China-Botanical Garden

Shotlist

Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, south China – Recent (Guangzhou Broadcasting Network – No access Chinese mainland)
1. Aerial shot of botanical garden
2. Various of trees
3. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Hu Qiming, researcher, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ending with shots 4-6):
“At that time, it was in a stretch of barren land, with barren paddy fields forming its flat ground and hills dotted with yellow mud caused by soil erosion. The botanical garden was built on that kind of land. It’s been five or six generations since the establishment of the botanical garden. It’s a long course of accumulation.”
4. Various of photos
5. Hu talking to reporter
6. Aerial shots of garden
7. Various of trees, other plants at garden
8. Aerial shots of garden
9. Gate of garden
10. Various of researchers at work
11. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Qu Hongxia, researcher, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ending with shots 12-13):
“We connect the primary industry and the tertiary industry with our profession. We serve as a bridge to integrate fruit preservation into the national supply chain, which forms a very important link.”
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12. Facilities of lab
13. Board showing photos of researchers
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14. Trees at garden
15. Various of buildings, gate of garden

Storyline

The South China Botanical Garden, built by generations of Chinese botanists, has played a vital role in the development of the global botany and undertaken important tasks in China’s development.

The garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is one of the botanical research and plant conservation institutions with a long history in China.

In 1929, academician Chen Huanyong, a famous botanist, founded the Institute of Agroforestry and Plants of the National Sun Yat-sen University, predecessor of the garden. In the early days, it had only one office and a specimen room.

In 1956, the garden was relocated to its present location in Guangzhou City, capital of south China’s Guangdong Province.

“At that time, it was in a stretch of barren land, with barren paddy fields forming its flat ground and hills dotted with yellow mud caused by soil erosion. The botanical garden was built on that kind of land. It’s been five or six generations since the establishment of the botanical garden. It’s a long course of accumulation,” said Hu Qiming, a researcher of the garden.

The botanical garden has created a miracle in the history of rubber tree cultivation in the world, and built the largest landscape greenhouse cluster in Asia.

It has made great achievements in the research of restoration ecology, protection and utilization of orchids, and ex situ conservation of plants, influencing the development of botany in the world.

At present, it is also providing source plant resources, knowledge and technology support for the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in urban greening, green development and rural revitalization.

“We connect the primary industry and the tertiary industry with our profession. We serve as a bridge to integrate fruit preservation into the national supply chain, which forms a very important link,” said Qu Hongxia, another researcher of the garden.