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Unveiling the BCI Cooperation Center This page; The World
in the city Kunming Horti-Expo Garden, an
Our next destination was Kunming. We travelled international botanical
by bus from Shuyang to Nanjing and then flew to garden that has become a
significant Kunming landmark
Kunming. We were welcomed and accompanied by and covers an area of 218
Mr. Zhou, whose ancestral business was Tea and is hectares.
now one of the largest growers of Bonsai in the region.
Kunming in Yunnan province of China is famous
for Landscape Architecture. Home to 26 of China’s
55 national minorities, Yunnan is a gold mine of
diversity and tradition. Kunming is ideal for growth
of temperate and sub-tropical bonsai trees due to its
hilly elevated areas.
BCI’s 3rd Cooperation Center in Kunming will offer
cooperation and encouragement for the development
of bonsai and horticulture. The unveiling ceremony
was arranged in a hotel with all bonsai growers from
the area present. The plaque unveiling was done by
Mr. I.C. Su, BCI Honorary Chairman and Mr. Lee Ke
Wen, Vice Chairman of the China Bonsai Association.
The board members were later entertained with a
demonstration of their traditional and elaborate tea
ceremony.
In the afternoon we were taken to the World
Horti-Expo Garden, a botanical garden center.
It played host to the October 1999 Kunming
International Horticulture Exposition. As an
international botanical garden, the Expo Garden
has become a significant Kunming landmark and
covers an area of 218 hectares. We were driven
around in a special cart past beautifully designed
and maintained gardens of various provinces of

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