China News Service, Hangzhou, October 21 (Wang Yifei) is another annual Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue.

From October 21 to 23, the 2021 China Grand Canal Cultural Belt Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue (hereinafter referred to as 2021 Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue) was held in Hangzhou.

With the theme of "Towards a Millennium Canal of Common Prosperity", the event deeply explored the value of the Grand Canal culture, highlighted the exemplary and leading role of the two places in the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, and promoted the creation of cultural canals, ecological canals, and charming canals in the entire river basin. Efforts will be made to shape and empower the demonstration zone for high-quality development and construction of common prosperity.

　　The Grand Canal that has been flowing for more than 2500 years is a magnificent poem written on the land of China.

General Secretary Xi Jinping gave important instructions on the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt: The Grand Canal is a precious heritage left to us by our ancestors, and it is a mobile culture that must be protected, inherited, and utilized in a coordinated manner.

　　To live up to history and create the future together is the mission entrusted by the new era.

In the 2020 Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue, the "China Grand Canal Cultural Belt Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue Five-Party Cooperation Mechanism Framework Agreement" was signed.

Photo by Sheng Jiapeng

Boost cultural self-confidence: Let the thousand-year cultural context continue to flow

　　If the Great Wall is the spiritual backbone of the Chinese nation, then the Grand Canal is the cultural bloodline of the Chinese nation.

　　In the first Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue, Comrade Cai Qi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, issued a special instruction on the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue on the Grand Canal Cultural Belt of China: "The Grand Canal is a precious heritage left to us by our ancestors and a flowing culture. This year is the Grand Canal. On the 5th anniversary of the successful application of the heritage, Beijing-Hangzhou held the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue on the China Grand Canal Cultural Belt to promote cultural exchanges and cooperation on the canal. It is a meaningful thing. I hope that this will serve as a platform to gather the wisdom and strength of the regions along the canal and implement Xi Jinping well. The general secretary’s important instructions and instructions are to jointly make due contributions to protecting, inheriting, and making good use of the Grand Canal."

　　The Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue is exploring the value of traditional culture by establishing a five-party cooperation mechanism consisting of the Beijing Municipal People’s Government Press Office, Zhejiang Provincial People’s Government Press Office, Hangzhou Municipal People’s Government, China News Service, and the World Canal Historical and Cultural City Cooperation Organization (WCCO). , Strengthening national cultural self-confidence and other aspects are playing a unique role.

　　On the one hand, it gathers the wisdom of all parties to build a consensus for the protection, inheritance, and use of the Grand Canal.

　　In the first Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue, Du Feijin, then member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department, pointed out that to better promote the creative transformation and innovative development of the Grand Canal culture, it is necessary to connect culture and technology to create a model of cultural heritage protection; With modern times, writing continuous and magnificent pictures of Chinese civilization and so on.

　　Zhu Guoxian, member of the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department, expressed the hope that Beijing and Hangzhou will strengthen resource sharing, project co-creation, and co-education of talents, and strive to promote refined protection, active inheritance, scientific utilization, and international display to jointly build the Grand Canal. The National Cultural Park makes the Grand Canal a beautiful business card for spreading the image of China, displaying Chinese civilization, and demonstrating cultural self-confidence.

　　According to Chen Junjun, president of China News Service, it is the bounden duty and mission of China News Service to create a cultural business card for the Chinese Canal and let the Grand Canal play a greater role in promoting exchanges and mutual learning of civilizations and building a community with a shared future for mankind.

China News Service will always pay attention to the Grand Canal, strive to tell the story of China's Grand Canal, and make every effort to spread the Chinese Grand Canal culture to the world.

　　Liu Xin, deputy secretary of the Hangzhou Municipal Party Committee and mayor, said that the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue is a river of happiness that connects all the cities and people of the Canal. It is also a major platform for cooperation and exchanges. The comprehensive bond and bridge of co-creation, happiness and sharing makes the Grand Canal truly become the "People's Canal."

　　Xu Jiang, vice chairman of the Chinese Federation of Literary and Art Circles and chairman of the Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles, believes that the Grand Canal of China is a long and flowing cultural treasure house, which contains the culture of "communication", "tour" and "containment", which requires greater cultural research and excavation.

　　On the other hand, the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue continued to promote the participation of the whole people, linking up the empathy of the children of China.

　　This year, the organizers set up a cultural exhibition, a large-scale Peking opera symphony tune "The Grand Canal in Beijing", the charming Beijing Zhejiang Week, the Grand Canal Temple Fair in China, an ecological canal-"Ecological restoration of soil and water governance" theme seminar, the Universiade and Ming-the Grand Canal With activities such as the Canal International Poetry Festival and the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue Gathering, the Millennium Grand Canal is alive and hot again.

　　"The prosperity of culture, the prosperity of the country. I hope that every Chinese son and daughter will work together to let the thousand-year cultural heritage continue to flow and the canal culture to continue." The Organizing Committee issued the "Co-construction and Sharing of the Grand Canal Culture Initiative" as it was written.

