construction Department of the Ministry of Housing and Urban -Rural Development, said that the construction of the South China National Botanical Garden will bring a strong motivation for the construction of ecological civilization in Guangzhou, Guangdong, and South China, and the high -quality development of the city. Get close to nature and feel the important place for garden culture to establish a scientific concept.

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