Praised By CCTV! Two Green Sculptures, A True Story From Here To The World!

Yancheng has the longest coastline, the largest beachland and the widest sea area in Jiangsu Province, and it is the only city in China with the international titles of "World Natural Heritage" and "International Wetland City". In the habitat of migratory birds, red-crowned cranes, elk and spoonbill sandpipers roam freely, which are not only the "elves" of nature, but also the symbols of good ecology in the area.

Some people may still remember that 37 years ago, at the beginning of the construction and protection of Yancheng wetlands, about China's first environmental martyr Xu Xiujuan "a true story". On 11 January this year, "a true story" three-dimensional flower bed unveiling ceremony was held in Yancheng, through the garden in the form of cultural creativity, the city's ecological background and development story, once again seen by the world.

Beginning with "A True Story

In the 1980s, in order to improve the ecological environment and save the then critically endangered Danding Cranes, the Coastal Mudflat Rare Bird Nature Reserve was established in Yancheng, where the Danding Cranes winter every year. 1986, Xu Xiujuan, a 22 year-old crane girl, travelled from the Zalong Nature Reserve of Heilongjiang Province southward with 3 eggs of Danding Cranes in her arms, with the plan of cultivating an artificial population to enhance the stability of Danding Crane flocks in the area. She became the first director of the reserve's crane farm.

Xu Xiujuan's family has been raising cranes for generations, and her father once told her, "Raising cranes is a job that the country needs, so you have to do it practically, and you can't lose when it gets tough." She took it to heart. No matter how hard the conditions were at the beginning of the construction of the reserve, she did not have a single complaint.

Danding cranes were all Xu Xiujuan had. At that time, artificial incubation was a worldwide problem. But she succeeded in hatching all three eggs by warming them with her body heat. The young cranes, which had just broken out of their shells, were very sensitive to temperature, so she held them in her arms and nest day and night. Under her careful care, the wings of the cranes became fuller and fuller every day. 1987, a cranes lost their young, Xu Xiujuan looked for two days, and when she heard that someone heard the cranes singing by the river, she dragged her tired body into the water again and went into the depths of the wetland, but never came back.

This true story, once touched countless people, as the prototype of the song "a true story", is more sincere, tear-jerking.

Over the past 40 years, under the efforts of countless "Xu Xiujuan", the story of people and cranes has been staged in Yancheng, and gradually formed a set of mature artificial breeding and rearing techniques for cranes, with the number of native cranes in the area exceeding 200. 2007, the reserve was renamed Jiangsu Yancheng Wetland Rare Bird National Nature Reserve.

The good ecological environment not only attracts countless elf-like migratory birds, but also attracts tourists from home and abroad. Huangjian Town is close to the Rare Bird Nature Reserve, according to the town's deputy party secretary, mayor of the town YuSiNong introduction, in recent years, Huangjian Town adhere to build international wetland tourism preferred destination, "world heritage sites, and the beauty of the habitat" as the development of the kernel, with the use of the "cranes, the sea, salt, forests With the four elements of "crane, sea, salt and forest" as the core of development, it has made full use of the four elements of "crane, sea, salt and forest" to build an intertidal art village.

The second story, from Yancheng to the world

On 11th January, the unveiling ceremony of the three-dimensional flower bed with the theme of "A True Story" and the exchange activity of "Artistic Creation on the Theme of Danding Crane" was held in Yancheng Intertidal Art Village. The event invited international experts such as Vincent, former director of the Montreal Botanical Gardens and an internationally renowned botanist, Pierre, former director of the Montreal Parks and Cities Authority and organiser of the 2013 International Three-dimensional Flower Bed Competition, and André, secretary-general of the Board of Directors of the International Three-dimensional Flower Bed of Canada. Guests from China and Canada expressed their views on how to use the Danding Crane elements to write a good ecological civilisation story, how to practice ecological protection paths and other issues.

In fact, this is the second appearance of "a true story" three-dimensional flower beds, as early as 2013, the then Deputy Director of the Shanghai Huangpu District Greening Management Department Lin Xiaofeng to "a true story" as the inspiration for the creation of works, participated in the international three-dimensional flower beds competition held in Montreal, Canada. The work was designed by Shanghai Tiangong Landscape Architecture.

The work was designed by Wei Zhongxin, designer of Shanghai Tiangong Landscape Architecture Design Office Co., Ltd, and created on site by Li Haigen, a master of domestic three-dimensional flower bed production and chairman of Shanghai Haigen Flower Co. Exquisite flower beds, touching story touched the judges and countless audience, the international three-dimensional flower beds chairman Liz was in tears, before the announcement of the results, she said: "such a touching story, such an excellent work, I think we can congratulate Shanghai in advance to win the award."