Capital will bloom with 3-D, lasers for holiday

All flower beds for this year's National Day celebrations on Tian'anmen Square and along Chang'an Avenue will be made using 3-D printing, the Beijing Bureau of Landscape and Forestry has said.

Last year, only the gigantic flower basket on Tian'anmen Square was made with the 3-D process.

Laser projection will also be used for the first time at night on the square, and 167,000 pots of a new type of chrysanthemum, cultivated in Beijing, will be presented for the first time, the bureau said on Thursday.