Opened on July 16, the second garden expo in Qinhuangdao, a city in north China’s Hebei Province will run through October 18. With a total investment of 1.8 billion yuan, the expo park represents the largest-ever greening project in Qinhuangdao. /VCG Photo

The theme of the garden expo is "green dream of port city." /VCG Photo

The expo features 40 distinctive gardens throughout its expo park at the foot of Qiyun Mountain. /VCG Photo

The garden in the north of the expo is divided into three parts: mountain and plateau; forest and grassland; and rivers, lakes and wetland, representing the unique landscapes of Qinhuangdao. / VCG Photo

The garden in the south of the expo is separated into four parts: gardens featuring scenery of the regions south of the Yangtze River, Fujian and Taiwan, Europe and Southeast Asia; single-variety gardens; replicas of botanical gardens in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region; and themed gardens./ VCG Photo