Zhongshan has been holding the view of taking people as the foremost, giving prominence to environmental construction, and always stepping up urban landscaping work to improve the urban ecological environment as a key urban construction task, since May, 1996, when it was granted a National Garden City by Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. With the goal of building a high standard of ecological garden city, Zhongshan is implementing the sustainable urban development strategies and the plans for biodiversity conservation. It has been developing the garden virescence according to the policy of "Planning from High Starting-point, Constructing with a high Standard, and Managing with High-performance" and constantly consolidating the products of "National Garden City" development, while promoting economic, social development even the urban construction to a new height. It has won a number of national honors such as " "Habitat Scroll of Honor Award" granted by the United Nations (1997), "National Model City for Environment Protection" (1998), "Advanced City in the National Project of Building Civilized Cities"(1999), "China's Excellent Tourist City "(2000), the Model City of Smooth Traffic Project (2001) and so on. All the above honors are an outcome of Zhongshan's are achieved by years of handwork in landscaping construction and urban environmental construction.

1 An Overview of the Ecological Environment and Urban Construction

Since it was awarded as a National Garden City 7 years ago, Zhongshan has seized the opportunities and accelerated the development of landscape, proposed timely a new objective of constructing an ecological garden city. Its environment has been improved year by year. Until May, 2003, the coverage area of afforestation in developed areas is 1247.2 hectares, and the green coverage rate in developed area is 38.34%; the green areas in developed areas is 1142.5 hectares; the greening rate is 35.12%, and the per capita average public green areas is 10.78 square meters. Compared with the figures in 1996, the coverage area of afforestation in developed areas has increased by 411.8 hectares, the green coverage rate has increased by 2.84%; the coverage of green areas in developed ones has increased by 375.6 hectares, and the rate of green areas has increased by 2.53%, while the green areas in developed ones has increased by 8% annually; the coverage of public green areas in the developed districts has increased by 89.5 hectares, i.e. an yearly increase of 7.1%; last but not least, the per capita average public green areas has increased by 1.39 square meters.

The promotion of the urban green space has improved the environment of Zhongshan as a whole, which finds fine expression in the effective control of the various pollutions. The city's overall quality of the atmospheric environment is generally at Level?of national standards. Around the year 2002, the downtown air pollution index remained between 21-79. Concerning air quality 45.5% is good and 54.5% is just all right in the whole year. The water quality of Yiqi River, which flows through the main urban area, has been improved form Level IV to Level V after the water-drawing-and-purifying project. In 2001, Zhongshan got a high score of 86.31 in the quantitative assessment of environmental comprehensive treatment, and ranked third for four consecutive years in Guangdong Province. In 2002, it made 59.43% of the regional environmental noise areas come up to the standard. Horn-banning policy had a good effect in the urban area. The regional environmental noise averaged 54.8 db; 100% of the dust control areas came up to the standard. Sewage treatment capacity was 33.59 million tons and sewage treatment rate was 60.3 percent; downtown garbage-volume was 143,100 tons?the amount of safe landfill waste was 143,100 tons, which help achieve a 100 percent safe disposal.

The nice environment has greatly contributed to the fame of Zhongshan and therefore nurtured a good investment climate. In the Global Fortune 500 list, 22 companies have invested or built factories in Zhongshan. In 2002, 895 million dollars of foreign investment has been utilized and 4.11 million visitors have been to Zhongshan. According to authorities, Zhongshan ranked the 20th among the 200 large and medium cities in China. The improvement of the urban green space and the environment is conducive to the development of Zhongshan as a whole.

2 Consolidating and Developing "National Garden City" Achievements, Improving Continuously the Standard of Construction Landscape

Having achieved the goal of winning the honorary title of "National Garden City", Zhongshan will regard that as a new start point and continue to improve urban greening and try to build the city into one with clear water, blue sky, green lawn, blooming flowers and chirping birds.

