South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), affiliated to the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is the biggest south subtropical botanical garden in the world. Founded in 1929 by Woon-young Chun and formerly named as Institute of Agriculture and Forestry in Sunyatsen University or South China Institute of Botany of the CAS, the garden is a center of botanical research, biodiversity conservation, scientific education and resource utilization and development, as well as an oasis in the city of Guangzhou-333 ha. of beautiful horticultural display, including magnolias, gingers, palms,orchids and some other special collections with about 13,000 species of living plants.
Longdong Qilin was designated as one of the best new scenic spots of Guangzhou. The World of Plants, SCBG Conservatory, was designed as four giant “kapok flowers”, adopted the city flower of Guangzhou, emerge silently in SCBG in the overlook of Guangzhou municipality. The first village of Guangzhou and a zonal vegetation garden, a conservation center for rare and endangered plants, urban ecological sight garden, and a center for science communication have been constructed with a total investment of RMB 300,000,000 yuan by Guangzhou municipality, Guangdong provincial government and the CAS.