Shanghai will have a new botanic garden by 2010.
The Chenshan Botanic Garden, now under construction near Sheshan Hill in Songjiang District, will be home to more than 6,000 varieties of plants, making it the biggest of its kind in Shanghai.
Covering 202 hectares, the garden will be roughly three and a half times larger than Shanghai Botanic Garden. The "world-class" new garden, according to the Shanghai Construction Commission, will also be used as a botanical research and education base.
(Shanghai Daily December 10, 2007)
