Shenyang Botanical Garden, located in Dongling District, Shenyang City, also known as Shenyang Expo Park and Shenyang World Horticultural Expo Park, is a multi-functional comprehensive tourist attraction integrating green ecological viewing, boutique garden art, humanistic landscape architecture, scientific research and popular science education, entertainment and leisure activities. Built in February 1959, it was officially opened to the public in 1993. It covers an area of 211 hectares. With the lily tower, phoenix square and rose garden as the iconic theme buildings, it gathers the gardens and architecture boutiques of five continents and key domestic cities in the world. Shenyang Botanical Garden is the site of the 2006 Shenyang World Horticultural Expo in China. It is known as the "Expo Park in the Forest" and has been rated as the "50 Great Views of Liaoning Province", "15 Tourism Landscapes of Shenyang" and "10 Science and Education Bases of Shenyang". In 2004, it was awarded the title of the first batch of 5A-level tourist attractions in the country.