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HARMONY BETWEEN MAN AND NATUR So many people worked so hard over five years to make Expo 2021 Yangzhou happen. Despite making the unimaginable materialise and bringing success
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to the event, the closing formality of this Expo on 8 October was online.
Expo 2021 Yangzhou opening ceremony on 8 April.
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he Expo organisers - National Forestry and Grassland Administration, China Flower Association and Jiangsu Provincial Government – had overcome the difficulties and challenges brought on by Coronavirus. Despite the final disruption, this major international horticultural Expo was successful from 8 April for six months. Expo 2021 Yangzhou was approved by the International Association of Horticultural Producers (AIPH). It was held in the ecological garden park of Zaolinwan Tourist Resort, in the Yangtze River Delta Region of Jiangsu province, of China.
DEMONSTRATING THE RICH HORTICULTURAL HISTORY SAFELY The Yangtze River Delta Region is historically famous for its traditional Chinese gardening techniques and renowned for Penjing (Chinese Bonsai) and beautiful
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gardens. Since ancient times, the Yangzhou people have attached great importance to a love of growing ornamental plants. Expo 2021 Yangzhou’s theme was ‘green city, health life’, and this sentiment permeated the Expo with over a thousand educational and sensory activities for all visitors. Innovative technology played a huge part in tracking and keeping the daily 55,000 visitors safe, with a team of more than 600 volunteers on site. The Expo demonstrated the area’s rich cultivating history, spanning 230 hectares in the Yangtze River Delta Region, arranged to showcase horticulture from five continents of the world, six regions of China and Jiangsu. It contained 1,500 plant species, 27,800 fullcrown trees and 770,000-metre squares of low shrubs, all harmoniously arranged. The flower borders were regularly maintained and innovatively changed for each season – spring, summer, and autumn.
