A joint expedition team of China and Myanmar has finished their mission recently and collected more than 6,000 specimens of plants and animals, the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said Friday.

A China-Myanmar joint field expedition, made up with researchers from the Southeast Asia Biodiversity Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS-SEABRI) and the Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation of Myanmar, is doing researches on the biodiversity of the Tamanthi Wildlife Sanctuary in northern Myanmar. The expedition, the eighth of its kind since 2014, began on May 14 and will last til June 15.

Founded in 1959, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden is one of the most diverse botanical gardens for outdoor plants in the world. Visitors get to see over 13,000 species of tropical plants in the garden's 35 living collections. CGTN reporter Meng Qingsheng takes a closer look at some of the most valuable species inside.

The Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden is a plant research station of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, located in Southwest China's Yunnan province. Now 60 years old, the garden fosters over 13-thousand species of plants in its more than 30 living collections. Let's now take a look at one of the most diverse botanical gardens for outdoor plants in the world.