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On June 10, a screaming contest was hosted by Shanghai Happy Valley, attracting a number of excited young people.Students who had just finished their National College Entrance Examination showed up, amongst others. All the female participators in the contest were far from shy to show-off their screaming skills.
Chenshan Botanical Garden hosted the fourth "flower arrangements charity event" during this spring, and the staff from the garden donated the funds raised to an impoverished student on June 8, 2012.
A documentary featuring the Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden was shown on the New York WMBC channel, according to the International Channel Shanghai (ICS) on April 14.
The precious national protected plants, Helminthostachys zeylanica with a flower look-alike, spadix, appeared in the Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden in May 2012.
The anime live action movie I Love Big Big Wolf was shot at the Shanghai Happy Valley in early June.
On June 5, the very first US student, Katherine from Connecticut College, started her internship at the Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden.
By Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden was listed in the 2nd Top Ten Best Scenes in the Shanghai New Impression contest.
William (Ned) Friedman, the director of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and professor of organismic and evolutionary biology was invited to the Chenshan Botanical Garden. This was his first visit to Shanghai since he took the post as the director of the Arnold Arboretum in 2011.
