A typical representative of garden city

The practice of "garden city" construction in China has been nearly ten years, during which twelve "garden cities" were born, and many cities are working towards this goal. Most of the twelve "garden cities" are located in the developed areas in eastern China, among which Beijing, Nanjing and Hangzhou are national historical and cultural cities, Dalian, Xiamen, Weihai, Zhanjiang and Zhuhai are coastal cities, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, Zhongshan and Nanning are located in the south of the Tropic of Cancer, and Maanshan is an industrial city. Baotou City and Hefei City are characterized by perfect green space system layout. It can be seen that most of the "garden cities" have a solid economic foundation, or rely on favorable natural conditions, or set up a relatively perfect green space system with historical and cultural heritage as the background. The green space index has reached 30% of the built-up area, the urban green coverage rate is 35%, and the per capita public green space is 5 square meters. They have many successful experiences in the protection and construction of urban ecological environment, urban landscape and urban style. Zhanjiang in Guangdong once enjoyed the reputation of "Garden City", "Little Paris", "Qingdao in the North, Zhanjiang in the South" and "Geneva in China".

1959 On February 20th, the National Afforestation and Landscape Work Conference was held in Guangzhou. More than 40 directors, experts, professors and representatives from forestry departments of 27 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions attended the conference.

According to the agenda, the meeting ended in Zhanjiang. The reason is that Zhanjiang achieved remarkable results in greening and afforestation, and a number of well-known advanced afforestation units emerged, such as Dianbai Bohe Forest Belt (which was under the jurisdiction of Zhanjiang at that time), Nansan Forest Belt and Suixi Eucalyptus Forest Belt, which promoted the national greening and afforestation work through on-site observation.

On March 7th, 1959, delegates from all over the country arrived in Zhanjiang. They had heard before that Zhanjiang in history was an exile in a foreign land and a barren land. But I didn't expect Zhanjiang in front of me. Blue sky, white clouds, blue sea, green trees and red flowers constitute a beautiful scenery. Neat street trees, different street tree species are different; The garden formed by the partition wall is full of flowers and trees; The flower beds under the trees on the street are varied and colorful, and the whole city is like a green forest network, which is lush. Zhanjiang's unique tropical scenery in the north shocked the delegates, who blurted out their praise: Zhanjiang is really a garden city. This title was immediately celebrated among the delegates. This is the first time that Zhanjiang has won the title of "Garden City". On June 23rd, 2006, Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province was awarded the honorary title of "National Garden City".

Participants learned that there were only more than 2,000 street trees in Zhanjiang city in the early days of liberation, and the per capita green area was less than 0.5 square meters. After liberation, Zhanjiang people launched a large-scale tree planting campaign to beautify and green Zhanjiang. In just a few years, more than 60 million trees have been planted, and the green area has reached more than 40,000 mu. The greening and layout style is self-contained. In addition, the people of Zhanjiang also built seaside park and Xishan Park (now Jinqiao Park) in the form of voluntary labor.

The delegates admired Zhanjiang people's enthusiasm for greening and afforestation, and felt that Zhanjiang's greening experience was worth learning. They suggested that the meeting increase the time for visiting and studying. It is said that the meeting was originally scheduled for a few days in Zhanjiang, extended to 1959 March19, and stayed in Zhanjiang for 12 days. One month before and after the whole meeting, it was the largest, longest and most resounding forestry meeting after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Hui Zhongquan, Vice Minister of Forestry Department of the State Council, made a summary. In his speech, he mentioned that the meeting ended successfully in Zhanjiang, a "garden city", which was very meaningful. This is the first affirmation of the title of "Garden City" in Zhanjiang.

Photographers from the Central News Film Studio, who accompanied the meeting to shoot the documentary of the meeting, also marveled at the beautiful scenery of Zhanjiang. They immediately photographed the city appearance of Zhanjiang, named it "Garden City-Zhanjiang", and distributed it to the whole country in the form of news briefing beginning with 1960. In addition, more than 100 delegates went back to various places for publicity, and Zhanjiang's reputation as a "garden city" became a household name in China. In Baotou in 1950s, there were only 4 willows and 59 poplars in Nanmenwai Street.

Today, Baotou has two titles: National Garden City and National Forest City. The increase of urban greening, forest coverage, precious tree species and even rare species is really hard-won for this heavy chemical industrial city, which once developed and rose on almost arid and barren land. Baotou, "half tower and half tree, full of lush eyes", will still stride forward in the lush harmony of people, forests and grass.

The green area of Baotou City has reached 2 1 1.84 ha. The streets of Baotou are wide and tidy, with many tall buildings and trees, and various city squares and residential attractions abound. So far, the city has built 10 parks, more than 80 street attractions and 17 large green squares, and a garden city has begun to take shape.

Saihantala Grassland, located in the center of Baotou, is the only urban grassland in China. There are grasslands in the city, and there are cities in the grasslands, which are unique and cannot be said to be a miracle of nature. In order to meet the needs of ecological harmony construction in Baotou City, Baotou City radiates from the urban area, forming the overall pattern of "three circles and one belt" urban forest construction with green channels as the link, and constructing urban forest ecosystem, suburban forest ecosystem and suburban forest ecosystem in Baotou City. Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island, an important port except Auckland, the third largest city in New Zealand, and a world-class "garden city". It is known as "the city most like Britain except Britain" and is also the gateway to Antarctica.