　　One after another cultural feasts, a more and more extensive cultural identity has been gathered.

In the Grand Canal Beijing-Hangzhou Yaji event of the 2019 Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue, Yang Kun, a national first-class actor of the Zhejiang Kunqu Opera Troupe, performed on the Grand Canal (Hangzhou section) of China.

Photo by Xu Jun

Create an open window: tell the Chinese story to the world

　　The Grand Canal connects eight provinces and cities including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui, and Shandong, Henan. The Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue is driving the whole river basin and all parties in society to jointly tell the Chinese story of the protection, inheritance and utilization of world heritage.

　　The five-party cooperation mechanism is a manifestation of the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue’s active expansion of the "Circle of Friends". It clarifies that Beijing and Hangzhou take turns to host events every year, regularly organizes media collections along the canal, and occasionally jointly organizes the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal video exhibition, etc., multi-platform and multi-channel Strengthen cooperation between cities along the canal.

　　Based on Beijing-Hangzhou, radiating river basins, and facing the world, the benefits of the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue have emerged.

　　In terms of promoting cooperation, this year the organizers organized the "Millennium Canal A Thousand Miles" Chinese and foreign media gathering activities to visit the cities along the Grand Canal such as Tongzhou in Beijing, Zaozhuang in Shandong, Yangzhou in Jiangsu, Hangzhou in Zhejiang and other cities along the Grand Canal. As a result, the international influence of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt has been enhanced.

　　In addition, the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue insists on inviting heads of international organizations, canal experts and international celebrities to participate in the conference to jointly build a community with a shared future for canal cities in the world.

　　Beijing signed the "North Canal Development and Construction Cooperation Framework Agreement" with Tianjin City and Hebei Province to promote regional coordinated development; it also organized the Grand Canal Cultural Belt Intangible Heritage Exhibition and Grand Canal Cultural Tour activities in conjunction with other seven provinces and cities along the route. Continue to expand the cultural influence of the canal and deepen exchanges and cooperation with cities along the route.

　　In recent years, Zhejiang has strengthened exchanges and cooperation with the Thames River in the United Kingdom, the Seine River in France, and the Rideau Canal in Canada, and has actively displayed and promoted the canal culture with the help of platforms such as the World Internet Conference and the Yangtze River Delta International Cultural Industry Expo.

　　The story of the Grand Canal is being heard more and more by the world.

The 2021 Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue's "Millennium Canal Traveling a Thousand Miles" Chinese and foreign media gathering activities were launched in Beijing.

Photo by Sheng Jiapeng

Stimulate the value of the times: push the canal story with a new look

　　Over the past three years, Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue has worked hard to strengthen the foundation of the new era and make the story of the Grand Canal always be new.

　　Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue assists in the development of urban benefits for the people.

In June of this year, the 40-kilometer waterway of the Beijing section of the Grand Canal ushered in full navigation.

Tourists can enjoy the scenery of the Beijing section of the Grand Canal by taking antique-style painting boats.

　　Mo Gaoyi, member of the Standing Committee of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Propaganda Department, stated that Beijing should protect the water vein, inherit the cultural heritage, and highlight the canal’s era style; promote the system to protect and inherit, research and excavate, environmental support, cultural and tourism integration, digital reproduction and other key projects. Make the Millennium Canal bloom with new brilliance in the new era.

It is necessary to promote the activation and utilization of resources, and build the Grand Canal Cultural Belt and the Grand Canal National Cultural Park into tangible projects that benefit the people, so that the Grand Canal culture can be integrated into people's lives.

　　In July of this year, Hangzhou also handed in an answer sheet: The Canal Grand Theater, the first major cultural project of 100 million yuan in the construction of the Zhejiang section of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, was completed and premiered in the Gongshu District of the city. A historical and cultural symbol glows with a new style in the new era.

　　The Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue promotes the implementation of industrial projects.

　　At the main forum of the Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue 2021, Beijing Tongzhou District and Hangzhou Gongshu District will sign a strategic cooperation framework agreement for friendly urban areas, and Hangzhou Canal Group will also sign a cooperation agreement with Beijing Shougang Construction Investment Co., Ltd. to further promote cooperation between the two places.

In the past three years, relevant cooperation results have been continuous: Hangzhou Canal Group has cooperated with Beijing Cultural Resources Center on the protection and utilization of old factory buildings and jointly promoted the optimization and upgrading of the cultural industry; Beijing Capital Group and Hangzhou Media Group have worked together to promote Beijing-Hangzhou based on the resources and advantages of both parties. Cultural exchanges and industrial development; the release of cultural financial products in China's Grand Canal Cultural Belt; the signing of the "Beijing-Zhejiang Cultural Tourism High-quality Development Cooperation Framework Agreement".

　　One river, one vein.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Dialogue is constantly inspiring constant innovation in the value of the Grand Canal in the new era.

It is a covenant to protect the grand canal for the millennium glory that history has bestowed on it, and it is also a promise to accompany the Grand Canal to a glorious future in its renewal.

　　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 Cultural Heritage, 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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