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The Ministry of Housing will allocate experts on “establishment of a national garden city” to carry out the final official acceptance for Chenzhou’s establishment of a national garden city. Mao Xiaowei- Deputy Director of Suzhou Greening and Garden Management Bureau, Li Xiong- Dean of Garden Academy of Beijing Forestry University and some other experts visited Chenzhou from November 4-5, 2012 and held a feedback conference with the principals of Chenzhou relative departments.

In recent years, Chenzhou city has fighting for establishing an ecological livable city by forging city brand as “forest city & leisure city” and carrying out the work for establishment of a national garden city. By the end of 2011, 2555 hectares of afforestation, 2415 hectares of green lands, and 522 hectares of garden green lands had been fulfilled, which enabled Chenzhou urban city to be with 38.31%, 36.21% and 9.53 square meters of greening coverage rate, green land rate and green areas respectively. All the three indexes were beyond the standards of a national garden city. Especially for the satisfactory rate of city greening work, Chenzhou gained a high mark as 84.51%.

On the feedback conference, experts highly affirmed Chenzhou government’s work on the construction of establishment of a national garden city, especially for the construction of Beihu Lake. The experts said that Beihu lake is well integrated with the city by its location, accessory infrastructure, greening work, etc.. Its main function is maximized to improve people’s living conditions. Meantime, the experts presented some suggestions to the inspection and submission work of Chenzhou’s establishment of a national garden city.

Some relative Chenzhou municipal leaders attended these activities.