【Xinhua】Renovated greenhouse of Beijing botanic garden to reopen
2019/4/10 16:30:00 中国科学院植物研究所

     BEIJING,April 8 (Xinhua) -- The greenhouse of the Beijing Botanic Garden run by theInstitute of Botany under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) will reopen tothe public Wednesday after a massive renovation since late 2017.

     The renovation has greatly enhanced the capacity of the gardenin conserving and displaying floral diversity, said Wang Yingwei, executivedirector of the CAS Beijing Botanic Garden.

     The greenhouse now has more than 2,000 kinds of tropical andsubtropical plants.

     After its reopening, visitors will have the chance to see rareplants from countries along the Belt and Road, such as the baobab tree andpapyrus. They will also be able to appreciate the water lily flowers in thefreezing winter in the north, according to Wang.

     Built in the 1950s, the greenhouse is the first in New Chinatailored to house tropical and subtropical plants. Some of the plants were giftsfrom foreign leaders, but more are collected by scientists from overseas.

     A section of the old greenhouse were preserved as the showroomof insectivorous plants with a high humidity environment.

     Founded in 1956, the Beijing Botanical Garden was constructedjointly by the CAS and the Beijing municipal government. The northern sectionof the garden is run by the Beijing municipal government and the southernsection by the CAS Institute of Botany.

     The CAS section of the botanical garden covers 74 hectares.Besides the greenhouse, it also homes 15 specified gardens, collecting morethan 7,000 kinds of plants in total. Enditem

     (来源：新华社。如有版权问题，请联系：010-62590835，suoban@ibcas.ac.cn)

    

    

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