2.1 Further Strengthening Scientific Planning for Urban Greening

For years, the City has paid prominence to the significance of planning, taking the lead in the construction of the city and contributed to improve urban greening further. In 1994, it worked out the "Zhongshan Centre City Area Greenbelt Plan (1994-2010)" (hereinafter referred to as "Plan"), and brought the plan as a part into the "General Plan for Zhongshan Urban Area". On this basis, "Management Rules and Planning Standards for Zhongshan Centre City Area Belt Construction" was formulated, which makes the stringent requirements of the various types of greenbelt building standards, and takes appropriate measures to ensure that the management of greenbelt building. In the planning process of urban construction and management, it follows in urban greening the general planning principles, namely, "protecting the old districts while building new ones, constructing the new districts well while improving the old ones" and in accordance with the "plan" requirements guarantees full landscaping and landscape sites in order to achieve the planned construction. According to the development of the situation and the provincial government’s requirements of constructing a city group in Pearl River delta, Zhongshan Municipal Government organized experts to revise the "Systematic Plan for Zhongshan Greenbelt (2003-2020)" in 2003. The urban green line plan and the recent greenbelt system implementation rules would be clearly put forward in this revised plan. Meanwhile, the research of "Zhongshan biodiversity conservation plan and implementation plan" and "soil conservation and ecological environment construction plan" would also be launched. Now the initial investigation into the status of urban greenbelt system has been completed. 

While paying attention to urban planning at the same time, the City increases the greenbelt building investment, strengthens conservation and management of valuable and old trees concerning the greenbelt management, and constantly consolidates the greening achievements, gets down to improving the urban ecological environment, and gradually reaches the long-term goal made in the "plan". It will complete all kinds of greenbelt and garden building projects in the center, continue to raise the level of gardens and greenbelt conservation and management, improve the urban green ecological environment of the downtown areas and expand the infiltration and links not mentioned in the plan in order to form a urban greenbelt system with harmonization and combination of internal and external urban areas.

2.2 Continued Efforts to Improve the Former Parks, Gardens and Green Areas

In recent years, a large-scale comprehensive treatment of the environment in the city has been carried out, and the area of the parks, gardens and green areas witness an enlargement. In 1997, the area of roadside green land has increased by 18, 000 square meters; in 1998, the area of green land has increased by nearly 100 thousand square meters. Since the end of 1997, the banks of the Qijiang River has been treated comprehensively with roadside gardens and public green areas established. In addition, the Fuhua Road has been improved and a host of flowers and foliage plants has been planted, making it secondary only to the Xingzhong Road, the latter of which boasts the best one in the city. In 2000, the comprehensive treatment of the Qijiang River was completed and the area of new green land and sidewalk was 43 thousand square meters. In 2001, the Xingzhong Road was improved with more and more ornamental flowers added. In the same year, nearly 40 urban greening places has been transformed, with a 350- thousand- square- meter area of green land added. In 2002, 65 thousand square meters of green land was also added along flyovers of Bo'ai Road, Guangming Bridge and around Zhongshan Citizens’ Sports Centers. 

In the construction of parks, Zhongshan government is strictly in accordance with the "Specifications for Park Design" from the point of view of ecological construction. 70% of each park has been green land. Business projects in the park are strictly controlled. At present, the transformation of the old parks has been planned, including Zhongshan Park, Yixianhu Park and Yueshan Park, etc. Meanwhile the planning of Wumafeng Park (with an area of 152.8 hectares) and Wushan Park (with an area of 13.3 hectares) has been worked out. Some new parks have already been built one by one. The construction of Dr. Sun Yat-sen Memorial Park has already been expanded into the second stage, while Qijiang Park, covering an area of 10 hectares, has also been built and is the first park to embrace the theme of industry. The latter has become a new scenic spot in Zhongshan. That park design project got the highest awards - Honor Design Award in the United States Landscape Designers Association annual meeting, 2002. And Zhongshan also won the "Project Construction Awards". In 2001, Global Tone Park, the first to be funded by a corporation, with an area of 1.8 hectares, has also been built. It is a small district-level park with distinctive features of the time and is also the first on-limits park named by a company which provides 3 million Yuan for building the park. Moreover, the Green Passage in the east of the city, covering an area of 14.4 hectares, has been built with the government's investment of 10,000,000 Yuan. With large-area tree-planting and increased greenbelts a forest has been "transplanted" into this passage, bringing peace to the citizens. To match Xingzhong Road, Xingzhong Square has been built, covering an area of 1.18 hectares. In 2003, Lanbowan Park was established with the green area of 20,000 square meters, 18.5 million Yuan investment. All the parks have become the resorts in the citizens’ spare time and a limelight in the urban green place.

