A Western concept in China

摘要

With the aim of preserving the diversity of plant species, the botanic garden is in origin a Western concept which has also been adopted in China. In the last century, around 200 Chinese botanic gardens were laid out, together containing some 17,000 species, more than 50 percent of the country's seminoferous plants. But this is still notenough.Thatiswhy Shanghai has now created China's largest botanic garden, covering 200 hectares in all.rnThe book Shanghai- New Botanic Garden describes the Chensan Botanical Garden as some ring-shaped sculpture consisting of various vegetation types, situated in the bustling city like an outlandish object.The assignment has not been an easy one, for the high level of the ground water,the salty soil and the fierce winds form a problem to many varieties of vegetation.With moist narrow valleys, bare hill tops, sunny slopes and marshy hol-lows.the Chinese have recreated a whole gamut of local conditions.