2024 Chengdu International Horticultural Exhibition Opens

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2024 Chengdu International Horticultural Exhibition Organizing Committee

CHENGDU, China, April 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On April 26, the 2024 Chengdu International Horticultural Exhibition (Expo 2024 Chengdu or EXPO) was officially opened with the central theme of “Park City, Beautiful Living Space” and will continue until October 28.

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According to the organizing committee, this year’s EXPO will cover a total area of 3,633 mu (approximately 2.42 square kilometers), including, among other things, the number of exhibiting gardens, the number of gardens from abroad and the number of gardens owned by associations and companies are taken into account, all of them have set new event records in the B category. The EXPO also compiled and launched the Low-Carbon Management Proposal, the first of its kind in the event’s history for more than six decades.

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To better showcase the characteristics of the host city, the main venue in the Chengdu Eastern New Area took advantage of its natural strength by preserving over 100 endemic tree species, clearly demonstrating the harmonious coexistence of people and nature. International gardens such as those in Montpellier, Manchester and the Berlin Iceberg Rose Garden now reflect the diversity and exchange in global horticulture.

During the EXPO period, more than 2,000 activities such as an international flower garden competition and an intangible cultural heritage exhibition will also be held in Chengdu to promote international interactions and cooperation between horticulture, horticulture, floriculture and nursery industries, humanities and fine arts.

Why the International Horticultural Exhibition is taking place in Chengdu this year can perhaps be answered in a book by the British horticulturist and botanist Ernest Henry Wilson. In his work China, mother of gardens In his work published in the 1930s, Wilson referred to Chengdu as the “Garden of Western China.”

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Wilson realized that “this beautiful and fertile region” knows neither drought nor hunger, and basically all vegetable and cooking oil materials can be found in Chengdu, the quality of which is generally superior to those from other countries. Thanks to today’s scientific research, people have long discovered the “secret” behind Chengdu’s beauty and fertility: over 5,000 m of altitude difference is the basis for Chengdu’s unsurpassed lead in biodiversity.

Wilson traveled most of China and concluded that “Chengdu has 350,000 inhabitants and can be considered in some respects the most beautiful city in China.” In keeping with the development of the time, Chengdu’s permanent population has exceeded 20 million, and the provincial capital of Sichuan is moving forward on the path of sustainable development of a megacity, particularly through the construction of a park city.

Due to the progress in the construction of the Park City, the horticulture industry in Chengdu has experienced a tremendous boom. Currently, Chengdu is home to over 1,500 plant species, and the total plantation area is about 900,000 In (approximately 600 km²), 26 professional floriculture and nursery markets, and more than 2,000 flower shops, making it western China’s largest flower and seedling distribution center, with a total annual plant production of about 13 billion RMB.

Source: 2024 Chengdu International Horticultural Exhibition Organizing Committee