| Establishment of Taiyuan city as a eco-garden city is a significant task for our city, which should take the city on an entirely new looking and improve social economic and environment sustainable development. The author follows the eco-garden urban construction with great interest under the situation that our country is paying close attention to the environmental improvement. Therefore, the situations and approach planting trees in and around the city from China and other countries have been studied?The situation in Taiyuan city likes this: it is an arid and water shortage region is longer in winter and is windy and sandy in spring also there are serious air pollution and weak municipal infrastructures and smaller urban district area, but the history is very long. Under this condition, the total framework and approaches on eco-garden urban construction had been proposed in Taiyuan city.The eco-garden urban construction in Taiyuan city is the protection and development for present planted trees and gardens and also a new idea and require of whole urban construction at the new century. The construction must give priority to the ecological requirement and enlarge the area and space of greenery patches, in the meantime, to integrate urban and rural areas. After that the whole urban environment would be improved by large-scale forestation activities. The construction must suit measures to local conditions and also take measures suited to local problems, some tree species should be taken as the main bodies of this construction, then dispose shrub and grasses in order to increase the quality of afforestation effects as well as set up a steady long term urban eco-forest system. In accordance with the serious air pollution situation and so on in the city area, the protection tree walls around the parts of polluting source and the sand-break forest belts and water and soil protection forest belts etc. would be built. After this, the framework consisted of urban greenbelts and gardens and park sand forest and lawns should be formed. The people are the centre of the construction. Therefore educating about the sense of ecology and the idea on sustain able development is also very important. The participation of entire communities and operation of market mechanism and measures of legality should be utilized during the constructing process.The eco-garden urban construction is not only a system program but also a "procedure", so must be planned scientifically, implemented seriously and monitored strictly. |
