Preparations for the Beijing Expo Have Entered the Final Decisive Stage

The International Horticultural Exhibition 2019 Beijing China (hereinafter referred to as the Beijing Expo 2019) is the world first-class horticultural expo approved by the International Association of Horticultural Producers (IAHP), recognized by the International Exhibitions Bureau, hosted by the Chinese government and undertaken by the Beijing Municipality. It’ll be held from April 29 to October 7 in Yanqing District, Beijing, next year. At present, the preparations for the Beijing Expo 2019 have entered the final decisive stage, and it is expected to become an international horticultural expo with the largest exhibition scale, the most exhibitors and the widest influence.

Reflecting the harmonious symbiosis between man and nature, the Beijing Expo is an international stage to show the new achievements of China’s ecological civilization and promote international exchanges and cooperation

The construction of ecological civilization is related to the future of mankind. Building a green home is the common dream of mankind. China has become an important participant, contributor and leader in the construction of global ecological civilization. The Beijing Expo is an important measure to implement Xi Jinping’s thought of ecological civilization, an important opportunity to develop the concept of green development, and promote the transformation of economic development modes and residents’ lifestyles, and also vivid practice for building beautiful China. With the theme of “Live Green, Live Better” and the sub-themes “Green Development, Gardening in Life, Fusion and Blooming, Education and Future, and Home of Mind”, the Beijing Expo advocates harmony between man and nature, promotes multicultural integration and demonstrates the common dream and pursuit of human beings to build a green home, which has been widely recognized by the international community. Up to now, 86 countries and 24 international organizations including UNESCO and the World Meteorological Organization have confirmed their participation in the Beijing Expo. More than 120 unofficial exhibitors from 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, relevant enterprises and scientific research institutions confirmed their participation. They exceeded the original invitation goal of “Double Hundred” and created a record of the A1 world expo with the most international exhibitors.

The construction of the exhibition gardens has accelerated. 80 countries and international organizations will participate in outdoor exhibitions and it’s planned to build 41 outdoor exhibition gardens. It is expected that the construction of all exhibition gardens will be completed by the end of March next year. The international exhibition gardens have their own characteristics. There is architectural gardening, which shows the colorful horticultural culture and lifestyle, technology gardening that expresses modern horticultural techniques and development achievements, traditional gardening that returns to the original nature and emphasizes the pastoral nature, featured gardening that reflects historical art and tourism culture and comprehensive gardening that exhibits the humanistic landscape characteristics of regional countries in a centralized manner. In addition, in order to fulfill the commitment of holding the expo and ensure the smooth participation of exhibitors at home and abroad, the Beijing Expo will set up an exhibition service center to provide centralized and efficient “one-stop” service, fully demonstrating Beijing’s service level and ability as an international exchange center.

Gathering global horticultural essence, the Beijing Expo will build an important platform for bringing together new and quality products of world-class plants and telling stories about Chinese gardening

The Beijing Expo will exhibit flowers, fruit trees, vegetables, Chinese herbal medicines, tea, coffee and many other contents from the perspective of whole industry chain, such as production, circulation and consumption. Visitors can see more than 1,200 varieties of Chinese-style flowers, native flowers, and new and quality self-cultivated flowers, including more than 20 kinds of wild flowers such as rupestrine dragonhead herb, more than 40 kinds of traditional famous flowers such as peony, more than 40 kinds of independent intellectual property flowers, more than 40 foreign new varieties such as sticktight, etc. Through cultivation and promotion, it will provide high-quality products for beautifying the urban environment, decorating people’s homes and improving the quality of life.

At the same time, the Beijing Expo’s Garden of Hundreds of Fruits highlights the “new and quality products” and creates a landscape-style exhibition garden that brings together new and quality varieties, technologies and cultural science functions. The Garden of Hundreds of Vegetables highlights “freshness”, exhibits all kinds of vegetables with different tastes and various shapes and forms a special leisure experience garden. The Garden of Hundreds of Herbs highlights “inheritance” and guides visitors to perceive the development and evolution of Chinese herbal medicine and experience the healthy life brought by various plants, herbal medicines and herbs.

In order to enhance the sightseeing quality of visitors, we design our gardening theme combining traditional and modern technologies to bring together the big data analysis, artificial intelligence, audio-visual interactive experience and other aspects so that they can experience the “gardening +” charm in an all-around way. The China Pavilion combines exquisite plant landscaping techniques with modern multimedia interactive technology to create beautiful and colorful green hills and waters. In the Life Experience Pavilion, you can have interactive experiences of the relationships between meteorology, aerospace as well as gardening and life, experience all kinds of novel and dreamlike feelings between gardening and technology and design your own virtual gardening living space personally. The real ecological landscape of the Botanical Pavilion shows the tropical plant communities, allowing visitors to perceive real mangrove plant communities and other tropical plants in the plant greenhouse.

