'Pink cloud' to brighten city's core

A new splash of natural color is coming to the downtown to complement the central greenbelt next to Financial Street, which is already planted with acer saccharinums, autumn purple ashes, cherry-apples and other imported trees.

Wang Jun, deputy director of the bureau of landscape and forestry with Xicheng district, told Beijing Mirror Evening News on Monday that a 300-meter avenue of cherry-apple trees will be planted in the central greenbelt, with both sides having 44 trees imported from the USA.

Wang said the trees will look like pink clouds when they are in blossom.