The 10th Flower Expo will open in Chongming, Shanghai on the 21st, and the ticketing and transportation arrangements will be announced.
At the press conference of the 10th China Flower Expo, Liu Dongsheng, deputy director of the State Forestry and Grassland Bureau, introduced the development of the national flower industry and the situation of the Expo, Tang Zhiping, deputy mayor of Shanghai, introduced the preparation and guarantee of the Expo, and Zhao Liangping, vice president of the China Flower Association, introduced the organization and participation of the Expo. Zhang Wei, Director of Ecology Department of State Forestry and Grassland Bureau, Cai Jun, First-class Inspector of Shanghai Municipal Transportation Commission, Li Zheng, Secretary of Chongming District Committee, Mingfang, Chairman of Guangming Food Group, and Zhang Hao, Deputy Director of Municipal Health and Wellness Commission, attended the press conference to answer questions from reporters.
The first national flower festival held on the island, in the countryside and in the forest.
The preparations for the 10th China Flower Expo are progressing smoothly, and the construction of the exhibition garden and the layout of the exhibition area have been basically completed, which is ready for the opening. According to the plan, the 10th Flower Expo will be held in Chongming District, Shanghai from May 21st to July 2nd, 2021.
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China Flower Expo is a national-level flower event co-sponsored by National Forestry and Grassland Administration, China Flower Association and the provincial people’s government, which is held every four years. Since 1987, it has been successfully held in Beijing, Shanghai, Shunde, Guangdong, Wenjiang, Sichuan, Qingzhou, Shandong, Changzhou, Jiangsu, Yinchuan, Ningxia and other places, creating a number of unique flower tourist attractions and mass leisure places. With distinctive theme, rich exhibition contents and colorful activities, the Flower Expo leads the new and excellent varieties of flowers, technical achievements and indoor and outdoor landscape trends, promotes the exchange and cooperation of the flower industry, and promotes the development of the whole industrial chain of flower research and development, production, processing, packaging, logistics and trading, which is of great significance for guiding the public flower consumption, spreading and popularizing flower culture, accelerating the development process of modern flower industry in China and promoting the economic and social progress of the host city.
Since the reform and opening up, China’s flower industry has made great progress, and is now changing from high-speed development to high-quality development. By the end of 2020, China’s flower planting area has reached more than 1.5 million hectares and its annual sales have reached more than 250 billion yuan, making it the world’s largest flower production base, an important flower consumption country and a flower import and export trade country. The flower market is becoming more and more mature, the industrial chain is becoming more and more perfect, the ability of scientific and technological innovation is continuously enhanced, the flower culture is vigorously promoted, and the role of flower industry in beautiful China and ecological civilization construction is increasingly prominent, which has become an important pillar of urban and rural economy in many places. By vigorously developing the flower industry, it has played an important role in greening and beautifying the environment, promoting the implementation of rural revitalization strategy, promoting the income of urban and rural residents, improving people’s quality of life, and guiding civilized consumption and green life.
The 10th Flower Expo is the first national flower event held on islands, villages and forests. It is a flower event in which all provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions participate, with the largest number of outdoor gardens and the most enthusiastic participation of foreign cities; It is a flower event that uses flowers as a medium to spread the positive energy of beautiful flowers, promote the concept of green development and promote red culture; It is a grand gathering that pays special attention to ecological protection, insists on Excellence, insists on scientific and technological innovation, and insists on letting a hundred flowers blossom.
Highlights of Flower Expo "Spoiler"
Shanghai adheres to the concept of "ecology, innovation, diligence, honesty and safety" and makes great efforts to promote the preparations for the Expo. At present, the construction of venues, seedlings in public areas and supporting facilities in Dongping town in Huabo Park has been fully completed, and the exhibition tasks of indoor and outdoor exhibition halls have been completed one after another. Each exhibitor is making the final arrangement of flowers; Security, transportation, communication, emergency, city appearance, volunteers and other teams have all settled in the park; Chongming is widely mobilized in the whole region to carry out the activities of "welcoming flowers, managing five sheds and beautiful environment", and will welcome guests from all directions with the beautiful "Flower Island on the Sea".
