327,000 visitors flock to Expo over International Workers’ Day holiday
The
Beijing International Horticultural Exhibition received about 327,000 visitors
during the four-day International Workers’ Day holiday, The Beijing News
reported on May 5.
More
than 734,000 tourists visited the most popular venues at the exhibition, such
as the China Pavilion, the International Pavilion, the Life Experience
Pavilion, the Botany Pavilion and the Guirui Theater, Lei Lei, an official with
the organizing committee told The Beijing News.
China
opened the world's largest ever gardening show on April 29 in the Beijing
suburb of Yanqing. During the 162-day exhibition, visitors will be able to
enjoy more than 1,200 varieties of flowers in 100 gardens and about 2,500 shows
and cultural events.
The
organizer expects to welcome more than 16 million visitors to the exhibition,
the Xinhua News Agency reported.
Named “Expo
at the Foot of the Great Wall,” the exhibition occupied an area of 503
hectares, equivalent to almost 704 football pitches.
It is
the second time for China to hold the horticultural show. The city of Kunming
in Southwest China's Yunnan Province held the International Horticultural
Exposition in 1999.
During
the International Workers’ Day holiday, some 132 activities were staged by
performers from China, central and eastern European countries, such as float
parades, world ethnic and folk cultural performances, and cultural and art
carnivals, Xinhua said.
Source:
Global Times
Decorated Float Parade welcomes
tourists to the Beijing International Horticultural Exhibition received during
the four-day International Workers' Day Holiday. (Photo by He Yong from People’s
Daily)
327,000 visitors flock to Expo over International Workers’ Day holiday
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