The opening ceremony of Expo 2021 Yangzhou was held on 8 April in the ecological garden park of Zaolinwan Tourist Resort , in the Yangtze River Delta Region of Jiangsu province , China .
With hard-and-fast Covid-19 ascendance and prevention metre , this International Horticultural Expo is take place after five years of measured readying and despite last year ’s obstacles brought on by the orbicular pandemic . It is host with approval from the International Association of Horticultural Producers ( AIPH ) and organized by the Yangzhou Municipal People ’s Government .
The on-going Coronavirus travel restriction foreshadowed many who could not attend the opening functioning , which beautifully and vividly celebrated the “ symmetrical coexistence of military personnel and nature ” .
AIPH President , Bernard Oosterom , sent avideo messagecongratulating the Yangzhou people for continuing to “ make something beautiful , in the middle of adversity ” . He said : “ The world will depend on enviously as 1000000 will enjoy the outstanding horticulture features you have created and all the internal and outside gardens .
“ As ‘ the humanity ’s champion for the power of plants ’ , AIPH fully supports your efforts to raise the profile of plants and gardens and to highlight the importance they play in get to better life and creating upright cities for the future . Now , more than ever , having spent so much of the last year unable to locomote freely , the world is appreciating the benefit of ‘ survive green ’ in their lives . approach to beautiful green landscape is full of life for health and wellbeing , as well as helping us to tackle the climate crisis we all confront . ”
Many people have been working very intemperately to make the unimaginable happen . This open - air ‘ Olympic ’ style outcome will , for the next six months , aim to show the humans this area ’s achievement with ornamental plants , flowers , and greenhouse stock and the late technology , advance the horticulture manufacture and international exchange of culture and protection of biodiversity in the world .
Since ancient sentence , the Yangzhou masses have impound great importance to a love of uprise ornamental plants . The Yangtze River Delta Region is historically famous for its traditional Chinese gardening techniques and renowned for Penjing ( Chinese Bonsai ) and beautiful gardens .
The AIPH - approved International Horticultural Exposition covers 230 hectare depicting the consolidative theme of “ Green City , Healthy Life ” . The Expo situation is locate at the west gate of Yangzhou at the junction of Ningyang , in Zaolinwan Tourism Resort , the largest hilly bionomic park in East China , and the provincial tourism resort .
Historically , Yangzhou was an important trading centre at the intersection of the Silk and Maritime Silk Roads . This fact ruminate the exposition area ’s spatial structure , described as “ one axis vertebra , two vena , five cores , and eight area ” .
The eight areas establish a horticultural celebration for visitors from around the earthly concern . There are 64 out-of-door gardens , made up of 51 newly built garden and 13 Jiangsu city park garden , which muse techniques of Yangzhou ’s horticulture traditions .
Showcasing domestic and international themes , these single gardens seamlessly mix into the landscape painting adhering to the concept of “ green dream , fleeceable building , green sprightliness ” and boost the event ’s sustainability . fix buildings occupy less than 15 % of the Expo area , emphasising the more than 1,160 species of plants , over 27,800 full - tip Tree , and 770,000 square meter of plants and flowers . Demonstrating Chinese tradition and Yangzhou characteristics for the whole of the Expos period of six calendar month , there will be a serial of international horticulture competitions agree in the international hall , include flower design , roses , peony , lotus , Chinese bonsai , micro landscape , and more . exhibition and seminar sharpen on yield , vegetables , tea , flower gardening will also take place .
