Establishment of China Botanical Garden alliance to serve national ecological civilization construction

With the joint support of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the State Forestry Administration and the Ministry of housing and urban rural development, the China Botanical Garden alliance officially launched construction in Beijing on June 6, aiming to gradually improve the layout of China's botanical garden, promote the sharing of species resources, information and personnel technology exchanges between botanical gardens, and serve the development of ecological civilization and the construction of an innovative country Academician Bai Chunli, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that there are 13 botanical gardens under the Chinese Academy of Sciences or participated in the joint construction, with more than 21000 species of wild higher plants introduced and preserved, accounting for 90% of the total number of botanical gardens collected in the country, and 60% of the floristic components in China have been preserved The botanical garden not only reserves important resources for the sustainable development of national economy, but also makes an important contribution to the conservation of plant resources and Germplasm in the world He hopes to take the establishment of China Botanical Garden alliance as an opportunity to strengthen the top-level design and scientific guidance of local species conservation in the construction and development of national botanical gardens, establish a division and cooperation mechanism, avoid the conservation of homogenous species and populations, and form a network system covering the ex situ conservation of botanical gardens in different ecological types in China Zhao Shucong, director of the State Forestry Administration, said that China is one of the countries with the most abundant plant resources in the world In recent years, with the continuous development of economy and society and the gradual growth of population, the damage to the wild plant resources has become more and more serious: more than 4000 kinds of higher plants in China are facing serious threats, and more than 1000 kinds are in danger, some of which are wild There are less than 10 plants in the outer population, some of which have only one distribution point "To strengthen the protection of wild plant resources has become an important and urgent task for the construction of ecological civilization, the maintenance of biodiversity and the conservation of precious species resources." Chen Chong, chief engineer of the Ministry of housing and urban rural development, proposed that after the establishment of the China Botanical Garden alliance, the whole country should make a concerted effort to scientifically plan the construction and development orientation of the botanical garden according to the protection of plant resources and the current situation of the construction of the botanical garden, and avoid the phenomenon of repeated construction and homogenization; the ex situ protection, scientific research introduction and popular science education of rare and endangered wild plants in the region should be regarded as plants Key contents of park construction and development At the same time, combined with the local actual situation and the needs of economic and social development, we will continue to improve the comprehensive functions of the botanical garden, such as sightseeing and recreation, cultural entertainment, water storage and waterlogging prevention, disaster prevention and risk avoidance Xu Zhihong, director of the Advisory Committee of China Botanical Garden alliance and former president of Peking University, said that the Advisory Committee composed of Chinese and foreign experts will take building a beautiful China and promoting the harmonious development of human and nature as its own responsibility, and play an expert's strategic advisory role in the construction and development of the botanical garden alliance and the planning and decision-making of botanical gardens in various regions He hoped that the establishment of China Botanical Garden alliance would make new contributions to China's plant protection, China's sustainable development and people's well-being Chen Jin, director of Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences, served as the director general of China Botanical Garden alliance He introduced that at present, more than 200 botanical gardens in China are under the management of different departments, such as agriculture and forestry, urban construction, scientific research, education, medicine, and so on, which are all over the provinces and autonomous regions of the country About 70% of the native plants in the country have been introduced and preserved, and more than 30 million people visit the botanical garden every year However, due to various reasons such as system and operation mechanism, there are still many problems in the development process of national botanical garden, such as unreasonable layout, unbalanced development, scientific species collection and species conservation capacity to be strengthened "To solve the problems existing in the development of China's botanical garden and promote the steady development of China's botanical garden cause, the China Botanical Garden alliance is duty bound." Chen Jin revealed that the alliance will launch three plans, including the construction of China Botanical Garden data information platform, full coverage protection of native species, and capacity building of China Botanical Garden Among them, the plan aims to achieve the full coverage collection and safe preservation of native species through the efforts of about 10 years In the next five years, the conservation proportion of native species will be increased from 66% to 80%, and that of rare and endangered species will be increased from 34% to 70%, and the backup conservation and genetic diversity conservation of important species will be effectively increased.