Beijing Botanical Garden

The Beijing Botanical Garden was completed in the year 1955. It covers 564,000 square meters. There are a dozen exhibition parts, including the Tree Garden, Perennial Bulb Garden, Rose Garden, Peony Garden, Traditional Chinese Medical Herb Garden, Wild Fruit Resources District, Environment Protection Plant District, Water and Vine Plant District, Endangered Plant District, and Exhibition Greenhouses for tropical and subtropical plants.

Historical attractions can also be found here, including Cao Xueqin (a celebrated novelist of China, is well-known for his masterpiece: A Dream of Red Mansions.) Memorial Hall, Tomb of Liang Qichao (a famous reformist in the late Qing Dynasty), Temple of the Sleeping Buddha (constructed early in the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and December 9th Pavilion (built in memory of the December 9th Movement, which took place in 1935 and called for an end to the civil war and resistance towards the Japanese aggressors).