China News Service, Beijing, June 24th (Chen Hang Wang Yihan) On the morning of the 24th, the Beijing section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Hebei section jointly held the Beijing-Hebei cruise ship navigation ceremony. The Tongzhou and Xianghe ships carrying citizens, builders, and media representatives slowly faced each other. Passing through the lock, marking the 62-kilometer Beijing-Hebei section of the Grand Canal to achieve interconnection and navigation.
The interconnection of Beijing-Hebei cruise ships on the Grand Canal marks the first time that inter-provincial waterways and inter-provincial water tourism transportation have appeared in Beijing.
It is understood that after the epidemic prevention and control conditions allow, citizens' wishes to take a cruise to Hebei will be realized.
For thousands of years, the flowing waters of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal have converged in all directions, condensing the profound cultural heritage of the canal.
The interconnection of the Beijing-Hebei cruise ship on the Grand Canal has promoted the development and utilization of cultural, leisure and tourism resources along the rivers of Beijing and Hebei. Painting the beautiful Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei with clear waters and lush mountains provides important support.
On the morning of the 24th, the Beijing and Hebei sections of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal jointly held a navigation ceremony for the Beijing-Hebei cruise ship.
Photo courtesy of Beijing Water Affairs Bureau
In order to speed up the navigation of cruise ships, the Beijing Municipal Water Affairs Bureau, the Municipal Transportation Commission, the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, and the Tongzhou District Government have jointly formulated a work plan for the navigation of cruise ships along the Grand Canal. On June 26, 2021, the Beijing section of the Grand Canal and the Xianghe section of Hebei will be opened to navigation in the province and city simultaneously.
With the construction of ship locks and wharves along the line, the establishment of 5A scenic spots, the launch of inter-provincial water transportation, and the improvement of supporting public service facilities, the goal of interconnecting and interoperating cruise ships in the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has also been completed as scheduled.
The comprehensive management of the North Canal (Tongzhou section), which was implemented by the Beijing Water Affairs Bureau, was fully completed, and key construction projects such as Gantang, Yulinzhuang, and Yangwa locks were successively completed.
The 28.7-kilometer downstream of the Beijing section of the Grand Canal has been further upgraded in terms of "face value", and the canal landscape of "one axis, two belts, two mountains, and thirteen nodes" has gradually formed. Another Internet celebrity "check-in point" on the bank.
Before the opening ceremony, the Yangwa Ship Lock successfully completed the water-carrying test and the ship passing test, and passed the system debugging and operation in an all-round way.
On the morning of the 24th, the Beijing and Hebei sections of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal jointly held a navigation ceremony for the Beijing-Hebei cruise ship.
Photo courtesy of Beijing Water Affairs Bureau
Xue Wenzheng, director of the Beijing Water Construction Management Affairs Center, said that there are large water level differences in many parts of the Beijing-Hebei section of the Grand Canal, and cruise ships cannot pass directly.
As an important water conservancy facility at the junction of Beijing and Hebei, the completion of Yangwa Ship Lock has successfully opened up the last breakpoint of waterway transportation in the Beijing-Hebei section of the Grand Canal, and has become a model for Beijing-Hebei collaborative management of the Grand Canal. The millennium context of the canal between Beijing and Hebei provides important foundational support.
The smooth progress of the navigation is also inseparable from the continuous improvement of the water ecological environment of the Grand Canal.
In recent years, the Beijing-Hebei Water Affairs System has carried out traceability management, systematic management and comprehensive management of water systems in the basin, compacting responsibilities, and fully implementing the requirements of "solving ecological problems with ecological methods".
According to Dou Yanbing, deputy director of the Beijing North Canal Management Office, by planting aquatic plants in the river channel, carrying out proliferation and release, building an "underwater forest", setting up water environment scouts, promoting the integrity of the river water ecosystem, and improving water quality, While improving the water ecological environment, it also provides more habitats for aquatic animals and plants to survive and reproduce.
The opening of the Grand Canal has brought new business forms and new requirements to the water transportation industry in Beijing and Hebei.
Yuan Yongjun, deputy director of the Waterway Transportation Management Office of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Communications, introduced that the interconnection of Beijing-Hebei cruise ships on the Grand Canal marks the first time that inter-provincial waterways and inter-provincial water tourism transportation have appeared in Beijing.
Beijing Municipal Commission of Communications focuses on creating green shipping and the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, strictly controls navigation standards, and vigorously promotes the use and renewal of new energy ships in the selection of cruise ships. The existing ships are clean energy ships; continue to strengthen Beijing-Hebei Communication and docking with the transportation industry management departments, in-depth communication and cooperation in the aspects of enterprise operation qualification, real-name system management for tourists, terminal security inspection, channel planning and management, information construction, navigation dispatch, water law enforcement and search and rescue of jointly managed river sections, and standardization of ship types, etc., to establish work mechanism to maximize the comprehensive benefits of North Canal tourism and shipping.
Tongzhou District, Beijing insists on taking the Grand Canal Cultural Belt as an important carrier to meet the overflowing tourism demand of global theme parks, taking the opportunity of creating a national 5A-level tourist attraction and promoting the interconnection of the Grand Canal Beijing-Hebei cruise ship, starting from "Three Temples and One Pagoda" , with the canal culture as the core, organically connect the canal business district, the urban green heart park and the three major buildings, build the grand canal ecological and cultural landscape corridor, create a Chinese cultural world brand comparable to Universal Studios, and form a dislocation and complementation of Chinese and foreign tourism brands The interconnected development pattern of each other will better promote the transformation and upgrading of Tongzhou's tourism industry.
At the same time, we will enhance the landscape along the route, build an ecological town, explore characteristic routes, integrate the service packages that benefit the people, comprehensively promote the development and inheritance of the cultural tourism industry of the Grand Canal, extend the cultural tourism experience, and make the canal moving, bright and beautiful.
In the future, Beijing and Hebei will integrate high-quality resources such as Beijing (Tongzhou) Grand Canal Cultural Tourism Scenic Spot and Hebei Xianghe Chaobai River Grand Canal National Wetland Park. The natural landscape, folk customs, cultural heritage and other historical and cultural tourism resources along the coast adopt the method of "simultaneous development of points and lines, combination of long and short, and integration of water and shore" to jointly develop water scenery, ship business, shore walks, and intangible cultural heritage display. , picking along the way, camping for rest, riding along the river and other "canal cruise +" theme tour routes, to build the Grand Canal (Beijing-Hebei section) tourism belt with rich historical and cultural heritage and blue and green landscapes.
In April of this year, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was opened to water for the first time in a century, and the ancient canal ushered in a century of recovery.
Today, the interconnection of Beijing-Hebei cruise ships on the Grand Canal marks another important step in the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.
On the basis of two places in one boat, in the long run, the interconnection of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei cruise ships will also be realized.
After thousands of years, the canal water full of historical context will leave a flowing ecological blue on the scroll of the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.
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