World Horticultural Expo Park

The World Horticultural Exposition Garden (Expo Garden) is the main site of the 1999 Kunming World Horticultural Exposition. It is a world-class garden with Chinese characteristics and Yunnan local characteristics. The World Horticultural Expo Park is mainly composed of 5 pavilions, 6 thematic pavilions, 34 domestic pavilions and 33 international pavilions. The central square, amusement park, landmark tower, Garden Avenue and other scenic spots in the Expo Garden are in contrast. Being in the garden is like stepping into a world of flowers and a green ocean.

World Horticultural Expo Park

The Expo Garden is the exhibition base of Kunming World Horticultural Exposition and the demonstration site of national civilized scenic spot. It is located in the Northeast suburb of Kunming, 6 kilometers away from the urban area, and gathers horticultural achievements from all over the world. It includes China Pavilion, International Pavilion, human and nature Pavilion, science and Technology Museum, big greenhouse, 34 domestic exhibition areas in China, 30 foreign exhibition areas, as well as theme park, enterprise exhibition area and many other landscapes.

Brief introduction of the park

The World Horticultural Expo Park is located in the Jindian scenic spot in the Northeast suburb of Kunming City, about 4 kilometers away from Kunming city. It turned out to be a beautiful place

After being selected as the venue, a series of modern and unique exhibition gardens and pavilions were built. The Expo Park covers an area of about 218 hectares, with a vegetation coverage rate of 76.7%. Among them, there are 120 hectares of shrubbery and dense gentle slopes, with water surface accounting for 10% - 15%. It is a good place for nothing. Combining with the characteristics of the terrain, the meeting site is located on the hillside and in a colorful group structure. Through the axis organization and space creation, the functional areas are relatively concentrated and the obvious guiding space is created. The garden and horticulture with various styles are combined with the characteristics of modern architecture and Chinese environment.

A total of 94 countries and international organizations have built their own special exhibition parks here, and many provinces and cities in China have built exhibition places that can reflect the local garden art. It can be said that this is a super large-scale exhibition place that gathers the horticultural scenery of the whole world. Of course, it is the most famous scenic spot in Kunming, and tourists must visit it here.

The Expo mainly includes the following pavilions and exhibition areas. First, indoor pavilions: China Pavilion, people and nature Pavilion, greenhouse, science and technology rapid development and International Pavilion. 2、 Outdoor exhibition area: Theme Exhibition Park built by 94 countries and international organizations, as well as China's provinces and regions. At present, the Expo is the largest international Park in Southeast Asia.

The park mainly includes five pavilions: China Pavilion, International Pavilion, human and nature Pavilion, science and Technology Pavilion and greenhouse; six thematic pavilions: bamboo garden, vegetable, melon and fruit garden, herb garden, bonsai garden, arboretum and tea garden; three outdoor pavilions: domestic outdoor pavilions, international outdoor pavilions and enterprise outdoor pavilions. The architectural art and sculpture art in the park are integrated into one, together with various precious plants in and outside the pavilions of various countries, and the decoration of flowers sets off the world expo garden in a more colorful, dazzling and perfect way, fully reflecting the theme of harmonious development between man and nature.

History of the park

In 1999, a large-scale international horticultural exposition was held in Kunming. The exposition is an AI professional exposition approved and officially registered by BIE and aioh. The Expo officially opened on May 1, 1999, closed on October 30, and ended on October 30, 1999, lasting 184 days. After the meeting, it will be established as the World Horticultural Expo Garden.

Kunming Expo Park has created a record of 9.43 million visitors during the exhibition period. However, after the exhibition, the park has only about 2000 tourists a day in the off-season. Covering an area of 218 hectares, the Expo has 2500 plant species and 77 parks. The park employs more than 2000 people at the most, using more than 30000 kwh of electricity every day. It costs 1.75 million yuan to replace all the 500000 pots of flowers on Huayuan Avenue once, six times a year. The annual management cost of the whole Expo Park will be over 100 million yuan.

In March 2000, the Yunnan provincial government reorganized the World Expo Bureau, which is the government's function, into the Yunnan World Expo Group Corporation, with 14 branches. The whole world expo site and all supporting facilities were transformed into the World Expo Group Corporation. The group company began to restructure the former management company of the Expo Park, and jointly initiated the establishment of Kunming Expo Park Co., Ltd. with other enterprises to operate the Expo park according to the modern enterprise system. With the withdrawal of the government and the appearance of enterprises, the new operators have called out the slogan of "Expo 99, permanent Expo Garden" and are determined to transform the Expo Garden from exhibition function type to market tourism operation type.

