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19 Jiangsu Glimpses

Holland Flower Park

in Dafeng,Yancheng

Tulip Encounter

Unique Love

—— Geng Chunxiao

In March, the most beautiful moment of Holland Flower
Park in Dafeng, Yancheng, has arrived.

ver a century ago,
Zhang Jian, a pioneer
O and model of Chinese
private entrepreneurs, set up Dafeng over 300 varieties, the Holland Flower
Land Reclamation Company here. Park is known as China's "top tulip flower
Besides, he hired De Rijke, a water con- park" with the largest area, the widest
servancy expert from the Netherlands, varieties, the most beautiful pattern and
and organized over 500,000 people to the most complete business forms among
launch a land reclamation project. The the counterparts. It has been awarded "the
Holland Flower Park started construc- Best Tulip Scenic Spot in the World" by
tion in Dafeng District, Yancheng City the International Tulip Summit.
in 2012 to commemorate them.
In addition to tulips, all kinds of flowers
With more than 30 million tulips of such as lilies, roses, lotuses and sunflowers