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INTRODUCTION OF NANJING BOTANICAL GARDEN MEM. SUN YAT-SEN
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The garden is the first national botanical garden established in 1929 in China. The original name was 'Botanical Garden Memorial Sun Yat-Sen', which was dedicated to the memory of Mr. Sun Yat-Sen, the pioneer of Chinese democratic revolution. In 1954, it was received and reconstructed by Eastern China Research Station, Institute of Plant Taxonomy, Academia Sinica and renamed as Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen, Academia Sinica. By this time, the garden and the institute of botany have merged into a single whole. After 1970, the ownership of the garden belonged to Jiangsu Province. Under the dual leading of Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences, it has been renamed as Nanjing Botanical garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences Since 1993.
The garden is located at the eastern suburb, a National Scenic Area. With the Purple Mountain behind and the Qian Lake in front, the garden lies beside of the ancient city wall of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) nearby the famous Zhongshan Tomb. The area of the garden is totally 186 ha. With luxuriant vegetation, lawns, hills and lakes. It is both a beautiful scenic spot and a plant kingdom.
Through hard efforts of several generations, the garden has now turned into a well-known botanical garden with beautiful landscape and comprehensive functions including display, education and scientific research. As a research center on central and northern subtropical floras of China, the garden has a living collection of about 3000 taxa belonging to 913 genera of 188 families. The Herbarium (NAS) contained a total amount of 700,000 sheets of specimens. There are five research departments: Ornamental Plant Research Center, Medicinal Plant Research Center, Plant Information Center, Key Laboratory of Plant Ex-situ Conservation of Jiangsu Province and Herbarium (NAS). Ten featured plantations (sections) have been constructed and opened.
So far, the garden has set up an exchange program of seeds, plants, specimens and books with over six hundred organizations of more than sixty countries in the world. The sister relationship of botanical gardens was established with Missouri Botanical Garden, USA, which is the first one in China. Professor Peter H. Raven, the Director of Missouri Botanical Garden and the foreign academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, was invited as Honor Director of the garden in 1993. Friendly relationships with Botanical Garden of UBC in Canada and the Botanical Garden, University of Tokyo, Japan have been set up. The garden is now a member of IUCN Threatened Plant Committee, Botanical Garden Conservation International. An International Symposium on Botanical Garden was held at the garden in 1988, which was the first one in Asia. Also in 1993, the garden was the main organizer for XI International Association of Botanical Gardens Conference. The garden is recognized as one of the four major botanical gardens in China. It was also awarded the titles of State Base of Botanical Education and 'LangYuan', one of the forty-eight new famous scenic spots in Nanjing. Over 300,000 visitors both domestic and overseas come to the garden every year. |
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| Brilliant view of the Ginkgo tree in late autumn |
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