Recently, an experts group of Chenzhou Municipal Establishment Office visited Guidong county for the qualification evaluation of its application on establishment of Hunan provincial garden city.

In 2010, the target-“to establish Hunan provincial sanitary county, garden county and civilized county” was set by Guidong county government. Great achievements were reached in Guidong county after launching the establishment project of Hunan provincial garden county. Till the end of 2012, 4.066 square kilometers county area have been fulfilled in Guidong county with population of 32600, greening coverage of 1.65 million square meters, greening land area of 1.57 million square meters, and public green area of 198,500 square meters. Those achievements enabled Guidong county to be with a greening coverage rate of 40.74%, greening land rate of 38.62% and 6.09 square meters garden land per capita. Guiding county was gradually becoming a ecological livable mountainous county.

By visiting on sites, listening to reports, checking data and other ways to learn the detailed establishment work of Guidong county, the expert group confirmed that all establishment indexes handled in Guidong county were well met the standards of establishment of provincial garden county. The group qualified Guidong county to establish Hunan provincial garden county.

At the meantime, it was required by the group that further construction work on greening land, mountain parks and gardens, management of bareness, street greening, etc. should be carried out by Guidong county.