Bishui Tang Tang Run both sides -the Grand Canal reproduces new vitality

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, June 24th.

Xinhua News Agency reporter

The Grand Canal, communicating north and south, penetrating ancient and modern, the earliest, largest, and longest mileage in the world. In the era of water transport, the Grand Canal was moisturized by the people for its irreplaceable effect.

Now, under the guidance of the new development concept, the Grand Canal is protected, inherited, and used to open a new chapter. On April 28th, the Beijing -Hangzhou Grand Canal has been in the entire line for the first time in the past century; on June 24, the Grand Canal Beijing -Hebei section tour channel realizes interconnection ... The overall planning of the protection and repair of famous towns, the integration of cultural tourism, and the improvement of the canal shipping rivers and the transformation of the canal, so that the ancient Lord Canal can be rejuvenated.

Cultural heritage inheritance of thousands of years of memory

The ancient Grand Canal meandered nearly 3,200 kilometers, across 8 provinces and cities in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, and communicated with the five major water systems of the Haihe, Yellow River, Huaihe River, Yangtze River, and Qiantang River.

For thousands of years, a wealth of cultural relics have accumulated along the canal. In June 2014, the Grand Canal was included in the World Heritage List.

In July 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission took the lead in the "Fourteenth Five -Year Plan Implementation Plan" compiled by relevant departments.

"After the new rain of Pu Fan, a tower recognizes the state." Wang Weizhen's verse of the Qing Dynasty depicts the situation on the north of the canal. At that time, after seeing the top of the tower on the tower on the boat on the venue on the boat on dozens of miles of people, it was known that Tongzhou arrived and the capital was near.

According to Zhang Yueyue, the head of the Cultural Relics Section of the Tongzhou District Culture and Tourism Bureau of Beijing, in June 2020, the "Three Temples and One Tower" scenic spot where the lighthouse was located was transformed and promoted. The environment and supporting facilities around the scenic area have been greatly improved.

Historically, the ancient canal has also flooded. Xiejiaba, located in Lianzhen, Dongguang County, Hebei Province, has repeatedly decided. During the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, Lianzhen Xie's Township donated money to organize manpower to boil the slurry with glutinous rice, add gray soil and soil to build a embankment, hence the name Xiejiaba. In order to reproduce the historical style of Xiejiaba, the local main body was repaired and reinforced. To this end, more than a hundred bags of glutinous rice and thousands of wooden wedges were used.

The protection is to better inherit and use. Today, many cities along the Grand Canal have established museums or exhibition halls, publishing books, and organizing activities to allow the Canal Cultural Heritage to "tell" history.

Entering the exhibition hall of the "Grand Canal -Grand Canal Cultural Exhibition" exhibition hall of the Cangzhou Museum in Hebei. The road to application ... Here, the Grand Canal is winding and meandering, and the history and cultural notes are merged.

"The theme of this exhibition hall is' see the history of the canal and keep the memory of the city." Wang Wei, deputy curator of the Cangzhou Museum, said that through the use of artistic design concepts, the interactive experience is combined with the physical display. "Talk about the history and culture of the Grand Canal.

Treatment of pollution and planting green repair ecology

The Grand Canal in history has nourished the land on both sides of the strait and raised many people. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the canal of the ancient Cangzhou was built, and the ships shuttled, and the merchants exchanged, regardless of day and night. During the Jiajing and Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Putou "Tong Liang Jingjin's important, more than 10,000 people in the Jiahe River, military and civilians, and businessmen, and became famous towns along the river.

Today, the two sides of the canal show a new picture of the harmonious coexistence of the river.

"When I was a kid, I took my father's cargo ship to Hangzhou and went to Gongyu Bridge. At that time, it was a shantytown. The gravel road was dark and the smell was very heavy. There were many pipes on the river bank that drained the sewage into the canal. Song Feifei, a waiter in Hangzhou Water Bus.

In 2011, she came to the Hangzhou Canal Comprehensive Protection and Development and Construction Group. The shantytown that I saw in a teenager has now been transformed into the historical and cultural district of Hangzhou's well -known Qiaoxi Zhi Street. The pink walls are daiming, and the green trees are lined.

In recent years, through measures such as widening dredging, ecological reconstruction, and water quality monitoring, Beijing Tongzhou District has gradually changed from a drainage river to ecological river, and a large amount of water birds have inhabited here.

