Recently, Liu Jie, member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, made a special investigation on the protection, inheritance and utilization of Grand Canal and the construction of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park. Qi Xiaohu, Zhu Jianming, and Miao Chengchao participated.
Ten Mile Silver Lake Villa, a millennium old canal. For many years, Hangzhou has vigorously implemented the comprehensive protection project of the canal, achieving the inheritance of urban texture and cultural heritage, mutual promotion and development, and improving the quality of life of coastal residents. The ancient canal is showing a delightful new appearance. Liu Jie came to the Wulinmen Wharf and took a boat along the river to check the water quality and water regime and the cultural protection, inheritance and utilization of Grand Canal. He said that Grand Canal is a flowing culture and a precious heritage left to us by our ancestors. We need to continue to do a good job in “water”, promote key projects such as water management, road network construction, and landscape improvement, and make water clean, lively, and dynamic. Subsequently, Liu Jie and his team disembarked from the Qiaoxi Pier and walked to inspect the historical district of Qiaoxi and Gongchen Bridge. For thousands of years, the ancient bridge and flowing water have left a profound historical and cultural accumulation, continuing the bustling atmosphere of fireworks in the city. Liu Jie walked and looked, saying that we should pay attention to exploring the connotation of historical and cultural heritage, carefully protect and utilize heritage sites such as Gongchen Bridge and Qiaoxi Historical Block, and form a canal culture boutique tourism line that changes scenery and highlights.
To the north of the city, new cultural landmarks of the Grand Canal are springing up. The construction of landmark projects such as the Small River Park, the Beijing Hangzhou Grand Canal Museum, and the Central Landscape Avenue in the north of the city are stepping up, and the construction of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park is in order. Liu Jie inspected the planning exhibition hall of Grand Canal National Cultural Park, presided over a symposium, and listened to the relevant reports. He pointed out that the Hangzhou section of the Grand Canal has been flowing for thousands of years and is “the treasure of the world and the lifeline of the city”. We should speed up the construction of Grand Canal National Cultural Park, put protection first, promote the construction of ten landmark projects at a high standard and level, build each project into a boutique project and classic scene, and ensure that a number of characteristic exhibition points and canal cultural space will be unveiled before the Asian Games. We should deeply study the profound impact of the Grand Canal on the urban development of Hangzhou, elucidate the contemporary value of the canal’s cultural heritage, accelerate the construction of an integrated protection, inheritance and utilization system and mechanism for the Grand Canal, strengthen the construction of a system for cultural research and creation, heritage living inheritance and exhibition, promote the deep integration of culture and tourism, the improvement of public space, and international communication and exchange, and benefit the people in a higher level and better form of protection, inheritance and utilization Enhance cultural confidence. (Chief journalist Zhao Fangzhou)