First International Orchid Exhibition Held in Shenyang

On September 12, the opening ceremony of the first China Shenyang International Orchid Exhibition and the foundation-laying ceremony of the Shenyang Youth Science Popularization Education Base were held at the International Famous Orchid Hall of the Guanghui Demonstration Zone. Zhu Baocheng, member of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Agriculture and head of the discipline inspection group, Zhao Huaming, Vice Governor of the People's Government of Liaoning Province, Liu Yaqin, Chairwoman of the Shenyang Municipal CPPCC, Liu Changjiang, Director of the Liaoning Provincial Agricultural Commission, and Wang Xiangkun and Jiang Jun, Vice Mayors of the Shenyang Municipal People's Government, and other leaders unveiled the first China Shenyang International Orchid Exhibition and laid the foundation for the Shenyang Youth Science Popularization Education Base. Well-known orchid associations and leading enterprises from more than 20 countries and regions brought more than 100 varieties of famous orchids to the exhibition. The exhibition will last from September 12 to the end of October. During this period, a series of activities will also be held, including the "Beautiful Guanghui, Charming Dade" painting, calligraphy and photography competition, and a themed matchmaking event for those born in the 1970s and 1980s.

At the opening ceremony, Chen Shuangwei, Party Working Committee Secretary and Management Committee Director of the Guanghui Demonstration Zone, expressed welcome and thanks to the attending leaders and guests on behalf of the Guanghui Demonstration Zone, and introduced the relevant information about the orchid exhibition and the functional planning of the Youth Science Popularization Education Base to the attending leaders and guests.

The theme of this orchid exhibition is "Using Orchids as a Medium, Meeting at Guanghui." The 20,000 sq m International Fine Orchid Hall is divided into 3 functional zones: a 5,000 sq m orchid exhibition area, a 5,000 sq m pottery art, painting and calligraphy exhibition area, and a 10,000 sq m organic vegetable exhibition area. Entering the orchid exhibition area, the first thing that comes into view is the themed landscape "The Beauty of Shenyang, Enhanced by Orchid Art" designed by Taiwan Sanyi Group. This landscape consists of three parts: a waterfall, a golden tree and a floral gate. A waterfall formed by stacking thousands of white Phalaenopsis orchids pours down, with white petals like splashes from the waterfall. Next to the fragrant snow waterfall is the golden tree decorated with Oncidium, its branches full of flowers exceptionally enchanting. The waterfall and the golden tree respectively represent Shenyang's increasingly improved ecological environment and Shenyang's rapidly developing economy, while the orchid gate made of pink Phalaenopsis is a gate of history and culture, symbolizing Shenyang's long history and profound culture. Passing through the gate of history, visitors can see 12 large orchid landscapes in the exhibition hall, including "Shengjing Wonderland," "Fairy Traces and Orchid Charm," "Orchid in the Empty Valley," "Ochid's Northern Adventure," and "Orchids Welcome the New Century," as well as 10 medium-sized landscapes such as "Hope of Orchids," "Andersen's Fairy Tales," "Orchid-Colored Countryside," "Lion City Orchid Art, Shenyang in Splendor," and "Dream Orchid Castle."

The several dozen varieties and more than 20,000 fine orchids from more than 20 countries and regions around the world participating in the exhibition are divided into six units for competition: "Cattleya," "Paphiopedilum," "Phalaenopsis," "Other Orchid Genera," "Combined Potted Flowers" and "Landscape Arrangement," and presidents and vice presidents of several world-renowned orchid associations from the United States, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, China and other places will judge and award prizes for various fine orchids.

This orchid exhibition in the Guanghui Demonstration Zone is one of the large-scale series of activities of the 2012 China (Shenyang) International Seed Industry Expo and the China Shenyang International Agricultural Expo. It is the largest orchid event in the Liaoshen region with the widest participation and the richest content. The purpose of this orchid exhibition is to better meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the general public, promote the development of Shenyang's modern service industry, and promote the transformation and upgrading of the flower industry in the Guanghui Demonstration Zone. Through a platform for exchange and cooperation such as the orchid exhibition, it aims to attract more investment, bring Taiwan's mature orchid cultivation technology and operation model to Guanghui and to Shenyang, and promote the development of Shenyang's orchid industry.

The Shenyang Youth Science Popularization Education Base is Shenyang's first super-large youth science popularization practice base. The education base covers an area of 703 mu, with a building area of 25,000 sq m. With the purpose of enhancing young people's enthusiasm for learning science popularization knowledge and improving young people's awareness of science popularization knowledge, with the aim of being close to and serving the broad masses of primary and secondary school students, with the core of strengthening young people's education in learning agriculture, industry and military affairs, with the focus on cultivating innovative spirit and practical ability, and with agricultural science popularization education as its feature, the base is committed to building itself into a second classroom for science popularization education for primary and secondary school students throughout the city. It is planned as "five zones and one belt," divided into the World Agricultural Expo Zone, the Fine Orchid Display Zone, the Colored Nursery Stock Zone, the Landscape Agriculture Viewing Zone, the Modern Facility Agriculture Zone and the Puhe Agricultural Leisure and Sightseeing Belt. It includes four major functional modules: agricultural science popularization education, agricultural practice experience, handmade creativity and youth field activities. It is divided into indoor and outdoor areas. The indoor base is mainly concentrated in the comprehensive building of the Science Popularization Training Center, mainly building an education and training area, a dining and accommodation area, a leisure and entertainment area and an office area, mainly carrying agricultural knowledge explanation and other supporting auxiliary functions. The outdoor base mainly builds a planting cognition area, a crop cultivation area, an outward bound training area, a livestock and poultry breeding area and an environmental protection education area, mainly carrying functions such as explaining crops in kind, crop cultivation, sports outward bound, animal breeding and environmental protection education. After the base is completed, it is expected to receive 1,000 primary and secondary school students per day and will become a second classroom for young people throughout the city to understand agriculture and experience agriculture.

 

Chen Shuangwei, Party Working Committee Secretary and Management Committee Director of the Guanghui Demonstration Zone, Zhou Haishan, Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee, Xia Junyi, Lu Wenjing and Cao Chengjia, Deputy Directors of the Management Committee, Li Chunjun and Wei Zhenwei, Assistants to the Management Committee Director, all staff of the organs and principal heads of grassroots units attended the ceremony.