China News Agency, Beijing, November 8th (Reporter Du Yan) The Beijing Sub-center Green Forest Park, which has been open for more than a month on the banks of the Universiade, attracts people from Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei to check in; taking a boat trip on the Grand Canal has become one of the citizens’ leisure ways One...Beijing continues to increase the protection and utilization of historical and cultural sites along the Beijing section of the Grand Canal. The Millennium Canal is rejuvenated and is awakening the new vitality of cultural tourism in the ancient capital.
The Grand Canal stretches for more than 3200 kilometers and runs for more than 2500 years. It integrates the regional cultures of Beijing, Tianjin, Yanzhao, Qilu, Central Plains, Huaiyang, Wuyue, etc. It is an area with a high concentration of Chinese culture and tourism resources.
Among them, the Beijing section of the Grand Canal spans 7 districts in the capital, and the cultural relics along the line are of high grade, large age span, densely distributed, and rich in types.
Beijing, with a history of more than 3000 years of building a city and a history of more than 860 years of building a capital, pointed out in the "Beijing City’s Medium and Long-term Plan for Promoting the Construction of National Cultural Centers (2019-2035)" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") announced in April this year. The canal, the Great Wall, and the Yongding River in the West Mountain carry the memory of urban development and are the essence of Beijing's cultural context and even Chinese civilization.
Ancient capital culture is the "soul of the city" and has always been favored by tourists at home and abroad.
According to the "Beijing Cultural Tourism Consumption Big Data Report 2019-Research on the Development of Beijing Cultural Tourism from a Consumption Perspective", among Beijing's tourism product consumption, historical sites account for the highest proportion, reaching 50.3%.
Culture is the soul of tourism development, and tourism is one of the realization forms of cultural development.
The "Planning" proposes that Beijing should systematically carry out the protection of the cultural heritage of the Grand Canal, create a blue and green interwoven ecological cultural landscape, and create a corridor of cultural tourism charm.
In recent years, various districts in Beijing have actively promoted the protection of cultural relics along the Beijing section of the Grand Canal, and promoted the integration and innovation of culture and tourism.
Baifu Spring, located in Changping District, is the top source of the Grand Canal and played a vital role in the water supply and water transportation of Yuan Dadu.
Now, the maintenance works of the walls of the Longwang Temple and the stele pavilion of the Jiulongchi at Baifuquan Site have been completed.
Since the beginning of this year, Changping District has promoted the preparation of the Grand Canal’s Baifuquan Site Cultural Relics Protection Plan in an orderly and effective manner, and accelerated the preparation of the implementation plan for the Grand Canal Source Site Park Project.
In Haidian District, not far to the west of Guangyuan Gate, known as the "First Gate of the Canal", is the royal temple Wanshou Temple.
At present, Wanshou Temple and its surrounding areas are fully retired. In the future, it will be contiguous with Yanqing Temple and Wuta Temple to create a new "net celebrity check-in point" along the canal.
Shichahai was an important water area in the inner city in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties and became an important basis for Beijing to build a city.
The Shichahai Cultural Exhibition Center is located in Guangfuguan in Xicheng District, attracting modern young people to trace the "Floating Beijing City" in the digital sand table and graphic exhibits.
In Chaoyang District, 22 landscape nodes will be built along the Xiaotaihou River, 800,000 square meters of Liangma River’s international-style waterfront is blended with green water, the restoration of the historical landscape of the Shenmu Factory on the Tonghui River has taken shape, and the Wenyu River Corridor will show the water transportation culture and Ancient Post Road Culture...The four main rivers along the Chaoyang section of the Grand Canal connect cultural and ecological landscapes to show visitors the cultural treasures contained in the canal.
In Tongzhou District, which "takes the meaning of water transport and economic development", the Green Heart Forest Park on the banks of the Universiade has 36 scenic spots such as the old canal road and the Millennium Huilin. After opening for more than a month, it has become the "regional internet celebrity" of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, which is received daily There were more than 12,000 tourists; the 11.4 kilometers from Beiguan Gate to Gantang Gate in the Tongzhou section of the North Canal became navigable for tourism in October last year, attracting a large number of citizens to boat the Grand Canal.
More and more historical and cultural sites along the Grand Canal are "brightened up" and "lived" in the "protection first, inheritance priority".
From November 7th to November 15th this year, Beijing gathered the resources of the 7 districts along the Beijing section of the Grand Canal for the first time to host the 2020 Beijing Grand Canal Cultural Festival, which is a brand new comprehensive cultural brand event created by Beijing.
The Cultural Festival promotes the integrated development of culture and tourism through 39 themed activities including public participation, intangible cultural heritage activities, special exhibitions, cloud displays, and academic lectures, and attracts the whole society to participate in the protection and inheritance of the cultural heritage of the Grand Canal.
Currently, Beijing has initiated the creation of the “National 5A-level Tourist Attraction” of the Grand Canal Cultural Tourist Attraction.
The rejuvenated Millennium Canal is creating a brilliant cultural belt, a green ecological belt, and a colorful tourism belt to benefit people along the route.
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