Applicant	Affiliation	Country
Nigar Quluzade	Central Botanical Garden of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences	Azerbaijan
Sanjit Chandra Barman	Plant Conservation and Research Foundation	Bangladesh
Chérilèse Macé	National Botanical Garden of Haiti	Haiti
Leon Francois	National Botanical Garden of Haiti	Haiti
Sandeep Chauhan	Botanic Garden of Indian Republic	India
Vikram Baraiya	Harji-Van Botanic Garden And Park	India
Sri Wahyuni	Bogor Botanic Gardens	Indonesia
Tutut Retno Lestari	Cibodas Botanical Garden	Indonesia
Gulaiym Donbaeva	the Scientific Research Institute Botanical Garden named after E.Z. Gareev,National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic	Kyrgyzstan
Veo Dalavong	Pha Tad Ke Botanic garden	Laos
Khairul Muhammad Khairul Anwar B. Ismail	Kepong Botanic Garden,Forest Research Institute Malaysia	Malaysia
Siti Fariezza	Kepong Botanic Garden,Forest Research Institute Malaysia	Malaysia
Hsu Win Win Wint	National Kandawgyi Gardens	Myanmar
Ajmal Iqbal	Government Afzal Khan Lala Post Graduate College Matta Swat	Pakistan
Muhammad Rashid	Qarshi Garden	Pakistan
Hsieh-Fang Chang	Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability / Palestine Museum of Natural History at Bethlehem University	Palestine
Chaminda Ratnayake	Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya	Sri Lanka
Sagara Piyasena	Department of National Botanic Gardens	Sri Lanka
Jantrararuk Tovaranonte	School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University	Thailand
Thiamhathai Choopan	Nakhon Ratchasima Rajabhat University	Thailand
Cao Thi Viet Nga	Vietnam National University of Forestry	Vietnam
Sandeep Chauhan	Botanic Garden of Indian Republic	India

29 teachers invited are garden directors or senior staff, professors, horticultural company owners and well-known designers from China and abroad. Theory classes include "The Misson and The Development of Botanic Gardens","Plant Exhibitions & Shows: Concept and Implementation", "Flower Product Development & Flower Border Design","Education in Botanical Garden: Is it that important ?","Genetic Issues in Plant Conservation","Herbarium Management & Seed Bank", and newly added lectures, such as "Attractive and efficient technologies using plants for the environment in Botanical Gardens","Marketing for BG" and "China's enviroment education trend and botancial garden's role".

There were guided tours by Chenshan BG's senior staff, to waterlily garden, the conservatory, production greenhouses, the nursery and plant trail fields, children's garden and tropical plant museum, flower borders, the research center, the compost site and hands-on training of living collection management, green facades techniques, rose grafting techniques, plant collection and specimen making.

Trainees were also welcomed when they visited other gardens and institutions——Shanghai Natural History Museum, Zuibai park and Fangta park, Shanghai Botanical Garden, Campus BG of Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University, Hangzhou Botanical Garden and Dreamland nature center.

Aside from trainee's presentations of their own gardens and final group reports, the International Ethnobotany Show became one of the highlights. Trainees coming from different countries dressing in traditional costumes, displaying the ways they use plants, performing music and dance, share the ethnobotanical knowledge and tradiditonal culture with local visitors in Chenshan.

This international training program was began at Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden in 2016, with 61 trainees from 21 countries and 37 institutions in the past 4 years. It has increased the cooperation between Chenshan and the botanical gardens or academic institutions of developing countries. Chenshan has signed MOUs with National Botanical Garden of Haiti, Vietnam National University of Forestry, University of Sindh(Pakistan), Biodiversity Conservation Foundation (Pakistan), Quaid-i-Azam University (Pakistan) and Plant Conservation and Research Foundation(Bangladesh) respectively. Progress has been made in the field of Juglandaceae conservation, with the joint research of Chenshan, Central Botanical Garden of Azerbaijan, Tarbiat Modares University (Iran) and Vietnam National University of Forestry.