Plant fossil park to open in Henan

A geological park dedicated to plant fossils - the first of its kind in China - is set to open in Yuzhou, Henan province.

It took more than three years to build and covers an area of 28.93 square kilometers.

Zhang Bingchen, deputy chief engineer of the Henan Institute of Geological Survey, said visitors to the park will be shown how plant fossils are formed and discover what the Earth used to look like during the Permian Period, more than 250 million years ago.