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E-mail China.org.cn, January 11, 2025
Beijing has launched the 2025 Family Gardening Carnival. The event started at the end of 2024 and will run until Feb. 15, spanning three major holidays of New Year's Day, the Spring Festival, and the Lantern Festival.
During the event, over 20 million pots of flowers, including more than 1,000 premium varieties such as orchards and flamingo flowers, will be available to shoppers in Beijing, along with gardening tools and cultural creative products.
The family gardening market includes 24 large flower fairs and 200 brick-and-mortar flower shops. The flowers and products come from over 600 flower suppliers registered on the Beijing Flower Digital Industrial Chain Platform and 50 gardening stations and education bases.
Since the launch of the event, Beijing's seven major flower markets have attracted over 420,000 visitors, and sold 623,000 plots of flowers and about 6.8 million branches of fresh-cut flowers.
A highlight of the event has been the introduction of 10 famous Spring Festival flowers from other cities. Residents can purchase celebrated varieties such as Heze's peonies, Xuchang's wintersweet, and Zhangzhou's plum flowers in Beijing.
Beijing will also introduce maps for flower buying and viewing.
The city aims to position itself as both an international flower technological innovation hub and a national flower consumption center, said Gao Dawei, head of the Beijing Municipal Forestry and Parks Bureau.
Beijing leverages technologies to enhance flower quality. Now the city is home to over 500 independently developed flower species with intellectual property rights, and pioneers the national flower technological research and development exhibition. It also introduces and cultivates 200 species annually from both domestic and international sources.
Additionally, vacant spaces in parks, communities, and commercial properties are being transformed into flower shops and gardening experience centers.
Gardening is also integrated into renovation of traditional business facilities, with various shopping malls and business zones to establish gardening scenarios and host exhibitions and sales events during the carnival, said Li Yanling, deputy head of the Beijing Municipal Commerce Bureau.
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