China News Service, Hangzhou, October 22 (Qian Chenfei) The Millennium Grand Canal ushered in another annual event.
On October 22, the 2021 China Grand Canal Cultural Belt Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue (hereinafter referred to as 2021 Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue) opened in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. The theme of this event was "Towards a Millennium Canal of Common Prosperity".
Zhu Guoxian, Member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department, Mo Gaoyi, Member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Director of the Propaganda Department, Chen Junjun, President of China News Service, and Liu Xin, Deputy Secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee and Mayor of Hangzhou, attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches.
The Grand Canal of China is a national cultural business card and a world cultural heritage. In order to further implement the spirit of General Secretary Jinping’s important instructions on the overall protection, inheritance, and use of the Grand Canal, we will give full play to the importance of the north and south ends of Beijing-Hangzhou in the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt. Demonstration leading and radiating leading role, promoting multi-site, multi-site, multi-party joint action to protect and inherit the use of the Grand Canal, highlight the achievements of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt construction, and enhance the international influence of China's Grand Canal Cultural Belt, Beijing, 2019 The Information Office of the Municipal People's Government, the Information Office of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government, the Hangzhou Municipal People's Government, and the China News Service co-sponsored the "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" in Hangzhou.
It is determined that Beijing and Hangzhou will alternately host the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue on the Grand Canal Cultural Belt of China every year, and drive the areas along the Grand Canal to expand the cooperation consensus on the protection, inheritance and utilization of the cultural heritage of the Grand Canal.
The first event has formed four major achievements: good protection, good inheritance, and good use of the Grand Canal's new “three good” actions, new cooperation mechanisms, new explorations, and building new platforms.
In 2020, the World Canal Historical and Cultural City Cooperation Organization (WCCO) will join the "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" cooperation mechanism. The five parties will host the "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" series of activities to demonstrate the cooperative consensus on the protection, inheritance and utilization of the cultural heritage of the Grand Canal.
The 2020 Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue was held in Beijing. Nearly 20 home events were launched, and five major achievements were achieved, including further expansion of the "friend circle", recognition of consensus, wonderful culture, landing in the industry, and dissemination of new highlights.
From Hangzhou to Beijing, returning to Hangzhou this year, the 2021 Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue will arrive as scheduled.
The three-day event, with the theme of "Going to the Millennium Canal of Common Prosperity", will carry out "1+N" events, namely an opening ceremony and main forum, as well as multiple events. Discussions, cultural integration, artistic elegance, cultural tourism promotion, scientific and technological exchanges, industrial landing, and media communication are all integrated to form a cultural feast.
2021 China Grand Canal Cultural Belt Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue kicked off in Hangzhou.
Photo courtesy of the organizer
In the main forum, the organizer and the guests from all walks of life, politics, industry, academia and research at home and abroad jointly spoke for the construction of China's Grand Canal Cultural Belt and Grand Canal National Cultural Park, and made suggestions for protecting, inheriting, and making good use of the Grand Canal World Cultural Heritage. Provide suggestions for the Millennium Grand Canal to move towards common prosperity.
Beijing Tongzhou is the northern head of the Qianli Canal, and Hangzhou Gongshu is located at the southernmost end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
At the main forum, Beijing Tongzhou District and Hangzhou Gongshu District signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement for a friendly urban area. Hangzhou Canal Group will also sign a cooperation agreement with Beijing Shougang Construction Investment Co., Ltd. to further promote cooperation between the two places.
The Grand Canal is a river of culture.
2021 Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue cultural activities are splendid, including the cultural exhibition "Towards the Millennium Canal of Common Prosperity", the large-scale Peking Opera symphony suite "The Grand Canal in Beijing", the charming Beijing Zhejiang Zhou cultural tourism event, the Chinese Grand Canal temple fair, the brand launch of the Canal Cultural Tourism and the Grand Canal Fortune and Ming-Grand Canal International Poetry Festival, Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue Gathering, etc., with the help of cultural and artistic means, showcase the prosperous culture on both sides of the Grand Canal and the common prosperity of common people's lives.
Among them, starting on the 22nd, Beijing will host the charming Beijing Zhejiang Week Cultural Tourism Activities on the banks of the Hangzhou Universiade. The activities will take a diversified form to integrate Beijing’s rich and colorful cultural formats into the historic district of the Canal in Hangzhou, and showcase to citizens and tourists in all aspects The charm of the capital Beijing.
Hangzhou section of the China Grand Canal.
Photo by Wang Gang
In 2022, the two places will welcome the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Hangzhou Asian Games respectively.
During the "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" event, the organizers will invite the Beijing Winter Olympics mascot to Hangzhou Gongchen Bridge, and together with the Hangzhou Asian Games mascot "Chen Chen", lead the public to tour the canal, talk about culture, and conduct a "dream linkage" ".
In the historical and cultural district of Hangzhou Canal, the China Grand Canal Temple Fair has also recently opened. Through fairs, intangible cultural heritage exhibitions, national customs and artistic interpretations, the Grand Canal’s cultural customs, scientific and technological innovation and urban features are spread and displayed.
On the afternoon of October 22, Beijing's large-scale Peking Opera Symphony Suite "Beijing Grand Canal" was staged at the Hangzhou Grand Theater.
As the first stage art work focusing on the Beijing section of the Grand Canal in China, the play combines symphony and Peking opera art, and uses stage form for the first time to display the historical relics and cultural features of the Beijing section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in a three-dimensional manner, excavating and promoting its value of the times.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue Gathering will be staged on the 23rd, centering on art forms such as opera, poetry, calligraphy and painting, singing and dancing, artists from Beijing and Zhejiang will be invited to gather along the canal to enjoy the beautiful scenery, show their talents, and carry out cultural exchanges between the North and the South.
In addition, a seminar on the theme of "Ecological Restoration of Water and Soil Co-government" will be held during the event.
The scene of the Chinese Grand Canal Temple Fair.
Photo courtesy of the organizer
The Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue is also an exchange facing the world.
On the eve of the opening of the 2021 Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue, Chinese and foreign media set off from the Beijing Grand Canal and passed through Shandong, Jiangsu and other areas along the canal, and arrived in Hangzhou to participate in the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue. All-media actions, using various forms such as text, pictures, live broadcasts, and short videos, and making full use of new forms, new media, and new platforms to tell the world the story of China’s Grand Canal, to show the world the style of the ancient canal in the new era, and to help the world The canal has become a beautiful business card that showcases Chinese civilization, demonstrates cultural self-confidence, and shapes China's image.
The burning lighthouse shadows hundreds of miles, and the Wangchen Pavilion overlooks the stars. It flows from history to the future, from "beauty in each" to "beautiful and beautiful together". The Millennium Canal is rejuvenated in the "flow" and "incubated in the dialogue". machine".
The "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" has become a classic work for Beijing-Zhejiang and Beijing-Hangzhou to jointly tell the canal story and an important window for spreading Chinese Grand Canal culture to the world.
It is reported that the 2021 Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue is hosted by the Press Office of the Beijing Municipal People’s Government, the Press Office of the Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government, the Hangzhou Municipal People’s Government, the China News Service, and the World Canal Historical and Cultural City Cooperation Organization (WCCO). It is hosted by the Hangzhou Municipal People’s Government Press Office and Hangzhou City Canal Group, Hangzhou Municipal Bureau of Gardens and Culture, China News Agency Zhejiang Branch, Hangzhou Gongshu District People's Government, Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, China News Photo Network, Beijing Yuexun Magazine.
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