Recently, Xiuzhou District launched the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (Jiaxing Xiuzhou section) comprehensive treatment and protection project (hereinafter referred to as the “Grand Canal Comprehensive Protection Project”) conceptual planning scheme collection work. On July 7th, 16 well-known consulting units at home and abroad visited Xiuzhou to participate in the site survey, aiming to design the best scheme that is in line with the local reality and reflects the local characteristics. Let the Grand Canal heritage “live” up, polish the “golden name card” of the Grand Canal, Xiuzhou to open a new action.
If the Great Wall is the unyielding backbone of the Chinese nation, then the Grand Canal that runs through the north and south of China is the endless flowing blood of the Chinese nation. The Grand Canal is the earliest built, longest used and the largest space span artificial canal in the world. In June 2014, China’s Grand Canal project was successfully included in the World Heritage List, which means the birth of the first World cultural Heritage site in Jiaxing.
The Grand Canal runs through the whole area of Xiuzhou, with obvious canal heritage resources, including 1 world cultural heritage site, 2 national units, 4 provincial cultural units, 1 national and 5 provincial intangible cultural heritage, and 5 provincial historical and cultural blocks, 5 former residences of celebrities and 4 revolutionary sites.
The canal is the soul of the city, and the city is the carrier of the canal. With the canal protection as the starting point, guarding the historical roots and cultural genes of the city, in Xiuzhou, the emotion of care has been continuing. In recent years, the show district full implementation of “innovation, coordination, green, open, sharing” the new development concept, follow the cultural lead, overall propulsion, system layout, comprehensively improve water quality, “river” development “shore” economy, promote “belt” linkage, optimize the “surface” layout on this big article, the grand canal culture belt into a high grade high level of cultural corridor, ecological corridor, tourism corridor.
Water wave ripples, nourish the culture. For thousands of years, the Grand Canal has been flowing day and night, just like the Chinese culture. The Changhong Bridge across the canal is located in a nunnery by the river……… The flowing canal and the flowing culture have become the unique scenery in the development history of Xiuzhou city. At present, with the Grand Canal comprehensive protection project as the focus, promoting urban and rural construction and upgrading the urban energy level is one of the “three major events” that Xiuzhou is focusing on.
With the historical and cultural accumulation, the Xiuzhou section of the Grand Canal flows into the new era. The implementation of the Grand Canal Comprehensive Protection Project means that the protection, inheritance of Xiuzhou section of the Grand Canal is injected and utilized into the development of The Times, and will be integrated into the texture of building a modern main city with industry and city and urban and rural areas. Thinking deeply about the relationship between water and the city, Xiuzhou, with “beautiful water and dream continent”, will give full play to the advantages of “water” and improve the article of “city”, and promote the economic and social prosperity of the coastal area and society and the upgrading of the city level.
From “Urban River” to “Chengzhong River”, Xiuzhou section of the Grand Canal is on a new journey. The grand Canal comprehensive protection project is not only a comprehensive protection project, but also a lever point for Xiuzhou to highlight the splendid culture of the canal, reproduce the beautiful ecology of the canal, and realize the revitalization of the canal science and technology. To comprehensively promote the integration of the past and the present, as the pride of China and the miracle of the world, the spirit of exploration and innovation carried by the Grand Canal will come from ancient times to today and to the future, write a new chapter on the land of Xiuzhou, and condense a new crystallization of wisdom.
“Access to thousands of miles, transport the ancient and modern”. The Grand Canal flows leisurely for thousands of years, flowing into the distance. Water transport conservation water rhyme, water rhyme exciting water yun. Canal culture, the development of canal industry, activate the canal economy, enjoy the canal life, we are looking forward to, show continent through the grand canal to protect project, in the creative transformation and innovative development, make the grand canal heritage “live”, promote the grand canal culture in the new era, new journey constantly glow new luster, show the new atmosphere. Our commentary reporter Geng Li is not smooth enough