Hu’nan Provincial Exhibition Park holds Commencement Ceremony to Officially Start Construction

The construction of Hu’nan provincial exhibition park of Beijing Expo 2019 was officially started at 11:18 am on June 12th. Ouyang Huang, deputy secretary-general of the People's Government of Hu’nan Province, Hu Changqing, director of the Provincial Forestry Department, Zhou Jianping, executive deputy director of Beijing World Horticultural Expo Coordination Bureau, and heads of relevant departments of Hu’nan Province and Beijing World Horticultural Expo Coordination Bureau attended the commencement ceremony and laid the foundation for the project.

Taking “In the Peach Garden of Hu’nan” as the theme, the Hu’nan provincial exhibition park of Beijing Expo 2019 aims at guiding visitors to the depth of Hu’nan culture with typical scenery and imagery of Hu’nan like “Dongting Lake”, “Peace Garden”, and “Hibiscus”. The park will adopt traditional methods of gardening. Following the concept of “integrating gardening into the nature and people’s mind”, a series of key points will be connected, including “Rocks of Wuling Mountain”, “Spring of Dongting Lake”, “Dream of Peach Garden”, “Rain of Hu’nan”, “Fields of Ornamental Pepper”, “Source of Happiness”, “Lecture of Zhou Dunyi”, and “Country Life in Hu’nan”. Using change of landscape space and paving materials, diversity of plants atmosphere, and interaction in tourism experience, the design of the park fully considered the climate feature of Yanqing. The problem of the survival of plants caused by the regional difference is solved by selection of best species and manual intervention. In total 160 or so species of plants are chosen for indoor and outdoor exhibition areas to integrate the theme “Live Green, Live Better” into the whole process of the touring.

So far, the design plans of 31 provinces and regions within China have been basically decided and 12 provinces, districts, and cities and Hong Kong SAR have started construction. Other provinces, districts, and cities will start construction soon. Meanwhile, the construction of the Expo Park site and supporting infrastructure is also in full swing. The first-phase and second-phase projects of public landscape are fully promoted. Such core landscapes as Tiantian Hill, Guirui Lake, and so on, have basically completed. Planting of trees and shrubs and small sites of landscapes begin to take shape. The overall layout of the landscape in the park is shaped. The China Pavilion, International Pavilion, Life Experience Pavilion, and other major pavilions have completed roof-sealing. The hidden infrastructure project of integrated underground pipe corridor has been basically completed.