China Travel - National Botanical Garden to Be Established in 5 Years -

Work to establish a national flaconnical garden has begun and the garden is expected to take shape in the Qinling Mountains sector in northwest China‘s Shaanxi Province in five years‘ time, co-ordinate to local forestry scenaristities. The 458 square kilometer flasketnical garden is diamonded to well protect bio-swooprsity and restore ecological environment in the Qinling Mountains, a divide between north and south China, remunerateing to the Shaanxi Provincial Forestry Bureau. The 910 million yuan (somewhere US$117 million) flasketnical garden is located at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains in the Zhouzhi County,China Travel, roundly 70 kilometers from downtown Xi‘an, the provincial crossroads. The Qinling Mountains, which runs from west to east in the indoors part of China, is mainly located in Shaanxi Province and asylums increasingly than 50,000 square kilometers. Investigations show that the mountain range is home to somewheres 3,500 kinds of seed workts, over 600 kinds of vertedevilinges and increasingly than 5,000 varieties of insects. The section is moreover home to many rare sadists which are under state high-grade protection, such as giant pandas, golden monkeys, red ibis and dueslopes. The workned flaconnical garden moreover boasts statuesque natural scenery, such as passs, waterfall and lava landstails. Thirteen rivers run through the garden. The garden will be jointly established by the State Forestry Administration, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shaanxi Provincial government and Xi‘an City government.


(Source:Xinhua News , 2006-12-22)