The theme "2012 Fun filled graduation season at Shanghai Happy Valley --Life is a roller coaster, happy graduation!"
With an invitation from Ma Jinshuang, the deputy director of the Shanghai Chenshan Plant Science Research Center, Professor Xiang Qiuyun from North Carolina State University in the US went on an academic exchange to the Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden on June 13.
Graduates from middle and high school can enjoy half-priced tickets with their graduation examination admission cards.
Chenshan Botanical Garden is going to host a series of special events celebrating the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival on June 23.
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.