In terms of the construction of the green land along roads, it has been planned, built, checked and accepted in accordance with the green lands and the infrastructure of the city. During the course of green land construction of the road, different virescence types are made according to their different geographical locations. Then the project design plans are made respectively. Tree species are selected scientifically to guarantee that different roads are in different sight view of various trees. Ever since the city has become the "National Garden City", improving the road construction standards has become an important measure to improve the investment environment. The urban road construction is strongly accelerated with the synchronized development of urban virescence course. 20 million Yuan has been spent on the road greening every year. From 1996 to 2002 new roads such as he Bo’ai Road and Changjiang Road were constructed while old ones like Xingzhong Road and Huabai Road were improved. The area of urban road green land has increased by 16.3 hectares while that of the total road green land has increased by 36.2 hectares. At present, the total length of urban roads reaches 130 km and the virescence rate is over 98% including 80% coming up to standards. The urban trunk roads greenbelt area is 25% more than total road area.

After recent years of large-scale construction, Zhongshan regards ecological benefits as the focus to build roads and green landscape roads. Xingzhong Road, among the first category, witnessed a face-lift in 2001, with coconut palms planted as the major sight and with mango trees along the road, which has also been ornamented with flowers. The rate of green area on this road has been 48.3%. The roads in the city have also found application in the urban green belt. Zhongshan government also used the urban throughway to build new greenbelts expecting to form a beautiful greenbelt around the city. In the first phase of Bo’ai Road greenbelt, the total length is eight kilometers and the width 30 meters with a mixed variety of trees planted, which improve the ecological pest control and disease prevention capacity. Its green rate is over 28.5 percent with the cultivation of 5 tree species and over 4,000 arbor trees. In the dividing strip area of the road a large-scale of multi-species trees, multi-color-planting shrubs are planted. 10 different species changed the previous dull avenue which accumulated valuable experience for the construction of South Waihuan Road, Bei Huanlu, and National 105 Road. Meanwhile the virescence of the 3rd and 4th Zhongshan Road, Kanghua Road with single species were rebuilt to be a landscape road, with diverse plant species. For some avenues, the city landscape management department strengthens the management of the maintenance to guarantee its strong growth, uniform and good shade effect. In terms of the virescence design of the road, Zhongshan government focuses on diversity of landscape planting, and a color ribbons, the pursuit of a strong and distinctive color effects to add bright spot for the city. It also attempts to design the virescence of some traffic islands of the new-built or alteration road, from the pursuit of single color shrubs to the development of shrubs with arbors, a variety of color patterns, increasing road intersection of three-dimensional landscape and strengthening the road identity. It also pays attention to shrubs modeling and strives to make diverse species. At the same time, perennial flowers are planted and displayed in the urban landscape roads and important areas. About 800,000 pots of flowers are planted every year on the main road such as Xingzhong Road, Fuhua Road, the road before Zhongshan People's Hospital, and so on.

In term of the construction of residential areas, Zhongshan government implements the policy of "Four Simultaneity", that is, planning, designing, building, checking and accepting the greening projects and construction projects at the same time. For the real estate development, in accordance with the principle of "unified planning, rational distribution, comprehensive development, supporting establishment", it upholds the delegation-style development to plan and construct a good project. In recent years, enough virescence land is planned and left in the dozens of residential quarters built in accordance with the regulations. Zhongshan government also attaches great importance to creating a living environment of "community coexistence with nature" to provide good living environment but also increases the overall level of urban greening. In July 2002, residential districts like "Yongjing Garden," "Sunshine garden" are in the list of 9 "National Excellent Well-off Residential Districts" awarded by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development 21 residential quarters (Mansion) were granted "National Property Management Model (Excellent) Residential District". At present, the garden-style residential areas take up 60%.

In brief, compared with 1996, the area of parks, gardens and other green land has increased by 411.8 hectares in 2003, including an increase of 89.5 hectares of public green area. Street greenbelts and small parks are found everywhere in the urban area.

