Liaoning Garden: Dream-building Rings Embodies Liaoning in Beauty

Liaoning Exhibition Garden of the Beijing Expo 2019 is themed the “Ring of Dreams”. The red ring symbolizes the revitalization of the old industrial base, the blue ring the achievements of reform and opening up, and the green ring horticultural culture development, all combined to showcasing the great beauty of Liaoning, as well as its local and cultural features in the times and its scientific and industrial progress.

Liaoning Exhibition Garden has three main display lines, each representing one “ring of dream.” Themed the “Revitalization of Shenyang Old Industrial Base”, the first takes the gear as an element to demonstrate its new image by combining modern design techniques, which is the red ring. The second is titled the “Achievements of Dalian during Reform and Opening up”. China’s first aircraft carrier was built and improved in Dalian and named “Liaoning”. Here, the image of the aircraft carrier “Liaoning” is extracted as an element to show the achievements of Dalian in reform and opening up, which is the blue ring. The third is the critical part of Liaoning Exhibition Garden, the Liaoning horticultural development, which is the green ring.

Liaoning’s Ten Sceneries are the main scenic spots of the exhibition garden, which encompass urban horticultural development and its unique industrial symbol of Liaoning Province in the Gift Presenting Gate, the Dream-building Bay, and the Dream-initiating Voyage, etc. Visitors enter the Garden via Dream-sharing Square, step on Dream-realizing Road after passing through the landscape nodes such as the Gift Presenting Gate, the Dream-building Bay, and the South Lake Boating. The descending ramp and the semi-circular corridor for visiting semi-indoor exhibition areas like potted flower display area and the Dream of the Gentleman lead to outdoor horticultural sculptures such as the sunken Star and Sea Facing Each Other, the stereoscopic horticultural exhibition area, and the underground indoor exhibition hall of Dream-initiating Voyage. When climbing to the peak of the garden through the deck exit, the entire garden will be a panoramic view. Finally, walk out of the park from the west side of Shengjing Light. Throughout the park, each of the ten sceneries of Liaoning has their own implied meaning. The Dream-sharing Square implies to march together with the dream of “revitalizing Liaoning”. In the scenic spot Star and Sea Facing Each Other, visitors can stop at the Xinghai Bay to look at the Liaoning warship in distance. Dream-initiating Voyage takes the aircraft carrier Liaoning as its prototype, implying to start a new journey of seeking dreams. The scenic spot of Dream-building Bay will show the training scene of Liaoning warship aircraft carrier formation in the Bohai Bay, which means building a dream and sailing ahead. The scenic spot of South Lake Boating means taking flower border as water and industry as boat, showing visitors the beautiful scenery of South Lake.

The Beijing Expo 2019 will span three seasons, namely spring, summer and autumn. The whole exhibition garden will adopt the three-season color control method by using the feature horticultural plants such as arbors, shrubs, flowers and ornamental grasses to create beautiful scenery with season changes. The spring palette is mainly tender green, beige, and red for a pleasant, relaxed, and vibrant vibe, summer is dominated by lavender, pale pink, and green for freshness, nature and elegance, and autumn golden yellow together with fire red for festiveness and jubilance.