China News Service, April 18. According to the official website of the State Forestry and Grassland Administration, on April 18, the National Botanical Garden was officially unveiled in Beijing, marking a new chapter in the construction of the National Botanical Garden.

  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.

  The National Botanical Garden is a 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 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 and a national economy, technology, culture, An important symbol of the level of ecological and social sustainable development.

  The establishment of 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 adheres to the concept of national representation and social welfare, and gives full play to the core functions of ex situ conservation and scientific research of plants. More than 30,000 species, covering 80% of the families and 50% of the genera of Chinese plant species, accounting for 10% of the world's plant species; collection of 5 million representative plant specimens from five continents; successive completion of the Plant Science Research Center and the Ex situ Conservation Research Center , Germplasm Resources Preservation Center, Herbarium Phase II, Wuzhou Greenhouse Group and other projects, to build 28 characteristic special gardens.

Facing the frontiers of plant science and major needs such as national ecological civilization construction and biological resource security, major original achievements have been made in the research on the formation mechanism of plant diversity and the response mode of fragile ecosystems to global changes; innovation in biodiversity monitoring, vegetation monitoring, etc. Reconstruction and ecological restoration, intelligent plant factories and other core technologies; build a national garden and horticultural exhibition and popular science education base, improve the science communication system, enhance the public's scientific literacy, and provide the society with high-level plant science education, technical training and healthy recreation services It combines plant display with garden art and traditional culture to achieve the perfect unity of science and aesthetics, so that all people can love and share the beauty of nature, and promote the harmonious development of man and nature.

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.

Efforts will be made to build a world-class national botanical garden with Chinese characteristics.

  The State Forestry and Grassland Administration stated that the establishment of the National Botanical Garden in Beijing is an important part of China's national botanical garden system. , The general idea of ​​step-by-step implementation, "mature one, establish one", steadily promote the construction of the national botanical garden system, and gradually achieve the goal of ex situ protection of more than 85% of wild native plants and all key protected wild plant species in my country. The in situ conservation system as the main body forms an organic connection and complements each other, and effectively realizes the full coverage and sustainable utilization of plant diversity protection in China.