Urban waterways beautify with green new look

A staff member from Yangzhou, Jiangsu province is busy planting fishscale bamboo on the floating beds of the Yinchao River, Yangzhou's downtown area, on March 20. The local gardening and greening department started a city waterway beautifying project in early spring by planting such aquatic plants as watermifoil, iris and fishscale bamboo on urban waterways. [Photo by Pu Liangping/Xinhua]

A staff member plants fishscale bamboo on the floating bed of the Yinchao River, Yangzhou, on March 20. [Photo by Pu Liangping/Xinhua]

A staff member from Yangzhou uses a boat to plant watermifoil on the floating beds of Yinchao River on March 20. [Photo by Pu Liangping/Xinhua]