Yesterday, the second Zhejiang Grand Canal World Cultural Heritage Publicity Week was launched in Nanxun District. The publicity week, with the theme of “The Same Canal: Millennium Canal Love, Centennial Dream of Shared Prosperity”, planned a series of exciting activities such as the launch of the ancient city revitalization plan and the Hangzhou Ningbo City Dialogue. It deeply explored the cultural value of the canal, carried out canal folk customs activities that the masses enjoyed and participated in, showcased the touching charm of the Zhejiang section of the Grand Canal’s world cultural heritage, and further united the efforts of the whole society to jointly protect the same canal The same dream.
A river connects north and south, and a vein spreads for thousands of years. The Grand Canal in history is open and inclusive, connecting rivers and seas, not only integrating the power of rivers, but also integrating the cultural heritage of various regions. The Zhejiang section of the Grand Canal, listed in the The World Heritage List, has five sections of rivers, 327 kilometers long, flowing through five districts and cities, 13 heritage sites, 26.58 square kilometers of heritage area and 103.59 square kilometers of buffer zone.
This year marks the eighth year of the successful application of the Grand Canal for World Heritage, and also the first anniversary of the promulgation and implementation of the Zhejiang Province Grand Canal World Cultural Heritage Protection Regulations, which is the first provincial-level local legislation for the protection of the Grand Canal in China.
In recent years, taking advantage of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta, Nanxun has established the “Huzhou Integration Shanghai Innovation Cooperation Zone”. As one of the core areas of the Shanghai Cooperation Zone, Nanxun Ancient Town will showcase its ancient charm and modern style. The relevant person in charge of Nanxun District said that the next step will take the construction of the Grand Canal Poetry Road Cultural Belt as an opportunity, take the protection, inheritance and utilization of the canal’s historical resources as a starting point, build a new model of “canal+culture+tourism”, create a bright cultural belt, green ecological belt, and colorful tourism belt of the Grand Canal, and make the Grand Canal a “river of prosperity, happiness, and common prosperity”.
On the same day, the “Zhejiang Grand Canal World Cultural Heritage Monitoring System” was officially launched and put into operation. It is reported that the system comprehensively utilizes technologies such as geographic information, remote sensing monitoring, the Internet of Things, and cloud computing to achieve an interface that provides a comprehensive overview of the basic data of the world cultural heritage (in the Zhejiang section), horizontally coordinates data from multiple departments such as natural resources, ecological environment, transportation and water conservancy, and connects the national, provincial, municipal, and county management systems, empowering world heritage protection through digital reform, It will help to comprehensively enhance the protection and management capabilities and level governance capabilities of the Grand Canal (Zhejiang section).