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Green Ambassador Scheme

Under the LCSD’s Green Ambassador Scheme, DC members are invited to serve as Green Ambassadors who help enhance green consciousness and encourage more community involvement in greening and tree care. By March 2018, some 430 prominent citizens had joined the scheme.

Hong Kong Flower Show 2018

The Hong Kong Flower Show was held at Victoria Park from March 16 to 25, 2018. As the theme ‘Joy in Bloom’ suggests, the show aimed at delivering a sense of joy to visitors, especially through the beauty of the show’s theme flower – the Dahlia. Supported by more than 260 organisations, the show attracted a record-breaking attendance of over 720 000.

Some 400 000 flowering plants were on display at the show, including 40 000 pots of dahlias and many other exotic flowers and plants from all over the world. The show also featured floral art displays created by horticultural groups. Participants included local, Mainland and overseas horticultural organisations, private firms and government departments.

As usual, the event included a rich diversity of educational and recreational fringe activities, including horticultural seminars, floral art demonstrations, cultural performances, drawing and photo competitions, green stalls and workshops, guided tours and family fun games. There were also commercial stalls selling flowers and other horticultural products, others selling photographic equipment, and fast food stalls.

To reinforce green measures and enhance the environmental performance of the Hong Kong Flower Show, the LCSD collaborated with the Environmental Protection Department to hold the inaugural Green Recycling Day upon the conclusion of the show. More than 300 volunteers were recruited to assist in collecting and separating reusable and recyclable materials at the showground for waste reduction. To encourage greening in the community, some 25 000 potted plants suitable for replanting were distributed to 100 participating organisations and for the first time around 5 000 pots of dahlias were distributed to members of the public.

Green Hong Kong Campaign

Around 170 green promotional and outreach activities were held during the year, with over 48 000 people taking part.

Over 7 700 Green Volunteers from the 18 districts were recruited under the Green Volunteer Scheme to participate in voluntary services involving greening activities, and to serve as stewards at various green promotional activities. In 2017-18, around 500 greening activities were attended by the Green Volunteers.

Under the Community Garden Programme, 63 gardening courses were organised in which more than 13 000 people took part. The programme covers all 18 districts, which have now set up 24 community gardens. The courses encourage community-level greening activities and the adoption of green practices, and more generally raise public awareness of environmental protection issues.

In conjunction with the DCs and local community groups, the LCSD organised 21 Community Planting Days throughout the year. Over 6 000 members of the public took part, planting 44 trees and around 28 700 shrubs.

The Greening School Subsidy Scheme, part of the school greening programme, provided subsidies of $4.95 million to 881 schools and kindergartens in the year. The subsidies were used to help make school campuses greener and to provide green educational activities for students, with the assistance of part-time instructors. The various school greening projects were assessed and the winning schools received a Greening School Project Award. In addition, 373 120 students were given pots of seedlings under the ‘One Person, One Flower’ Scheme, which encourages young people to grow their own plants.