2.4 To Strengthen the Functions of Professional Landscape Management, Make Relevant Laws and Regulations and Standards, to Further Strengthen the Urban Landscape Maintenance and Administration Work
Zhongshan has always attached importance to the management of green space, and invest more than 20 million Yuan (not including the district-level investment funds) in public green space conservation management every year. The following section explains its specific approaches. First, to promote the reform of the management system. Since June 2002, according to the spirit of the document of non-profit institutions reform, the former Zhongshan Garden Management Office has been restructured comprehensively to be a state-owned enterprise, named Zhongshan Garden Construction and Development Company. Zhongshan Garden Management Department was also re-established according to the principles of separating administration from public affairs, public affairs from enterprises, which makes the function change from the past organizations in the landscape of custody operations to the urban landscape for the supervision and management, maintaining equal competition among different industries, developing trade policy and corresponding rules and regulations. In December 2002, Zhongshan government set up the "Zhongshan Urban Landscaping Work Coordinating Group", which functions on behalf of the municipal government coordinating the work of urban landscape and grading work. The restructured Zhongshan Garden Construction and Development Company is responsible for the management of the urban landscape conservation management commissioned by Zhongshan Garden Management Department according to relevant contract. Second, it implements the sub-unit self-management mode. Each district office employs its fulltime virescence workers maintain its own public green space and roads. Each unit and residential quarters hire professional urban landscape construction enterprises to keep the virescence work. These measures and systems laid a solid foundation for high-quality green management. In the future Zhongshan will further strengthen professional urban landscape management functions to do a good job in urban landscape management industry. On the basis of Zhongshan Garden Society, Zhongshan City Landscape Association was established to promote exchanges between garden enterprises. Zhongshan government made the relevant trade management policies, regulations and methods including "Zhongshan City Virescence Regulations", criteria for the corresponding urban greening maintenance, construction specifications and requirements and standards for the city greening fees etc., in order to cultivate and improve the market system, standardize market behavior, create the conditions for a comprehensive opening of building and conservation management, gradually introduce market competition mechanism, implement bidding management, and establish a new systematic operating mechanism of the landscape design, construction and maintenance, which is adaptive to market economy.

2.5 The Protection of the Old Trees, Famous Trees and Big Trees
The protection of the old trees, famous trees and big trees has always been given priority in the city. Two censuses have been carried out concerning the trees and the results have been announced. The old trees, famous ones and big ones in the developed areas have been registered and protected from termites. The 336 registered trees are now growing well. 

2.6 Further Efforts in the Construction of Seedbeds in Need of Gardens' Virescence Construction
In recent years, the rapidly developing market has promoted the construction of seedbeds in Zhongshan. The features of the seedbeds construction in this city are: the quantity and area of seedbeds are increasing, the latter of which has increased by 334 hectares annually; the varieties are in a reasonable range. The greening seedlings, grass needed on the lawns and ornamental flowers have all been developed proportionally. The industry of greening seedlings has witnessed a development and the seedbeds that cover an area of more than 100 acres amounts to 187. The city's existing area of flower seedlings is about 3,400 hectares, which includes completed district-level green area of 72.3 hectares accounting for 2.22% of built-up areas. The self-sufficiency rate of green flowers and green seedlings is over 80 percent. The green seedlings are sold to Hong Kong, Macau and other cities of Guangdong province and other provinces of China. 

2.7 To Improve the Urban Landscape Management Regulations and Further Strengthen Management According to Regulations and Laws
Since it was entitled "National Garden City", Zhongshan enacted "Zhongshan Central Zone Landscaping Management Regulations" on the basis of "Rules for Zhongshan Urban Virescence Management" in 1996, which clearly defines that the trees migration, deforestation, update, and green space impropriation must undergo the strict examination and approval process. In August 2002, Zhongshan landscape management department was re-established. After that, "Zhongshan Urban Virescence Management Approaches" was released. According to the "Statute for Urban Virescence of Guangdong Province" and "Urban Green Line Management Approach", Zhongshan government drafted the "Zhongshan Urban Virescence Management Regulations" and in 2003 enacted the "Standards for Urban Virescence Charge", which make the landscape work gradually standardized. At the same time, in order to strengthen the administrative and law enforcement work, the inspection lochus was set up, which was in December 2002 incorporated into the newly founded City Management Administrative Law Execution Bureau. After the establishment of the bureau, it seriously carries out their law enforcement responsibilities of urban management, in particular, increases law enforcement in the urban landscape work. from September 2002 to April 2003, it handled 92 law violation cases of destroying the green space and consolidated effectively the urban Landscaping fruits. During the year 1996-2002, serious cases of damaging virescence did not happen in Zhongshan central area.

