China National Botanical Garden, Botanical garden in Haidian District, Beijing, China

The China National Botanical Garden is a sprawling botanical garden in Haidian, Beijing, where diverse plant collections from around the world grow across rolling terrain. The garden is organized into thematic zones where visitors encounter tropical plants, fruit orchards, and tree collections displayed in naturalistic settings.

The garden was officially established as a national institution in 2022, building on decades of botanical research that took place on the site. This consolidation brought together previously separate plant collections under one unified botanical facility.

The North Garden holds the Temple of the Reclining Buddha (Shifang Pujue Temple), the Cao Xueqin Memorial Hall, the tomb of reformer Liang Qichao and a monument to Hu Xiansu's poem "Song of the Dawn Redwood". Puyi, the last Qing emperor, worked here in the early 1960s as a plant caretaker and ticket seller.

The garden has two sections on opposite sides of the road: the South Garden, founded in 1955, and the North Garden at the foot of Xiangshan, approved in 1956. The North Garden holds the ornamental collections, the tropical conservatory and the historic sites; the South Garden concentrates on wild-plant research. Plan which section you want before arriving.

The last Qing emperor, Puyi, worked here in the early 1960s, assigned for over a year as a plant caretaker and ticket seller at the Institute of Botany garden, the South Garden. The North Garden holds a metasequoia, a species first described from fossils and thought extinct until living trees were found in Hubei and Sichuan in the 1940s.