Journalists from some 20 media institutions on both sides of the Taiwan Strait joining in the program of Sichuan as a Showcase of Reform and Opening-up visited the main venue of the International Horticultural Exhibition 2024 Chengdu (the Expo) on September 7 to experience the poetic life of Chengdu and the vitality of Sichuan.

The first stay during the visit was the displaying garden of the Association of Taiwan Orchid Cultivators, where they had a look of various kinds of Moth orchid (Phalaenopsis amabilis), the aboriginal species from Taiwan province. Director of the garden Zhan Haochun explained that the association brought the seeds of more than 30 rare species of Moth orchid from Taiwan province to Chengdu and had them bred and cultivated in Chengdu and put on display during the Expo. “I have a special experience at the Expo, and I wish to take the event as a platform to foster new modes for the exchange of the horticultural industry between the Strait,” he said.

The journalists got to the top of Jinyun Tower, the highest point at the venue, and enjoyed an aerial view of the venue and its surrounding areas. Chen Tao, director of the office of comprehensive management department of Chengdu Horticultural Expo Company, said the venue of the Expo is to be preserved as a functional facility in urban Chengdu after the closing of the Expo to serve as a site for promoting the optimization of the functions and the layout of the city, in order to create a new consumption venue and generate new values for social development, for living environment and industrial development in Chengdu.