2.8 To Further Strengthen Scientific Research and Raise the Scientific and Technological Level of Landscape Virescence
Recently, the science and technology of gardening greening has been improved in Zhongshan. More than 100 professionals are engaged in the research of garden greening (not including private landscaping business). Zhongshan has accelerated its urban virescence construction in the planning and design, construction, selection breeding, cultivation and other aspects of conservation by means of advanced science and technology, enhanced the level of landscaping, and of course made certain achievements. Through investigation, observation and filtration to different plant species, more than 50 species were identified as the major plants that will be used in the urban environment and enrich the city's species resources. Cooperated with Sub-Tropical Forestry Research Institute Of China Forestry Research Institute, Zhongshan has implemented "three-zone in one district" measures to inspect the ecological effects since 2000. This institute equipped with advanced facilities and equipment and carried out plant quarantine to control plant diseases and insect pests, and effective forecasting to prevent a major pest and disease hazards. For instance, the palm leaf beetle pest in various nursery gardens of Zhongshan was found in time in 2000 to effectively control the spread of the pest in the city. Nursery Garden Factory of Zhongshan Garden Construction and Development Company, through scientific and technological research, actively carried out the key problem of F1 flowers breeding, and bred a total of 4 million pots of flowers from 1996 to 2002. In 2001, Zhongshan took advantage of the 7th Chrysanthemum Exhibition of China, which was be held in Zhongshan City, and selected and shown nearly 1,000 kinds of fine chrysanthemum from all over the country, which was highly praised by exhibitors from all sectors of society. Agricultural Bureau of Zhongshan Municipal Government, cooperating with the township agricultural office and nursery stock enterprises, worked hard in borrowing and breeding all kinds of garden plants. Xiaolan Town, as the land of flowers and trees, has bred a variety of palm garden plants.

Zhongshan has got significant achievements in Garden Planning and Design and scientific research. In November 1999, the planning and design of Sunwen Memorial Park got second prize of outstanding engineering design in Guangdong Province. Both "Sunwen Memorial Park Comprehensive Greening Projects" and "the Municipal Government Courtyard Greening Project" won the title of "Zhongshan Model Project” in 1998.The "Niuweimei" three-dimensional flower beds produced by the Garden Management Department and the "Tulip Cultivation techniques and flowering control technology" won the Zhongshan Science and Technology Progress Award (the 3rd place) in the year 1997. The project "Zhongshan Urban Landscape Planning Research and Information System Development", carried out by Zhongshan Garden Landscape Management Department and Planning and Design Centre of Beijing University, won the Zhongshan Science and Technology Progress Award (1st place) and Guangdong Province Science and Technology Progress Award (the 3rd place in 1998. issue results in Zhongshan City Science and Technology Progress Award and won the first prize of. In the year 2000, "Dali Chrysanthemum florescence controlling technology" won the Zhongshan Science and Technology Progress Award (3rd place) of the year 1999.

2.9 To Further Strengthen Citizen’s Voluntary Tree-planting Work to Build a Green System of Urban and Rural Integration
For years, the city-wide tree planting campaign has been launched in Zhongshan, mobilizing the citizens to participate in the planting to deepen and develop the voluntary tree-planting campaign. A good social practice of forestation, loving and protecting forest gradually is coming into being and becoming the real action of citizens. In the recent five years, 87.7% of the citizens on the right age participate in the voluntary tree-planting campaign. 100% of the trees in the urban area have their own cards. The survival and preservation rate is higher than 85%. In this voluntary tree-planting campaign people can donate some money instead of planting trees themselves, the amount of which reaches 5.5 million Yuan. The number of trees planted in the campaign is over 1,000,000 which take up over 20,000 acreage. In the process of organizing the voluntary tree planting campaign, Zhongshan implemented the voluntary tree-planting system, gradually established a system of leaders participating in tree planting at the scene, the voluntary tree-planting registration card system, voluntary tree-planting base system, the check and acceptance system and the greening fee collection and management system. After several years of unremitting efforts, the afforestation level of Zhongshan has steadily increased. Rural and urban afforestation have achieved remarkable results. For instance, two towns, Xiaolan and Goshen, were named "One of 100 Best National Afforestation Towns" at the same time, and Xiaolan was also been honored as a "National Land of Flowers and Trees". 

