China News Service, Beijing, September 21 (Reporter Chen Jian) ​​The north end of the Millennium Grand Canal, the east end of Baili Chang'an Avenue, in the ancient capital of Gyeonggi, will usher in the second China Grand Canal Cultural Belt "Jinghang" on September 23. dialogue".

　　Looking out from the Tongzhou Hilton Hotel, where the event was held, you can clearly see the burning lighthouse that was built at the end of the sixth century a few hundred meters away.

The tower has an octagonal shape, 13 floors, and a brick-wood structure.

More than 2,000 copper bells hung on the whole tower sounded crisply or roundly under the clear sky and bright sun and in the saury autumn wind.

　　It is the tallest and largest tower in the Beijing area and the symbol of the northern end of the Grand Canal in China.

　　More than 2500 years ago, the Chinese created the longest and largest canal in the world with one stone and one soil.

It winds 3,200 kilometers, connecting north and south, crossing the five major water systems of the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Huai River, and the Haihe and Qiantang Rivers.

　　Nowadays, Beijing, the national political and cultural center, and Hangzhou, a beautiful city in the south of the Yangtze River, have started a dialogue to discuss the protection, inheritance, and utilization of the Grand Canal, and polish the "golden card" of the Grand Canal, a thousand-year-old historical treasure.

　　Today's Beijing has made a choice: protection first, inheritance first, from "sharing the big pie" to planning and building a sub-city center outside Beijing's central city.

　　Beijing City Sub-center is located at the end of the east-west axis of Chang'an Avenue and the end of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

Since ancient times, it has been the main road of Jingdong transportation, and also the hub of material transportation in Jiangnan and Saibei.

　　In recent years of archaeological exploration of historical rivers and docks, the historical water network and ancient docks of the Grand Canal, such as Tonghui River, Yudai River, North Canal and Shiba Wharf, have been protected according to local conditions.

　　Along the Beijing section of the Grand Canal, the ancient city of Luxian during the Western Han Dynasty, the ancient city of Tongzhou during the Northern Qi era, the ancient town of Zhangjiawan during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, and even the historical traffic corridor from Beijing to Liaodong along the front of Yanshan Mountain. They are all included in the overall historical and cultural protection plan, and some have been partially restored. Protective displays have been implemented in the form of relic parks to prevent inappropriate development and excessive commercialization.

　　In the process of protecting and inheriting the ancient rhyme of the Grand Canal, reducing development is a requirement, leaving white space and greening is the starting point, and co-construction and sharing is the goal.

　　Beijing reserves about 9 square kilometers of strategic blank areas in the sub-center, accounting for about 9% of urban and rural construction land.

The expansion area reserves a strategic blanking index of about 30 square kilometers, accounting for about 16% of urban and rural construction land.

　　At the same time, the municipal government finely controls every inch of land, delimits urban development, reduces the scale of production space, and improves the efficiency of industrial land utilization. Relying on the water network, green network, and road network, 12 people’s livelihood sharing groups and 36 will be formed. A number of modern public cultural facilities such as theaters, libraries, museums, etc. are planned to be built in beautiful neighborhoods in the shadow of green trees...

　　All hard constraints are framed by the carrying capacity of resources and environment.

　　The sub-central station integrated transportation hub project located near the waterfront wharf of the Grand Canal is undergoing construction of the main structure.

It is divided into three floors and can be interchanged with 3 railways, 3 subway lines and 1 suburban railway. After completion, it will become the largest underground comprehensive transportation hub in Asia.

　　The forest park not far away is called "Urban Green Heart" and is expected to officially welcome guests this Mid-Autumn Festival.

The "Lung of the Forest" in this city, spreading 11.2 square kilometers, will be open for free and become a place for people to relax and entertain.

　　Beijing steadily handles the relationship between water and city, blue and green, ancient and modern; near the ancient capital with a history of more than 3,000 years, and a history of more than 800 years, a blue-green eco-civilization belt has been constructed. The winding canal, the ancient city is born with the water, the green heart is layered and verdant, and the people live and work in peace and contentment.

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