China News Agency, Beijing, April 18 (Reporter Chen Su) The National Botanical Garden was officially unveiled in Beijing on the 18th.

  The National Botanical Garden is a comprehensive place for ex situ plant protection and scientific research, as well as scientific dissemination, horticultural display and ecological leisure. It is a national plant diversity protection base.

The National Botanical Garden is an iconic national symbol, and it is a common practice in many countries in the world to set up a National Botanical Garden in the capital.

The official opening of the National Botanical Garden in Beijing Photo courtesy: State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing Park Management Center, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  On October 12, 2021, China announced at the 15th COP Leaders Summit of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity that, in line with the principle of combining in situ conservation and ex situ conservation, China will launch Beijing, Guangzhou and other countries. The construction of botanical garden system.

On December 28, 2021, the State Council approved the establishment of a National Botanical Garden in Beijing.

  China is one of the countries with the richest plant diversity in the world. There are more than 37,000 known species of higher plants, accounting for about one tenth of the world's total.

According to reports, the National Botanical Garden is based on the existing conditions of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (South Garden) and the Beijing Botanical Garden (North Garden), through the organic integration of expansion and efficiency, with a total planned area of ​​nearly 600 hectares.

  The National Botanical Garden gives full play to the core functions of plant ex situ conservation and scientific research, focusing on collecting more than 30,000 species of native plants in the Three North Regions, representative plants in the northern temperate zone, representative plants in different geographical regions around the world, and rare and endangered plants, covering 80 species of plants in China. 50% of the families and 50% of the genera, accounting for 10% of the world's plant species; 5 million representative plant specimens from five continents are collected; the Plant Science Research Center, the Ex situ Conservation Research Center, the Germplasm Resources Collection Center, and Herbarium II have been successively completed. Phase, Wuzhou Greenhouse Group and other projects, and build 28 characteristic special gardens.

One picture to understand the "National Botanical Garden" Photo courtesy: State Forestry and Grassland Administration, Beijing Park Management Center, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences

  In addition, the National Botanical Garden will also innovate core technologies such as biodiversity monitoring, vegetation reconstruction and ecological restoration, and intelligent plant factories, build a national garden and horticultural exhibition and popular science education base, improve the scientific literacy of the public, and let all people love and share the beauty of nature. natural beauty.

At the same time, it will also establish cooperative relations with botanical gardens and professional institutions in hundreds of countries, and build an international comprehensive exchange, sharing and cooperation platform.

  The relevant person in charge of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration stated that the establishment of a national botanical garden in Beijing is an important part of China's national botanical garden system. Steadily promote the construction of the national botanical garden system, gradually achieve the goal of ex situ conservation of more than 85% of wild native plants and all key protected wild plant species in China, and form an organic connection and complement each other with the in situ conservation system with national parks as the main body, so as to effectively achieve Full coverage and sustainable utilization of plant diversity protection in China.

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