China News Service, Beijing, October 17 (Reporter Du Yan and Xu Jing) Today, the 2021 "China Grand Canal Cultural Belt Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" "Millennium Canal Journey" and "Fall in Love with the Grand Canal" Chinese and foreign media gathering activities at the Grand Canal Beijing Start on Duan Huafang.

A collection group composed of more than 30 central, Beijing, Zhejiang and overseas media will visit Tongzhou in Beijing, Zaozhuang in Shandong, Yangzhou in Jiangsu, Hangzhou in Zhejiang and other cities along the Grand Canal. What we have seen and heard shows the results of the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, promotes multi-site, multi-site, and multi-party joint actions to protect, inherit and use the Grand Canal, and enhance the international influence of China's Grand Canal Cultural Belt.

On October 17, the "Millennium Canal Journey" and "Fall in Love with the Grand Canal" Chinese and foreign media gathering activities were launched in Beijing.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng

　　The Chinese and foreign media gathering activities were co-sponsored by the Beijing Municipal People’s Government Information Office, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government Information Office, Hangzhou Municipal People’s Government, China News Service, and the World Canal Historical and Cultural City Cooperation Organization (WCCO).

　　Xu Hejian, Deputy Minister of the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Director of the Information Office of the Beijing Municipal People’s Government, pointed out in his speech that the Information Office of the Beijing Municipal People’s Government, the Information Office of the Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government, and the Hangzhou Municipal People’s Government have , China News Service and the World Canal Historical and Cultural Cities Cooperation Organization have innovatively established the "Five-Party Cooperation Mechanism" and have successfully hosted two Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogues on the China Grand Canal Cultural Belt.

On October 17, the "Millennium Canal Journey" and "Fall in Love with the Grand Canal" Chinese and foreign media gathering activities were launched in Beijing.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng

　　The first "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" in 2019 was hosted by Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, and formed the "Four Major Achievements" of the new "Three Goods" actions, new cooperation mechanisms, new explorations, and new platforms for protecting, inheriting, and making good use of the Grand Canal.

In 2020, the second "Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" will be hosted by Beijing. Nearly 20 home events will be launched, and the circle of friends will be expanded again, the recognition will be reached, the culture will be wonderful, the industry will be implemented, and the spread of new highlights will be the "Five Major Achievements". The dissemination volume exceeded 1.5 billion person-times, forming a cultural feast of government-industry-university-research results release, expert seminars, cultural integration, artistic gatherings, cultural and tourism promotion, scientific and technological exchanges, industrial landings, and media communication.

　　This year is the third session of the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue.

Beijing will launch the Millennium Canal Culture Exhibition at the main venue of the Grand Canal Music Park in Hangzhou. Going south to Hangzhou, it will exhibit 104 kinds of canal-themed works such as "Water Transport Trilogy", and "Lighting Buddha Stupa" and other non-legacy national gifts.

The first large-scale Peking opera symphony suite "The Grand Canal in Beijing" focusing on the Beijing section of the Grand Canal in China will be performed at the Hangzhou Grand Theater. The charming Beijing Zhejiang Zhou will start in Hangzhou. Poets and artists from Beijing and Hangzhou will also participate in the closing ceremony of the Grand Canal International Poetry Festival. Gathering and other activities to carry out cultural exchanges between Beijing and Hangzhou.

　　Xu Hejian emphasized that it is the historical mission and common responsibility of media professionals to deeply explore the rich historical and cultural resources of the Grand Canal, strengthen the exchange and mutual learning of the canal civilization and the interconnection of the world canal countries, promote the canal culture, and promote Sino-foreign exchanges.

It is hoped that the media reporters participating in the collection will use real feelings, unique perspectives, sincere brushstrokes and professional lenses to focus on the effectiveness of measures to protect water veins, inherit cultural lines, empower arteries, and gather connections in Beijing and other provinces and cities along the route. Produce more, better, and more moving Grand Canal to disseminate fine works, and jointly tell the story of Beijing-Hangzhou dialogue, tell the story of the Grand Canal, tell the story of China, and contribute wisdom and strength to the exchange and mutual learning of world civilizations.

The 40-kilometer Beijing section of the Grand Canal is fully navigable for tourism.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng

　　Wang Min, the vice president of China News Agency, said in his speech that China News Agency attaches great importance to the international communication of the Grand Canal culture. It has participated in hosting the first two Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogues of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt of China, the first Beijing Grand Canal Cultural Festival and the 2021 Beijing ( International) Canal Culture Festival.

In order to further protect, inherit and make good use of the historical and cultural value of the Grand Canal, and to promote the integrated development of culture and tourism in the areas along the route, China News Service and the Beijing Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department jointly organized the "Millennium Canal for a Thousand Miles" Chinese and foreign media gathering activities, via the high-speed rail and the canal, Use integrated media communication channels such as text, pictures, live broadcasts, and short videos to show the world the new look of the ancient canal in the new era.

China News Agency will also mobilize the entire platform, coordinate all departments of the whole agency and multiple branches along the Grand Canal to carry out reports, make full use of new forms, new media, and new platforms to promote international and domestic communication and tell the story of the Grand Canal.

　　Wang Yingzhong, member of the Party Committee and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Hangzhou Culture Radio and Television Group, said in his speech that in the past two years, in order to "live" the Millennium Canal, Hangzhou has pressed the accelerator button for the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, especially since this year. , A number of canal cultural landmarks are being "newed" one after another, most of which will be unveiled before the Asian Games next year.

In 2019, Hangzhou Media and Broadcasting Group joined hands with Beijing Radio and Television to jointly launch the "Fall in Love with the Grand Canal" large-scale cross-provincial all-media media center in nine cities along the canal in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang, as well as brother media. The action formed a matrix of new media communication with four levels of linkage between the central, provincial, municipal, and district levels, and achieved the effect of resonance at the same frequency around the "Grand Canal".

This year, the 2021 "China Grand Canal Cultural Belt Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue" will open in Hangzhou, and the launch of the "Ya Song Yunzhi Millennium Canal" 2021 "Fall in Love with the Grand Canal" all-media campaign will land in Beijing, as well as Jining in Shandong, Yangzhou in Jiangsu, and Hangzhou in Zhejiang. We will help build cultural canals, ecological canals, and charming canals, and strive to shape and build souls for high-quality development and construction of a common prosperity demonstration zone.

On October 17, the "Millennium Canal Journey" and "Fall in Love with the Grand Canal" Chinese and foreign media gathering activities were launched in Beijing.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Sheng Jiapeng

　　After the launching ceremony, Chinese and foreign media went to the Grand Canal Academy, Yuedao Wenying and other scenic spots to collect the scenery.

Next, the "Millennium Canal A Thousand Miles" Chinese and foreign media gathering activities and the "Ya Song Yunzhi Millennium Canal" 2021 "Fall in Love with the Grand Canal" omni-media campaign will proceed in two ways. Chinese and foreign media will follow the Grand Canal and record with cameras and text. What we have seen and heard in the "Thousand Miles" show the ecological and cultural landscape of the symbiosis of water and city and harmony between human and water. Through telling and disseminating the story of the Grand Canal, it promotes multi-site, multi-point and multi-party linkage to participate in protection, inheritance and utilization. The joint action of the Canal will enhance the international influence of China's Grand Canal Cultural Belt.

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