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By Vanessa Xu |
July 14, 2010, Wednesday
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THANKS to the World Expo, Hangzhou's sales of flowers, plants and trees have greatly bloomed in abundance, both for the Expo site and the beautification of the city of Shanghai.
So far this year Hangzhou has sold more than 9.2 million items of "potted horticulture," potted plants and trees, an increase of 28 percent from a year earlier.
Around 70 percent of Hangzhou's floriculture is produced at Xiaoshan in Hangzhou, and Shen Weidong, secretary general of Xiaoshan Floriculture Association, attributes the boom to World Expo.
"The international gala has brought great opportunity to Xiaoshan horticulture," he says.
To provide flowers and plants for the Expo and the city of Shanghai, around 6,560 hectares has been set aside for growing, according to the Hangzhou Statistics Bureau.
Transfar Land Co at Xiaoshan, the Expo's biggest supplier for seedlings in east China, has supplied more than 10 million seedlings of all kinds to the Expo Park, such as coleus and cineraria in flower beds along roads and morning glories twining around street lamp posts.
The company expects to sell 20 million more plants this year than last, says Wang Qiwen, sales manager of Transfar Land Co.
Biyun Garden Co in Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, also supplies flowers and plants to the Expo.
"The World Expo consumes more flowers and nursery stock since their seedlings need a 50-day growth cycle," says Pan Juming, the manager.
But the biggest opportunity does not lie in the Expo Park but in Shanghai as a whole, which has been creating green space and sprucing itself up for the Expo.
"It requires 100 million flowers to replace the old ones throughout the entire city," says Wang.
Half of Transfar's flowers are supplied to Shanghai, for both the Expo and urban area.
As Expo-related sales for beautification have soared, the market for other produce has fallen somewhat.
So far this year Hangzhou has sold more than 9.2 million items of "potted horticulture," potted plants and trees, an increase of 28 percent from a year earlier.
Around 70 percent of Hangzhou's floriculture is produced at Xiaoshan in Hangzhou, and Shen Weidong, secretary general of Xiaoshan Floriculture Association, attributes the boom to World Expo.
"The international gala has brought great opportunity to Xiaoshan horticulture," he says.
To provide flowers and plants for the Expo and the city of Shanghai, around 6,560 hectares has been set aside for growing, according to the Hangzhou Statistics Bureau.
Transfar Land Co at Xiaoshan, the Expo's biggest supplier for seedlings in east China, has supplied more than 10 million seedlings of all kinds to the Expo Park, such as coleus and cineraria in flower beds along roads and morning glories twining around street lamp posts.
The company expects to sell 20 million more plants this year than last, says Wang Qiwen, sales manager of Transfar Land Co.
Biyun Garden Co in Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, also supplies flowers and plants to the Expo.
"The World Expo consumes more flowers and nursery stock since their seedlings need a 50-day growth cycle," says Pan Juming, the manager.
But the biggest opportunity does not lie in the Expo Park but in Shanghai as a whole, which has been creating green space and sprucing itself up for the Expo.
"It requires 100 million flowers to replace the old ones throughout the entire city," says Wang.
Half of Transfar's flowers are supplied to Shanghai, for both the Expo and urban area.
As Expo-related sales for beautification have soared, the market for other produce has fallen somewhat.
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