On October 12th, Ministry of Construction issued the "Publication on National Ecological Garden City, National Garden City, county and town naming list in 2017", 137cities and counties included, in which Guiyang County was named the National Garden County.
In recent years, Guiyang County took creating the National Garden County as an important measure to improve the living environment and create the city image, and strived to promote the creation of National Garden County. The county put the creation fund into the budget and invested 3.02 billion yuan in urban greening and infrastructure construction for urban ecological restoration, green construction upgrading and municipal infrastructure construction in recent 5 years. The county adhered to the planning guide, combined the county green system planning, city landscape environmental protection planning, old city reconstruction planning and urban ecological construction planning into the overall planning, and strived to create a ecological garden county of "mountain in the city, city in the forest, people in the green". At present, the number of parks, small gardens, green squares and streets in Guiyang County has increased to 21 and the coverage rate of green space service radius has reached 83.02%.
The county also actively carried out the planning green, demolition of houses to increase green, renting lands to build green and other planning to promote the ecological garden greening. In the past five years, the county has built 6 squares, 5 parks and 1 belt, including the Chaoyang Square, Yingxun Square, Gongji Square, Pearl Square, East Tower Square, Xishuiyuan Plaza, Emerald Park, Kirin Mountain Park, Baoshan National Mine Park, Martyrs Cemetery, Guiyang Cultural Park and the river scenic belt, and improved the East Tower Park, Ouyanghai Square, Cailun Recreational Plaza, Bazitang Garden and Flowers Garden. All kinds of green land increased significantly and the greening indicators improved remarkably. The county made clear the annual key work arrangements for the establishment of the National Garden Town, signed the responsibility contract and implemented the work one by one; established the strict reward and punishment mechanism, and linked the task implementation with the objective assessment, leading achievements and cadre appointment to effectively mobilize the enthusiasm and initiative of each unit. In the past five years, the county has vigorously carried out urban and rural greening, and completed 452.1 thousand mu of artificial afforestation, and voluntary planting up to 2.537 million trees. The forest coverage rate reached 61.2% and the urban green coverage rate reached 38.13%.
At present, the green rate is 33.28%, the green coverage rate is 38.13% and per capita park green area is 12.82 square meters. The main greening indicators of Guiyang urban construction zone all exceeded the standards of the National Garden County.