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Esteemed guests domestic and abroad:
I feel greatly honored to meet you on Internet and
warmly welcome you to visit "Suzhou gardens" web site.
Suzhou is a well-known historic and cultural city as well as a
tourist city of national importance. Praised as "garden city"
since ancient time, Suzhou enjoys a high reputation worldwide due
to its possession of favorable location and excellent talents. With
a long history of two thousand odd years, Suzhou classical gardens
take a unique historic position in world gardening history of and
become specimen of Oriental gardening art by superb artistic expression
of scenery and containment of strong traditional thoughts. Suzhou
classical gardens also are artistic gems of Chinese nation. In December,
1997, Suzhou classical gardens were listed as world cultural heritage
by UNESCO Heritage Committee. Famous scenic areas, such as Tiger
Hill, Tianpin Hill and Stone Lake, enjoying the same high reputation
as Suzhou gardens, are also great tourist attractions of the world
through the ages.
It is worth mentioning that the architecture of "Ming Hall"
courtyard garden in New York, U.S.A in 1979 was the forerunner of
Chinese garden exportation while Suzhou classical gardens are the
messenger of Oriental cultural spreading. A great number of construction
projects includingSuzhou classical gardens, single structure, gardens
layout , gardens miniatures were completed in Canada, Singapore,
Japan, U.S.A, Spain, South Africa, Tai Wang, Hong Kong and so on.
Those architectures turn into "China standing cultural ambassador".
At this web site, we will introduce you the contents including
"Suzhou-style Bonsai", "Suzhou urban afforestation",
"gardens tour", "South China tiger protection and
breeding after base movement" and so forth. Furthermore, we
will introduce you garden scientific research institutions, education
units, academic bodies, garden museums and so forth.
I extend my personal sincere hope that you will enjoy yourself
at our web site.
Director of Suzhou Gardens Administration Bureau
Xuelin Yi
E-mail: webmaster@ylj.suzhou.gov.cn
Address: Gongyuan Road 255, Suzhou,Jiangsu,China
Zip code: 215006
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