Jane Chen / Shanghai Daily news

Local residents will have a touch of Netherlands next month, as a complete duplicate of the famed Keukenhof Park will open in late March in the city's southeast, today's Laodong Daily reported.
The as-yet unnamed park, covering an area of 28 hectares, the same size as its twin in Holland, is part of the Shanghai Flower Port, the city's largest flower industry base in Nanhui District.
Keukenhof Park, meaning "kitchen garden" in Dutch, is renowned for its tulip exhibitions. Every spring the park is opened between March 23 and May 21 to host a tulip exhibition with millions of flowers, an event celebrated as a holiday by the Dutch.
The Shanghai park will also hold a similar tulip exhibition, displaying 3 million tulips of more than 300 varieties, decorated with a large number of windmills, according to officials.
The park is a 70 million yuan (US$8.4 million) project jointly invested by the Sino-Dutch Horticultural Training and Demonstration Center, Shanghai Agricultural, Industrial and Commercial Group and Donghai Farm.