Ancient Ginkgo National Forest Park

　　 Jiangsu Taixing Provincial Ancient Ginkgo National Forest Park is situated in Xuanbao Town, honored as the “No. 1 Ginkgo Town in the World.” Spanning an area of 9,800 mu, the park features scattered villages, dense forests of ginkgo trees, and vast orchards. Within the core area alone, there are over 13,800 cultivated ginkgo trees, including 9,800 fruit-bearing ones. The park is home to three thousand-year-old ginkgo trees, 1,600 trees over 200 years old, and more than 3,800 trees over 100 years old, making its ginkgo resources exceptionally rich. A stable plant community has formed here. The ancient ginkgo trees, with their lush canopies and short trunks, create the distinctive silhouette of Taixing’s ginkgos. These grand trees are either clustered around villages or scattered along ditches and roadsides. It is the largest and densest concentration of ancient ginkgo trees in China. Experts have called it “unique in the world and unparalleled in China,” praising it as “a miracle of nature and a paradise for leisure.”