Creating an exquisite cultural feast, the Beijing Expo will bring visitors a unique experience

There will be 2,500 cultural events during the Beijing Expo, achieving the goal of themes every month, exchanges every week, exhibitions every day and interactions every now and then and giving visitors a different visual and sensory experience. The cultural activities of the session are divided into five major sections, namely “key activities” (opening ceremony, China Pavilion Day, closing ceremony); “daily activities” (“National Day” “Honorary Day”, “Day of Provinces, Autonomous Regions and Municipalities, float parade); professional forums and international competitions; a gathering of the world’s national and folk cultures; the science and technology section “Technology Light, Innovation Picture”. At the same time, 180 “float parades” will be held, telling the cultural stories of Chinese nation featured by “one float one story and ten floats a long volume” by 10 “ecological floats” of fresh plants. During the session, the 5th Beijing International Conference of Friendly Chambers of Commerce, the International Competition of the Beijing Expo 2019, the International Green City Forum, the “June 1” International Children’s Healthy Development Forum, and the 2019 Beijing International Design Week World Expo Forum will be held. In the part of a gathering of the world’s national and folk cultures, “Blooming National Flowers”, “Flowers of the World” and “Beijing-style Colorful Cultures” and other thematic activities will be held.

Adhering to the visitor-centered concept, the Beijing Expo will provide visitors with comfortable tour services

At present, the Xingyan Expressway and the plain section of the Yanchong Expressway are basically completed and are expected to be open to traffic at the end of the year. Shiyuan Road, Baikang Road, Hunan Road, Kangzhang Road and Fukang Road among the 13 roads around the zone are basically completed and have been put into use one after another, and the rest of the roads will be completed during the year; 10 parking lots around and outside the zone have been basically completed. Expand the capacity of the Suburban Railway Line S2, add a bus line from the urban area to Yanqing, increase the departure frequency of bus lines around the zone, and build a comprehensive bus security system; open a tour route connecting the zone of World Expo and surrounding scenic spots to create a fine travel line; special parking lots for fast charging piles, shared bicycles, public rental bicycles, and special vehicles for time-sharing will be equipped to meet diverse travel modes.

In terms of ticketing, the Beijing Expo has set up different ticket types according to different time periods and sales targets, and established a sales channel of “online + travel agency + site”. Implement a full-time appointment, analyze the daily enrollment number and characteristics according to the network big data, and predict and guide in advance. In addition, according to the needs of visitors, a special “cross-night ticket” is set up to guide visitors to travel at non-peak hours and get a better visiting experience. That is, visitors who enter the zone after 16:00 on the same day can continue to visit for free the next day and enter by scanning their own ID cards (according to the ticket setting rules, the exception of cross-night ticket is: the case in which the day is weekday, and the next day is a designated day doesn’t apply to cross-night ticket).

In the visiting process, we provide refined management and humanized services, and improve various basic service facilities. According to local conditions, the existing forests are preserved to make a green waiting area, allowing visitors to stay in the shade of the green; from the perspective of the difference in visitor demand, optimize the ratio of men’s and women’s toilets to 1:2.5 to provide visitors with more convenience; on the venue service, an appointment mechanism is introduced to minimize the waiting time for visitors to wait in line. At the same time, with the construction of “wisdom world zone of gardens” and visitors as the core, and through the intelligent facilities, big data and artificial intelligence, and human-computer interaction combined with virtual reality, the world zone will change from a traditional garden to a friend who interacts with every visitor. It enables visitors to enjoy comfort, safety, convenience and ultimate sightseeing in a limited zone space, providing visitors with personalized, intimate and convenient smart travel services.

With the principle of reuse after the advanced planning, the Beijing Expo will become a new destination for tourism and leisure in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei

The post-conference use of the Beijing Expo will focus on four aspects. First, create a good classroom for ecological civilization. On the basis of the title of “Beijing Green Ecological Civilization Demonstration Zone”, the zone will be further transformed into an ecological civilization education experience base and an ecological civilization display window, providing a place for people from all walks of life to feel natural strength, the traditional Chinese horticultural culture and the latest achievements in the development of ecological civilization. Second, create a new engine for green development. Relying on the horticultural industry belt, it gathers cutting-edge technologies and cultural elements of flowers, fruits, herbs, vegetables, tea and other industries to build a world-class horticultural cultural function zone and promote the development of the horticultural industry. Third, do a good job to serve the Winter Olympics. Relying on the supporting facilities and related venues of the zone, we will explore the provision of service guarantee for the Winter Olympics. Fourth, build a new landscape of ecotourism. Based on the functional orientation of the ecological conservation area, the zone will be developed into leisure and recreation base of the citizens and a mature and rich eco-tourism belt will be built in combination with the Badaling and Zhangjiakou areas.