Pressure test situation
Huabo Garden consists of North Garden and South Garden. On March 24th, Nanyuan started the stress test by holding the Flower Festival. On April 10th, the no-load test of Beiyuan was started. On April 27th, the first small load test of Huabo North Park was completed, and nearly 20,000 tourists were organized to enter the park. On May 7th, the stress test of the integration of North and South Park was completed, and nearly 50,000 tourists were organized to enter the park. On May 12, 15 and 16, the park will carry out three campus-wide stress tests to optimize and improve various operational details to ensure the safe and orderly formal operation.
Opening ceremony activities
The opening ceremony of this year’s Flower Expo will be held on May 21st. The opening ceremony marks that after more than three years of careful preparation and construction, Huabo Park is officially open to tourists. At that time, guests from all walks of life are welcome to gather in Huabo Park to participate in the flower event.
Ticket sales
Tickets for the Flower Expo have been officially pre-sold on May 1st. Tickets can be purchased through official channels such as the bidding APP, APPlet, Shanghai Chongming app, offline travel agencies, or by calling the official service hotline (400-100-0701). Older people over 60 years old, students in school, active servicemen, key entitled groups, firefighters, disabled people, etc. can enjoy preferential ticket purchase policies.
The ticket details of the Flower Expo can be found here!
epidemic prevention and control
According to the overall deployment of the city’s epidemic prevention and control, up to now, the vaccination rate of relevant personnel involved in the operation, management and service of the Flower Expo in COVID-19 has reached 99.53%. We will work out an epidemic prevention and control plan and implement various epidemic prevention and control measures in strict accordance with the requirements of normalization control.
Traffic travel
During the Expo, everyone will be encouraged to travel in a green and intensive way and visit the garden in groups. The city will set up 7 Expo lines at Wuzhou Avenue Hub, Longyang Road Hub and other places, and set up 10 customized passenger lines at Hongqiao Hub and People’s Square, adding 2 special land and water transport lines. After booking tickets online, tourists can determine the mode of travel according to the system prompts, and give priority to intensive transportation modes such as Huabo Special Line and Land-Water Intermodal Line. If tourists choose to watch the exhibition by car, they need to make an appointment for parking around the park in advance. In principle, they cannot enter the core area of Huabo Park without an appointment. I hope you will understand and cooperate.
Accommodation security
This year’s Flower Expo will arrange wonderful night activities such as drone performances and float parades. Therefore, it is hoped that more tourists can live in Chongming and deeply appreciate the beautiful fragrance of Huabo Garden and the development achievements of eco-island construction. Chongming is a national-level global tourism demonstration zone. After two years of upgrading, expansion and capacity enhancement, there are currently 293 hotels, 988 homestays and 26 temporary accommodation facilities in Chongming Island, which can provide 43,000 beds to meet the personalized accommodation needs of tourists from all walks of life.
Park catering service
The total number of seats in Huabo Garden is nearly 9,000, mainly fast food. The main service points of Beiyuan are Huaqitang, Waterfront Tea Room and Food Plaza, which provide Chinese food, Western fast food, Shanghai flavor and Chongming characteristics. The main service points of Nanyuan Park are Jinhu Tiandi, barbecue campsite and RV camp. A number of temporary catering facilities, convenience stores, 18 mobile dining cars and vending machines will be set up in the park to meet the catering needs of tourists and provide convenient catering services.
Service facilities and security
Huabo Park adheres to the principle of taking tourists as the center, and is equipped with fully functional, reasonable layout and efficient operation and service facilities. There are 17 primary, secondary and tertiary service points in the park, equipped with hotline, broadcasting and other services; Equipped with nearly 25,000 public seats, and equipped with a certain number of sunshade and rain shelter facilities and sanitary toilets; There are 4 medical stations, 8 temporary observation points and 4 ambulances. In addition, intelligent security equipment has been installed in all open areas and parking lots in the park, and there are two helicopter emergency take-off and landing points around the park, equipped with three police aviation helicopters, to achieve full coverage of civil air defense and technical defense in the park, and the emergency response is fast and powerful.
