CANGZHOU, China, June 24,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The year 2024 marked the
10th anniversary of Grand Canal's UNESCO world heritage
listing. The success of the application has revitalized the Grand
Canal, which is a recognition of its historical value and an
expectation for its future protection and development. Cangzhou,
Hebei Province, has achieved
fruitful results in protecting, inheriting and utilizing the Grand
Canal culture.
Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the ancient canal with the longest
mileage and largest project in the world, is one of the oldest
canals. Known as one of the three great projects of ancient
China together with the Great Wall
and the Canal, and is used to this day, it is a great project
created by the ancient Chinese people, and is one of the symbols of
China's cultural status.
The Grand Canal winds 216 kilometers in the land of Cangzhou, it
not only nourishes the hot land of the Lion City of Cangzhou, but
also shapes the spiritual character of the city. The prosperity of
Cangzhou cannot be separated from the gift of the Grand Canal. From
a major transportation town in the Ming and Qing dynasties to a
logistics hub and cultural carrier, the canal is like a blood
vessel of the city, flowing with economic vitality and carrying
cultural confidence.
The water veins are connected to the cultural veins, and the
cultural energy and popularity are intermingled. Over the past ten
years, Cangzhou has responded positively, making full use of the
Grand Canal resources within its borders to create a unique canal
cultural tourism. Just past this Dragon Boat Festival, the dance
unicorn non-legacy show, Cangzhou Square matchmaking activities,
Jinshi topography experience ...... a series of colorful cultural
activities in the Grand Canal wonderful staged.
In 2022, Cangzhou formulated the "Grand Canal National Cultural
Park (Cangzhou Section) Construction and Protection Plan",
proposing to take the Grand Canal as a link, focusing on building 9
tourist attractions and resorts, 8 cultural industry parks, 15
ancient towns and villages and cultural and tourism towns, as well
as 33 cultural and ecological parks.2023, with the opening of the
old street in Nanchuan, the opening of the Sixth Garden Expo in
Hebei Province in Cangzhou and
other nodes, a large number of tourists flock to Cangzhou.
In order to better spread the canal culture, Cangzhou
actively participates in all kinds of tourism expositions, deepens
the integration of agriculture, culture and tourism, and creates
highlights such as Wuqiao acrobatics and rural tourism
demonstration zones. The water tour route of the Cangzhou section
of the Grand Canal connects many historical and cultural nodes,
providing travelers with a rich variety of tour options.
Cangzhou has not only enhanced its image as a tourist
destination, but also contributed to the synergistic development of
Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei
culture and tourism.
Standing on a new historical starting point, Cangzhou will
continue to polish the cultural "golden card" of the Grand Canal,
write a new chapter for the high-quality development of cultural
and tourism undertakings, so that more people will understand and
fall in love with Cangzhou through the Grand Canal, and let the
Grand Canal, which has flowed for thousands of years, blossom into
a new era of luster!
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SOURCE Cangzhou Municipal Government