China News Agency, Beijing, August 8th (Du Yan, Chen Hang, Xu Jing) On the evening of the 8th, the 2022 Beijing (International) Canal Culture Festival with the theme of "Traveling the Canal and Traveling the Universiade" opened on the banks of the Universiade in Tongzhou District, Beijing.

This cultural festival integrates cultural, tourism, sports and other resources along the line, and focuses on the three major sections of "Millennium Canal", "Colorful Canal" and "Vibrant Canal". The Cultural Festival has become an important window to showcase Chinese civilization to the world.

　　The Grand Canal of China is a world cultural heritage, connecting the north and the south, connecting the ancient and the modern, with a flowing context and a long history.

　　Zhao Lei, Member of the Standing Committee and Secretary General of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, Executive Deputy Secretary of the Party Working Committee of the Beijing Municipal Deputy Center, Executive Deputy Director of the Management Committee, and Secretary of the Tongzhou District Committee of Beijing, said in his opening speech that the Grand Canal Cultural Festival is a grand event to promote canal culture. Since it was held in 2020, it has been recognized and welcomed by the canal cities and people at home and abroad, and has become one of the most dazzling cultural brands in Beijing, building a valuable platform for strengthening cultural exchanges, achievements and interactive experience in the canal.

　　"Telling the story of the Grand Canal in the new era and writing a new chapter in the protection, inheritance and utilization of the Grand Canal culture is a new topic entrusted to us by the times." Zhang Mingxin, editor-in-chief of China News Service, said at the opening ceremony that China News Agency attaches great importance to the Grand Canal He has participated in the international communication of culture and participated in the hosting of two Beijing Canal Cultural Festivals.

This year marks the 730th anniversary of Guo Shoujing's excavation of the Beijing section of the Grand Canal. China News Agency will use a variety of communication methods to carry out integrated media reports and presentations through all-media reporting, multi-subject collaboration, and multi-dimensional planning, through multiple platforms and channels. Actively promote and publicize to help the current Canal Culture Festival and the spread of China's Grand Canal culture at home and abroad.

　　Zhao Weidong, executive deputy director of the Publicity Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, pointed out that at present, the tourism channel of the Beijing-Hebei section of the Northern Canal is interconnected, and the first phase of the Luxian Ancient City Ruins Park has reached the opening conditions. Opening, the three major facilities of Beijing City Sub-Centre Theater, Library and Grand Canal Museum will also be completed by the end of this year.

Beijing will take this cultural festival as an opportunity to highlight international cultural exchanges, promote the in-depth integration of culture and tourism, promote the wide participation of the whole people, and demonstrate the profound cultural heritage of the Grand Canal. Belt, green ecological belt, and colorful tourism belt, polish the new business card of canal culture, and write a new chapter in the protection, inheritance and utilization of Grand Canal culture.

　　The World Canal carries the world's rich historical and cultural landscapes and unique human wisdom, and also shows the diversity of human civilization.

Alan MacFarlane, a professor at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, said in a video speech that the canal has played an interesting and important role in the progress of civilizations everywhere, especially for China.

China has many wonders of the world. The Grand Canal in China was built much earlier than the Roman Canal and stretches for more than a thousand kilometers. "With the canal, the spatial barriers between regions have been eliminated to a certain extent."

　　At the opening ceremony, the results of the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt cultural and exposition field were released, showing the excellent cases of archaeological excavations and repairs of ancient buildings along the Grand Canal in recent years; through the interactive holographic theatrical performance of virtual people, the ancient charm of the canal was combined with modern technology to interpret The ancient and modern canal culture.

　　This cultural festival is sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and China News Service. In the future, various cultural activities will be held in various districts along the Grand Canal (Beijing section), and various online and offline canal cultural benefit consumption themed activities will be launched to let the public Share the achievements of the protection, inheritance and utilization of the Grand Canal, and innovate and inherit the culture of the Grand Canal.

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