At the 2022 Beijing (International) Canal Culture Festival held here, Chen Mingjie, director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Heritage, said that the construction of the Beijing section of the Grand Canal has achieved fruitful results, and the archaeology of the Grand Canal has been discovered.
Since 2021, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Heritage has organized 102 archaeological excavations projects in seven districts along the Beijing section of the Grand Canal, covering an area of about 100,000 square meters.
” The archaeological work clarified the shape and preservation of the south gate; the archaeological staff cleared a certain number of wood and bamboo slips from the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is the first discovery in the Han Dynasty site in Beijing.
” Chen Mingjie said.
Chen Mingjie said that in the past year, the seven districts along the Beijing section of the Grand Canal have implemented 126 various cultural relics protection projects.
The new architectural remains on Wanshou Temple East Road have been protected and renovated.
On the basis of the removal of cultural relics and the village relocation, the Grand Canal Source Site Park has carried out systematic environmental remediation, repair and protection, digitization of resources and archives management, and will be officially opened around October this year.
Chen Mingjie said that the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Heritage also organized the Beijing Institute of Archaeology to carry out disease investigation and monitoring data collection in the Tonghui River section of the Grand Canal, set up 89 monitoring points in the Grand Canal heritage section, and conducted data collection and inspections with three-dimensional laser scanning and panoramic VR cameras.
The investigation and archives of ancient Bridges in Beijing, comprehensively identified 88 ancient Bridges with traffic functions, and clarified the spatial distribution rules and preservation status.
” A number of museums light up the Grand Canal Cultural belt.
By the end of July 2022, there were 165 registered museums in the seven districts along the Grand Canal, and 10 new registered museums have been added since 2021.
The Beijing Grand Canal Museum (the East Museum of the Capital Museum) was officially named. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2022 and open to the public by the end of 2023.
The first phase of the Archaeological Park has been completed, and the second phase greening project of the project is under construction and is expected to be completed in June 2023 and open in 2024.
” Chen Mingjie said.