Cultural activity planning
During the Flower Expo, more than 300 cultural activities will be held around the two elements of flowers and party building, including opening and closing ceremonies, theme series activities to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party, and evening performances. Various theme activities organized by exhibitors such as provincial and municipal flower associations and their branches, domestic and foreign exhibitors and sponsors; And online activities such as live broadcast, cloud travel, cloud purchase and competition.
Ambassador of public welfare image
Mr. Liao Changyong and Ms. Wu Minxia have been formally invited to be ambassadors of public welfare image at this Flower Expo. Liao Changyong is the singer of the theme song "Chinese Dream in Flowers" of the Flower Expo; Wu Minxia is a famous diver, the first female Olympic "hardware" champion in China history, and has won 20 world-class gold medals and 32 medals.
What are the highlights of "One Heart, One Axis, Six Pavilions and Six Gardens"
The 10th China Flower Expo Park consists of North Garden and South Garden, with a total area of 589 hectares. The overall planning of Huabo Garden adheres to the design concept of respecting the natural texture and maintaining the ecological base and pastoral style. Focusing on the theme of "Flower Chinese Dream" of Huabo Expo, it highlights the flower elements in all directions, makes every effort to create a flower culture atmosphere, and actively uses new technologies and new processes of ecological protection to strive to create a Huabo Garden with the characteristics of the Expo and the characteristics of the times and regions.
The overall planning layout is "one heart, one axis, six pavilions and six gardens", which shows the atmospheric pattern of "blooming flowers and shining China". "One Heart" is the core area of "Garden of Dreams", with peony flowers as the composition element, and through the flower sea, flower diameter, Huaxi and Huagu, the beautiful landscape of Huabo Garden with "peony blooming and welcoming the prosperous times" is created as a whole; The "first axis" is the flower Expo axis, connecting Nanyuan, Yingbin Square, Century Pavilion, Fuxing Square, Fuxing Pavilion and Dongping Town, and arranging flower beds, flower galleries, flower bridges and styles along the line; The "six pavilions" are Fuxing Pavilion, Century Pavilion, Bamboo and Rattan Pavilion, Baihua Pavilion, Flower Art Pavilion and Huaqitang. Six exhibition gardens, namely Magnolia, Plum Blossom, Chrysanthemum, Orchid, Lotus and Bamboo Garden, have been built in the park, focusing on displaying the traditional precious flowers in China and promoting the flower culture in China.
The main exhibition area of Huabo Garden is divided into indoor exhibition area and outdoor exhibition area. The outdoor garden is divided into east and west areas. The eastern area is an outdoor exhibition garden in various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The west area is the branch garden of China Flower Association, the international friendship city garden, the international designer garden, the Chinese and foreign flower enterprise garden, the international hundred excellent new product garden, the vegetable garden, the enterprise name garden and so on.
Provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), branches of China Flower Association and relevant cities and enterprises actively participated in the exhibition, with 189 exhibitors, the largest number of exhibitors in previous flower fairs. 180 outdoor exhibition gardens will be built, including 35 in various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, 10 in branches of China Flower Association, 14 in named enterprise gardens, 20 in flower enterprises participating in flower gardening, landscaping and other enterprises and organizations, 12 in national sister cities, 10 in international designer gardens, 30 in citizen gardens, and 4 in characteristic flower gardens.
At this year’s Flower Expo, 64 indoor exhibition areas were built in various provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, branches of Flower Association and related enterprises and units, focusing on displaying unique flower varieties with local characteristics, main flower products and new flower varieties, new technologies and new products created through scientific and technological research. More than 20,000 exhibits will be displayed in the indoor exhibition area, and nearly 1,000 new flower varieties will appear on the stage. Among them. There are 72 new flower varieties independently developed in Beijing and 63 new flower varieties in Shanghai.