BEIJING: A former landfill site here will be turned into a garden, twice as large as the famed Summer Palace, an Imperial Garden in China's capital, reports Xinhua News Agency on Thursday, May 26.

The new garden, will cover 513 hectares, will be transformed into a large area of greenspace, to host the Ninth China International Garden Expo in 2013, Xinhua quoted local authorities.

The construction of the new garden including a garden museum, main exhibition hall and Yongding Tower, has begun and is expected to finish by the end of 2012,

The ninth expo, with the theme "A Green Symphony, A Green Garden", will be held along the Yongding River in Beijing from April to October of 2013, jointly by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the municipal government, said government officials at a promotional meeting on Wednesday.

The expo will be held to showcase the landscaping development and raise public awareness about harmony among people, resources and the environment, to make the world a more beautiful, harmonious place, said the officials.

The biannual expo has been held seven times since 1997 in cities including Dalian, Nanjing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Xiamen and Jinan. The upcoming 8th expo will be held in Chongqing municipality this year.

The Summer Palace landscape, dominated mainly by Longevity Hill and Kunming Lake, covers an area 2.9 square kilometres, three quaters of which is under water. — Bernama

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