China’s National Botanical Gardens: An innovative model to support global biodiversity conservation and sustainable development
•China's National Botanical Gardens (NGBs) target to protect 70% of threatened species by 2035.•NBGs implement ex situ conservation, scientific research, resource utilization, public education, and horticultural display.•NBGs and China's National Parks create a robust two-pronged approach that combines <i>ex situ</i> and <i>in situ</i> conservation.•NBGs contribute to global biodiversity targets by sharing conservation technologies and germplasm resources.
Authors
- Liangchen Yuan
- Hai Ren
- Peter Jackson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6002-8166)
- Tuo He (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2217-1367)
- Guo Li-xin
- Miaomiao Zheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1630-1794)
- Yue Qin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2248-7799)
- Hui Dong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5021-1349)
- Zhihua Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9822-6889)
- Yu‐Feng Gu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4089-3937)
- Y Wang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9365-0560)
Institutions
- Missouri Botanical Garden (US)
- South China Botanical Garden (CN)
- State Forestry and Grassland Administration (CN)
- China National Botanical Garden
Publication Details
- Journal
- Plant Diversity
- Published
- 2025-11-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pld.2025.11.005
- Primary Topic
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00