Enterprise positioning, cost management, contract system, incentive mechanism, training mechanism and enterprise management system have entered the Expo Park. After several redundancies, the implementation of the full labor contract system and the employment mechanism of one person with many posts and one specialty with many abilities, the Expo Park has become slim and relaxed. The park has newly built "famous garden road", "night view project", "world famous flower art stone garden", "dynamic film", "water curtain film", "Art Square", "music fountain" and so on; opened the "Expo Garden - Jinbo cableway - Jindian park two tours a day" tourist route; for night view tour, the Expo Garden cancelled the ticket sales of Art Square evening performance, and implemented one vote Tourists with local ID card can also enjoy a 30 yuan ticket discount.

In July 2007, the Expo Park launched the summer tour activity of "beautiful scenery everywhere, festival every day and laughter at all times". From July 15 to August 10, a series of activities of water splashing festival will be held in Thailand garden, an international outdoor exhibition area. The dancing of Dai girls, the mystery of Dai marriage and the special ceremony of water splashing blessing will surely make every day visitors immersed in the joy of the festival On September 20, the first international happy wine tasting festival of Kunming World Expo was held as scheduled.

The Expo Park has won the title of national civilized scenic spot demonstration site and the first batch of 4A grade tourist area evaluated by the state. With tourists as the center and market as the guide, we should grasp one key point of Expo brand, create a bright spot and form a selling point, which will be gradually recognized by the market and tourists.

Main attractions

The Expo Park is mainly composed of 5 pavilions, 6 thematic pavilions, 34 domestic pavilions and 33 international pavilions. It includes bamboo garden, herb garden, vegetable and melon garden, tree garden, tea garden, bonsai garden, famous flower and jade garden, etc.

Bamboo Garden

It is located in the southeast of Yantang reservoir in the Expo Garden, covering an area of 17000 square meters. The terrain is long and narrow, with mountains and water. More than 4000 clumps of 222 species belonging to 28 genera were collected. There are more than 30 kinds of ornamental bamboos, such as Qiongzhu, huangjinjian Biyu, dafudu, Dianzhu, kuzhu, chair bamboo, and more than 50 kinds of rare and endangered bamboos, such as Tiezhu, zhenma, Gongshan, Ligeng, cilongzhu, Zhongdian Fargesia, forming an environmental atmosphere of "sunshine has clear shade, moon has clear shadow, wind has clear sound, and rain has clear rhyme". The bamboo garden is also decorated with bamboo rafts, red sand stone benches, inductive giant pandas, bamboo palace lanterns and butterfly spring.

Vegetable and melon orchards

It covers an area of 4200 square meters. The theme is "vegetables, melons and fruits are important food sources for human survival". It mainly shows people China's agricultural development, develops China's rich and colorful varieties of vegetables, melons and fruits, and advocates wild vegetables and fruits without side effects, chemical fertilizers and pesticides. With the development of science and technology, especially bioengineering, in addition to the traditional edible value, vegetables and fruits also add a function ornamental. When you enter the vegetable and melon orchard, you will find that true. The exhibition mode of vegetable and melon orchards is mainly outdoor living cultivation, taking into account physical products and specimen models. A treasure house of resources living garden cultivation exhibition. The specific types on display are: Vegetables (about 85 varieties), fruit trees (about 99 varieties) and melons (about 20 varieties). Reappear brilliance -- display. Through the display and publicity of vegetable, melon and fruit products, specimen models, pictures and text materials, people can better understand the historical origin of human and vegetable, melon and fruit horticultural culture, advocate green food, pollution-free food and promote the development of famous and special products. Oasis of wisdom -- the rudiment of specialized and intensive production. The "model" of intensive production of celery and dwarf apple was mainly used to show the scientific and technological level of vegetable and fruit tree production in China.

Mini-Scape Garden

It is located in the south of garden avenue of Expo Garden, covering an area of 5880 square meters. Three exhibition halls and a group of corridors form the background of the main building in the garden, and the combined stone pavilion forms the cast landscape facade of the basin landscape garden with a calm and beautiful image. The external image is composed of three square pavilions and corridors with trapezoidal roof on four slopes. The slope surface is made of Magnolia tiles, red walls and white jade cornices, which is the architectural image with oriental style.

tea garden

It is located on the slope between the main road and No.2 road in the middle of the Expo Park, facing the cliff landscape in the south, covering an area of 11000 square meters. Because it is located between the two main roads and the high terrain, it will not only display the characteristics of tea culture, but also become a good place for tourists to stop and enjoy tea. A "boutique garden" will be set up in the northwest of the city to display the boutique tea plants at home and abroad. The construction of tea garden mainly includes tea culture exhibition hall, tea art performance room and tea tasting hall. Tea culture exhibition hall. The exhibition includes the beginning of tea

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