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Ran HE

China National Botanical Garden (North Garden)

China is one of the countries with the richest plant diversity in the world, with more than 38,000 species of higher plants. In-situ protection and ex-situ protection are two forms of wild plant protection. The natural reserve system with national parks as the main body is the main form of in-situ protection, and the national botanical garden system is the main form of ex-situ protection. Both are indispensable, organic complementation. At present, China has established the China National Botanical Garden in Beijing and South China National Botanical Garden in Guangzhou. In the next step, we will comprehensively consider factors such as Chinas climate zones and typical vegetation zoning characteristics, biodiversity hotspots, the stability and sustainable development of plant ex-situ conservation, and select more than 10 national botanical garden candidate gardens to be included in the spatial layout to build a The 1+N national botanical garden system with the China National Botanic Garden as the core and regional botanical gardens as the support, and will gradually realize the full coverage of ex-situ protection for more than 85% of Chinas wild native plants and all key protected wild plant species, providing China plan for the protection of plant diversity. The China National Botanical Garden was officially established in December 2021. It focuses on ex-situ plant protection and has functions such as scientific research, popular science education, gardening, culture and leisure. In the future, the National Botanic Garden will collect more than 30,000 species of living plants through the construction of a specialized garden collection system, greenhouse clusters and germplasm resource banks, covering 80% of the families and 50% of the plant species in China, accounting for 10% of the worlds plant species, to undertake the responsibility for ex-situ conservation of regional plants and fulfill the mission of global species protection.