The Shanghai Greenery Administrative Bureau announced yesterday that Shanghai Botanic Garden in Xuhui District, Gongqing Forest Park in Yangpu District and Guyiyuan Garden in Jiading District will open to the public for free on the 10th of every month starting from March this year.

According to the greenery administration, most of the city's parks will open for free to the public by 2005.

(Shanghai Daily Februray 18, 2004)