"Since 2021, the monitoring point of wild birds in Tongzhou District monitors a total of nearly 500,000 migrant birds. Nearly 200 kinds of birds are recorded in the North Canal, and more than 200,000 migratory birds have inhabit or transit here. Among them, there are still. Big Swan, Oriental Baiyan, Green Tau Duck Duck, Zhendan Raven, Black Board, etc. "Rare Passenger '." Li Yang, deputy director of the Garden Greening Bureau of Tongzhou District.

With the improvement of the ecological environment of the Grand Canal, the lives of people on both sides of the strait have also changed gratifying.

The front door is shopping, the back door washing vegetables and getting off the boat, leaning on the window to dry clothes, and to drink tea on the shore ... The lanterns on the lantern at the beginning, the scenery on the water village on Nanchang Street, Wuxi, Jiangsu. Take the boat to Qingming Bridge, all the way, the scenery and the river are bright, and it has become a favorite leisure destination for young people.

In the city of Cangzhou, Hebei, in the early morning, the Green Canal Park ushered in the citizens of "punch card". Some take a leisurely walk, some stop to take pictures, and from time to time, the walking team shouted the cheerful slogan and passed by. Along the river embankment all the way south, Qingfeng Tower, Nanchuan Tower, Langyin Tower, Baishi Garden, canal park ... Water winding, roads, and scenery, people enjoy it.

One river and blue water inspire economic vitality

For thousands of years, the canal has nourished cities and people on both sides of the strait.

Today, the Grand Canal is injecting new vitality into the economic development of the two sides of the strait. In recent years, the level of shipping in the Grand Canal has been greatly improved. On June 24th, with the cruise ships from Tongzhou and Hebei in Beijing, along the North Canal channel across the gate of the portal, the Grand Canal Beijing -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -Hebei -section tour channel was interconnected. Yuan Yongjun, deputy director of the Water Transport Management Office of the Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission, said that this marks the first inter -provincial channel in Beijing, and for the first time, inter -provincial water tourism transportation has appeared.

Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province, relied on the Geran River to vigorously develop the shipping industry. In 2021, the inland river port had accumulated a total of 126 million tons of cargo throughput and 379,400 tanks of container throughput.

"Water transportation energy is large, the land is small, the energy consumption is small, and the pollution is light. It is a green transportation method." He Jianchun, former deputy director of the Jiaxing Port and Airlines Bureau, said.

At the same time, the cultural tourism of the canal is in the ascendant.

Shortly after the Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum opened last year, 10,000 appointment places per day were often opened for a few minutes, becoming the new popular landmark of Yangzhou in the ancient city.

On April 11, Jiangsu Province issued the "Implementation Plan for the Construction of the World -Class Canal Cultural Heritage Tourism Corridor". It is estimated that by 2025, Jiangsu will build a world -class tourist attraction and resort that shows the Grand Canal culture along the Canal culture. District, more than 6 national night culture and tourism consumption agglomeration zones.

With the canal cultural tourism industry as the leader, the economic structure of the canal is quietly transformed.

"Warm wind, light incense, grain painting town girls are busy ..." Shoudong Village, Shoudong Village, Grain Painting Town, Pantao County, Hebei Province, located on the banks of the canal. More than 120 people in the village are engaged in grain painting Production. Zhang Furen, secretary of the party branch of Shoudong Village, said that the radiation of Shoudong Village drove more than 10 surrounding villages to increase their income, and the average annual income of villagers in the industry was nearly 25,000 yuan.

Taking the small town of grain as the leader, Miyao County has built a number of "small and special", "rich and beautiful", "new and live" characteristic towns. With the opportunity of the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, they integrate the Grand Canal Culture and others into In rural tourism, the industrial development chain has been continuously stretched to promote industrial integration and development.

In Hangzhou, with the construction of the canal culture belt, some industrial relics have become museums and cultural and creative parks. The former Hangzhou Silk Printing Dyeding Factory transformed into a creative industrial park through the factory transformation, and entered 110 cultural and creative enterprises.

Costume designer Zheng Bihong opened a studio in the industrial park and made a studio for cheongsam and dresses. She said: "The silk and canal are inseparable.

The blue water that runs through the north and south is helping the people on both sides of the strait "the boat of getting rich" forging ahead and running towards a happy life. (Reporter Li Fengshuang, Fan Shihui, Wang Min, Jiang Fang, Feng Yuan, Zhang Xiao)

[Editor in charge: Xu Haizhi]

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