[Explanation] On the eve of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress in 2022, Zhu Hong, a representative of the National People's Congress and a cultural scholar, suggested in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency that the Grand Canal of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Guangdong should be dug as soon as possible to make the economic and social ecology of the southeastern half of China, including Jiangxi, more friendly Waterborne, flexible, germinal and livable.

　　In the more than ten years of working in Jiangxi, Zhu Hong has been in charge of Jiangxi Culture and Tourism for many years, and is the layout and promoter of Jiangxi tourism development. He was elected as the first president of the Jiangxi Provincial Culture and Tourism Research and Promotion Association, which was just established a few days ago.

　　Combined with historical data, Zhu Hong first pointed out that the construction of the Gan-Guangdong Canal has a good historical and cultural background.

　　[Concurrent] Zhu Hong, a cultural scholar on behalf of the National People's Congress

　　It was first in the history of our country, a head of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangxi native Xie Jin proposed such a concept, and in Sun Yat-sen's "Strategy for National Founding", he again put forward the concept of building the Gan-Guangdong Canal.

　　At the National People's Congress last year, Zhu Hong mentioned in an interview that the history of Jiangxi's rise and fall can be found from the Ganjiang River. Therefore, we must be grateful to the Ganjiang River, protect the Ganjiang River, and develop and utilize the Ganjiang River.

He believes that the construction of the Zhejiang-Jiangxi-Guangdong Canal is of great significance for the further expansion, quality and upgrade of Jiangxi's transportation.

　　[Concurrent] Zhu Hong, a cultural scholar on behalf of the National People's Congress

　　First of all, the average price of water transportation is only more than two cents per ton-kilometer. For car transportation, it is about six or seven cents per ton-kilometer, and train transportation is about two cents. From this background condition, it should be said that it is the best way of logistics transportation. We Jiangxi The current economic development is constrained by the high price of logistics and transportation, and (the canal) can fundamentally solve this problem.

　　Today, the Zhejiang-Jiangxi-Guangdong Canal has entered the general planning of the national shipping channel. After completion, it will help to form a new pattern of inland water transportation and efficiently connect the three national strategic areas of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

　　[Concurrent] Zhu Hong, a cultural scholar on behalf of the National People's Congress

　　The opening of the canal of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Guangdong can solve the complete communication of the four most important waterways in China, including the connection between the Ganjiang River and the Pearl River, and the further connection with the Yangtze River, and the connection with Zhejiang through the Qiantang River and the Fuchun River, and then the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, connecting the four major waterways. The waterways are connected together, and the economic belts on both sides can be developed in an all-round way, including the exchange of personnel, the exchange of properties, and especially the freight will play a great role.

　　In Zhu Hong's view, this "Century Project" with a total length of about 1,988 kilometers is undoubtedly a great thing. The people of Jiangxi have longed for the revitalization of the millennium-old golden waterway of Jiangxi and Po.

　　[Concurrent] Zhu Hong, a cultural scholar on behalf of the National People's Congress

　　If we have more waterways, we can build more wharfs to transport all kinds of products from Jiangxi. (It is suggested) to speed up the pace of implementation, so that the people of Jiangxi can benefit from the Ganjiang River as soon as possible, and also make Our Ganjiang River is full of vigor and vitality in the new era, and through cooperation and communication with other water systems, it will play a greater role.

　　Reported by Jiang Tao, Liu Junwu, Deng Wenzhuo, Nanchang, Jiangxi

Responsible editor: [Cheng Chunyu]