In order to implement the strategy of sustainable development, Zhongshan launched a comprehensive activity of building state-level ecological demonstration area, proposed an objective of building Zhongshan a modern famous tourism city with blue sky, clear water, and pretty sightseeing, and draw a new blueprint of urban and rural integration. In order to achieve this blueprint, Zhongshan government implemented the forest improvement project named "Three Lines in One District ", which is the forest transformation along the nearest mountains of Changjiang tourist area, the eastern line, the center line and the western lines expected to transform a total area of 4618.6 hectares. By the end of 2002, it is expected to complete a total area of 17,950 Mus to adjust the source of forest species and the structure with tree species numbers from 133 to 192. From the year 2000 to 2002, it launched the project of ”Four Sides” (sides of rivers, villages, houses and roads) virescence and planned fruit trees in the mountainous region with slopes below 25 degree. All the countries and towns completed 830,000 individual plants in the planning planting area with the length of 788 kilometers, planted fruit all kinds of fruit seedlings in the mountainous slope area of 5,762 acres. The ecological forest system with multi-species, multi-color, multi-level, and multi-function is gradually coming into being. The green system consisted of “garden city, forestized rural areas, rural roads with boulevards, farmers’ courtyard with flowers and fruit trees" is gradually being established. It is understood that the mountain virescence rate reaches 96 percent, and the forestation rate is 22.6 percent. The number of fine exotic species is about 59, which makes the net increase of 2.2 percent from the previous negative growth. The structure of tree and forest species has been initially improved and the forest resources show a virtuous circle of good momentum. On March 2003, the Sixth Conference of the 11th Municipal People's Congress passed a resolution that will establish the municipal nature reserve of the Changjiang reservoir area. The nature reserve is located in Wuguishan mountainous area at the edge of Jiancheng district, with a total area of 6.36 million Mus. The urban protective green space takes up 504.72 hectares, and the farmland protective areas takes up 21164.46 Mus.

2.10 To Further Strengthen Propaganda Work of Landscape Virescence and Enhance Public Awareness of Maintaining and Loving Virescence Projects
In order to make the citizens fully aware of the significance of garden greening, the newspaper Zhongshan Garden has been published by Zhongshan Garden Department since 1996 and handed out to the city residents for free. In addition, a TV documentary named “New Zhongshan Covered with Gardens” has been prepared and televised. Exhibitions of flowers have also been displayed. In addition to television, radio, newspapers and other media, Zhongshan also makes use of many channels to carry out propaganda work such as exhibitions, appraisals, training and so on. Zhongshan government organized many activities such as the large tulip exhibition in 1997, three-term city flower exhibitions, "Photographic Competition of Zhongshan Garden Achievements", two-term conference of ikebana art appreciation, the 7th China (Zhongshan) Chrysanthemum Breeds Exhibitions in 2001, the First Lotus Show in Zhongshan in 2002 and so on, which were notable successes with broad masses’ active participation. In order to mobilize the green building initiative of all trades, Zhongshan government mobilized all the units, factories and companies, and residential quarters to participate in the activity of greening and beautifying the courtyard to enhance the overall urban greening level. It also actively carried out the activity of building "Garden-style Units (residential quarters)" and "Advanced Landscape Units", effectively promoted the subsidiary greenbelt construction of different units and residential areas. So far 38 garden-style units (residential quarters), 84 advanced landscape units and 10 advanced landscaping residential quarters have been selected from the whole city. At present, the number of garden-style residential districts, units coming to the virescence standards and advanced units takes up 60%, 70% and 20% respectively. People raised awareness of loving and maintaining the virescence projects continuously and the phenomenon of destructing public virescence is reducing. A good practice of loving garden virescence facilities is coming into being gradually.

Since it was awarded as National Garden City 7 years ago, under the guidance of people-oriented principle, Zhongshan has upheld the approach of planning, constructing and managing effectively the projects from a high starting point, increased more investment, and continuously push forward the process of urbanization. The Landscape and urban construction are developing synchronously. Zhongshan is gradually establishing its excellent image with optimized urban functions, well protected ecological and beautiful environment. In the future, Zhongshan will continue to consolidate and develop the achievements of "National Garden City", make more positive efforts to making itself a modernized celebrity’s city with blue sky, green water, green town and beautiful scenery.