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Unveiling the BCI Cooperation Center in the city Kunming
Our next destination was Kunming. We travelled by bus from Shuyang to Nanjing and then ew to Kunming. We were welcomed and accompanied by Mr. Zhou, whose ancestral business was Tea and is now one of the largest growers of Bonsai in the region.
Kunming in Yunnan province of China is famous for Landscape Architecture. Home to 26 of China’s 55 national minorities, Yunnan is a gold mine of diversity and tradition. Kunming is ideal for growth of temperate and sub-tropical bonsai trees due to its hilly elevated areas.
BCI’s 3rd Cooperation Center in Kunming will o er cooperation and encouragement for the development of bonsai and horticulture. e unveiling ceremony was arranged in a hotel with all bonsai growers from the area present. e plaque unveiling was done by Mr. I.C. Su, BCI Honorary Chairman and Mr. Lee Ke Wen, Vice Chairman of the China Bonsai Association. e board members were later entertained with a demonstration of their traditional and elaborate tea ceremony.
In the afternoon we were taken to the World Horti-Expo Garden, a botanical garden center. It played host to the October 1999 Kunming International Horticulture Exposition. As an international botanical garden, the Expo Garden has become a significant Kunming landmark and covers an area of 218 hectares. We were driven around in a special cart past beautifully designed and maintained gardens of various provinces of
This page; The World Horti-Expo Garden, an international botanical garden that has become a signi cant Kunming landmark and covers an area of 218 hectares.
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