Garden afforestation is composed of the visual arts, sight-seeing, relaxation and popular science.

The afforestation of the urban area is developing coordinately in the way of afforesting, beautifying and coloring the city.

A garden afforestation system has been shaped with the parks, the afforestation of the main roads in the urban area, the riversides and the afforestation belt around the city as the main part, and the afforestation of the sub-main roads and of the offices, schools, enterprises and the residential complex as the supplement.

The standard of afforestation, flowers in three seasons and green around the year, has been reached. The garden afforestation area of Guiyang totals to 3442 hectares, while the wooded area around the city is 8,666 hectares.

The afforestation has been finished in 33.3 percent of the city area. The area of public greenland per person totals to 12.4 square meters. Guiyang has been named National Advanced Garden Afforestation City by the State Construction Department.