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Expo

The world expo park is in the eastern city of shenyang, located in an area of 203 square km of landscape in shenyang qipan mountain international tourism zone. Here, the scenery is beautiful and pleasant, just like a giant painting of the landscape. In 2006, the world expo was hold here. In that expo, 23 countries and 52 cities took part in it.

The theme of that expo is “we live in harmony with the nature ”, here , the “we” means shenyang, China and the world, and it also means the city, the earth, and our human beings. The symbol of the expo is made up of rose, earth, machine tool. Rose is the city flower of shenyang, the machine tool means that shenyang is an important equipment industry base of China. the earth means the world. The color change from red to green, means that shenyang has changed from a polluted city to be a environmental city. The mascot is a magpie named “yangyang”, symbolize shenyang’s vigorous and enthusiasm, it also show the wish that shenyang give the fortune to the world.

It has 4 characteristics, the first is that this is the only expo hold in the forests, the second is it has the specialty of northern China, the third is that it shows the culture with the city as the unit, the forth is that it take advantage of the solar and wind energy, which is quite environmental.

This park was built on the site of shenyang botanical garden, there are 246 hectares of core area and 500 hectares of background area. As there are more than 2000 kinds of rare plants here, the well-known world horticulture expo design master Nick Innocent once said it is the only expo in the world that is hold in the forests.

Expo divided into the main entrance plaza area, southern and northern district, here has 3 kind of landscape, the natural ecological landscape, artificial landscape and waterfront wetland landscape. There are 4 famous buildings, the wind wings, rose garden, lily tower and the comprehensive museum. More than 100 exhibitions, including 23 international exhibition garden park, 53 national parks and 24 special exhibition show garden category.

What we see now is the wings of the wind. The construction area is 4168 square meters, the main tower is 72 meters in height, the whole building is unique, forceful, just like the phoenix wings, symbolize the revitalization of shenyang. When the night fall, with city nights as the theme, the expo bright transparent tower as the center, using an integrated lighting system, it crest an lamplight, unique night.

Now, this is the welcome plaza, the theme is the source of life, it is 40m in width, it is made up of flowers, trees and music fountain. It just like a passionate people, welcome you with open arms. Compared with the enthusiasm here , the sheds which are embellished with flowers, formed a comfortable demure leisure culture there, filled there with a sense of leisure and comfortable.

The north district covers an area of 110 hectares, it is 1560m from north to south and 1260m from west to east. the highest elevation is about 109m, the lowest point is about 70m. here is rich in natural vegetation, and the main buildings are all located here. Such as the rose garden, the lily tower, the comprehensive museum and some exhibition parks.

Now, we go to the rose garden, as the city flower of shenyang is rose, so this garden was build here. It covers an area of 10,000 square m, more than 3000 kinds of roses are planted here, it is the world’s richest rose garden. It use a ground-source heat pump heating technology, both energy-saving and environment-friendly, even if the outside is ice and snow, the rose garden is still warm as in spring, so the rose garden will bloom with roses throughout the year. As the rose is a symbol of love, it will be available for weddings.

Out of the rose garden, what we see now is the lily tower, it is the largest sculpture building at home and abroad. This tower symbolize the theme of the expo, means that everything grow and develop vigorously as the lily. It covers an area of 500 square meters, 125m in height, equivalent to a35-story high-rise. It is the highest building in the park, there is a 2-tier viewing platform for visitors at the height about 95 to 100m. the tourism floor covers an area of 400square meters, it can hold 200people at most. The closed-end high-speed elevators runs 2.5m per second, so it only take visitors 40seconds to reach the top. Lily tower, just as the Eiffel tower in Paris, they are the great buildings left by expo.

Now, we come to the last main building-comprehensive museum, the construction area is 12,000 square meters, this is the largest indoor flower exhibition hall in our country, what we see now is the dove of peace, this is a mosaic mural. Here, through a variety of exhibitions and event, it shows the scientific, informative, interesting and interactive.