China News Service, Beijing, September 23 (Reporter Du Yanran Wenjuan Wang Yifei) Today, the 2020 China Grand Canal Cultural Belt Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue (referred to as "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue") with the theme of "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue on the Canal, Building and Sharing a New Future" Opened in Beijing.

Guests from all walks of life, politics, industry, academia, and research at home and abroad offered their suggestions and suggestions for protecting, inheriting, and making good use of the Grand Canal's world cultural heritage, and jointly polished the Grand Canal's "world cultural card".

  Work hard to produce more results and promote their transformation

  Du Feijin, member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda, stated in his opening speech that under the guidance of the national master plan, it is necessary to strengthen overall planning and coordination, innovate the management system, and steadily promote the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, and make every effort to protect, inherit and utilize the Grand Canal. The canal is a precious legacy left to us by our ancestors.

The "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" event is an important initiative to gather the wisdom and strength of provinces and cities along the Grand Canal.

Last year, the first "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" event was held in Hangzhou, leading to four major achievements.

This year, as the host, Beijing will provide service guarantees based on the first-class standards, strive to produce more results, and promote their transformation.

  Focusing on better promoting the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, Du Feijin put forward four proposals: focus on humanization and play a leading role in the development of culture.

Combined with the "14th Five-Year Plan" planning research and preparation, use the Grand Canal culture to sculpt urban space, lead value choices, cultivate institutional norms, and shape spiritual homes; promote rejuvenation and enhance cultural consciousness and cultural confidence in the new era.

Deepen the exploration and cognition of the cultural connotation of the Grand Canal in a multi-level, omni-directional and uninterrupted manner, do a good job in protection, repair and communication, explain the contemporary value of the Grand Canal culture; focus on integration and catalyze the innovative practice of regional coordinated development.

Promote shipping interoperability, tourism collaboration, factor interoperability, and industrial coordination along the Grand Canal, link major regional development strategies, promote urban and rural regional coordination, unblock the economic cycle along the route with a modern circulation system, demonstrate connectivity dividends, and create thousands of values; deepen exchanges, Compose a new chapter in the dialogue between Chinese and foreign civilizations.

This year's Beijing Airlines Dialogue strengthened the interaction with the world canal historical and cultural city cooperation organization, and promoted the integration of cities along the route into the big family of world canal cities.

  Strengthen resource sharing between Beijing, Zhejiang and Beijing-Hangzhou

  "Today is almost a year away from last year's'Double Cities Agreement'. In the past year, the Zhejiang section of the Grand Canal has seen new developments and changes." Zhu Guoxian, member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda, said at the opening ceremony that Zhejiang is a great The Canal has drawn up a new blueprint for sustainable development. In April this year, the "Zhejiang Grand Canal Cultural Protection, Inheritance and Utilization Implementation Plan" was officially released and implemented, starting from eight aspects including cultural heritage protection, famous cities and towns promotion, and intangible heritage protection and inheritance. , Is committed to creating a Zhejiang sample for the protection, inheritance and utilization of the Grand Canal culture.

At the same time, Zhejiang has customized the "protection suits" of laws and regulations for the Grand Canal. The "Regulations on the Protection of the World Cultural Heritage of the Grand Canal in Zhejiang Province" have been submitted to the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of Zhejiang Province for deliberation and is expected to be promulgated within this year.

  "Hangzhou wharf is loaded with rice, and one fiber is pulled to Beijing."

Zhu Guoxian said that the ancient sayings on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal revealed the historical origins of the two cities formed by the river.

In the future, it is necessary to take the "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" as an opportunity to further strengthen resource sharing, project co-creation and talent co-cultivation between Beijing, Zhejiang and Beijing-Hangzhou, so that the old canal can be given new vigor and vitality.

  The Grand Canal is a precious heritage left by our ancestors and a flowing culture.

Liu Xin, deputy secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee and mayor, said that today's Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue is a river of happiness that connects all the cities and people of the Canal, and it is also a major platform for cooperation and exchanges.

  He said that in the future, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal should be built into a comprehensive link and bridge of "cultural concentricity, economic co-construction, technological co-creation, and happiness sharing", so that the Grand Canal can truly become "the people's canal."

  Mutual integration to build a "global canal"

  Chen Lujun, President of China News Agency, said that in December 2019, the "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" was launched in Hangzhou; from Hangzhou to Beijing, the second "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" arrived today as scheduled. Old and new friends gathered to discuss protection, inheritance, Make good use of the world cultural heritage of the Grand Canal and join hands to build the Grand Canal Cultural Belt in China.

  He said: We were once "blocked" and "isolated", but today we have successfully realized this hard-won wish-full load "turns", "reaches" the world, gathered on the Tongzhou Grand Canal River, "transport" He "tong" is our auspicious character and key word today.

Although from a global perspective, the pause button that the new crown pneumonia epidemic has pressed for all mankind is far from fully released, but the road to recovery is like the water of the Grand Canal, which is slow and sure.

  "We believe that the culture of the Grand Canal is open and inclusive." Chen Junjun said that the Grand Canal has been a thousand-year-old business road since ancient times. The river is the line and the city is the pearl. It has a distinctive open gene.

The Grand Canal culture can respond to the complex external environment with an attitude of tolerance and openness, and promote exchanges and mutual learning with a cultural language that all mankind can experience, realize mutual integration, and build a "global Grand Canal."

  Chen Lujun said that the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue platform will gather multiple forces and will definitely revitalize the cultural resources of the Grand Canal, promote the implementation of cultural industrialization, and provide practical functions for the people's better life.

In the context of the accelerated construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, all parties should innovate, empower new lives with new technologies, achieve cross-border integration, and stimulate the value of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the new era.

  The "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" event was co-sponsored by the Beijing Municipal People’s Government Press Office, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government Press Office, Hangzhou Municipal People’s Government, and China News Service; it was co-sponsored by China News Weekly, Beijing Radio and Television, Beijing Yuexun Magazine, and China News Organized by Zhejiang Branch, Sino-Singapore Hyatt Media Group, Hangzhou Canal Group, etc.; World Canal Historical and Cultural City Cooperation Organization (WCCO), etc. provide support, including "1+8+N" events, namely 1 main forum and The opening ceremony, 8 home events, and N theme events from Beijing, Zhejiang, and Hangzhou. Multi-sites, multi-sites, and multi-party linkages participated in the joint action of protecting, inheriting, and making good use of the Grand Canal to promote The construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt has moved from "beauties of each other" to "beautiful in common.

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