On June 16th in Yangzhou City of Jiangsu Province holds the Grand Canal Development Forum and the opening ceremony of China Grand Jing-Hang Canal Museum. Liu Qibao, vice chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, delivers a speech. Attendees are Lou Qinjian, the secretary of Hiangsu Province Party Committee, Wu Zhenglong, the governor of Jiangsu Province and the deputy secretary of it’s province party committee, Jiang Jianguo, the vice minister of Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, and Rao Quan, the vice minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. The host is Zhang Aijun, member of the Standing Committee of CPC Committee of Jiangsu Province and the minister of publicity department.
Liu Qibao points out that the CPC Central Committee and the State Council attach great importance to protection, inheritance and exploitation of grand canal culture. The general secretary Xi Jinping has given important directions repeatedly which point the direction and offer guidance. Standing on a new starting point, we will learn the spirit of Xi Jinping’s important instructions. We will understand the new development stage, stick to the new development ideology, construct the new development structure, combine knowledge from the past and the present, inherit legacy and face the future to create a new condition to protect, inherit and promote grand canal culture. We will stick to see ecology and green development as priority to start a new chapter to preserve and improve the ecological environment of the drainage basin of the grand canal. As for the relationship between culture and tourism, we will use the former to shape the latter and the latter to promote the former to construct a new structure of the integrated development between the culture and tourism of the grand canal. We hold the idea that people and environment should develop harmoniously to create a situation where people and river co-exist in a harmonious way. We stick to promote international communication as well as reform and opening up and build a new high land of communication and cooperation for world canal culture. With measures above, we can push forward the high-quality construction and development of grand canal cultural belt and national cultural park.
Wu Zhenglong says in his speech that this activity will be important for the inheritance of canal culture, for telling canal story, for the promotion of canal culture and benefit of people along the river. The government of Jiangsu Province will study and stick to the spirit of the general secretary Xi Jinping’s important speeches and instruction to finish the great cause of protection, inheritance and exploitation. We will build a grand canal national cultural park with experience draw form the world, Chinese style and characters of Jiangsu Province to make the section of the canal in the province an amazing representative of Jiangsu. We will finish the mission of “be an example to step forward” to add driving force to enable the province to have strong economy, rich people, beautiful environment and high-degree of ethic and moral standards.
Jiang Jianguo says in his speech that building national cultural park is an important decision made by the CPC Central Committee with Xi Jinping as it’s core as well as a significant cultural program to push cultural development and prosperity in a new era. We need to thoroughly implement the spirit of general secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions to promote the construction of grand canal national cultural park, so we can strive to make the canal a representative of China’s image in a new era, a cultural corridor to inherit Chinese civilization, a happy home that is harmonious, beautiful and livable and a communication platform to tell Chinese story well. Measures above offer stronger support to build a country with strong culture and to step on a new journey.
Rao Quan says in his speech that with joint effort, the authority needs to implement the spirit of general secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions, protect and inherit grand canal culture, promote the high-quality development of culture and tourism along the canal and to tell the story of the canal to the world. The grand canal should be shaped as a good example to promote Chinese image as well as to present Chinese civilization and confidence in culture.
Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum is a modern comprehensive museum with canal as the theme and with integrated functions of cultural relics conservation, research, exhibition and social education. The museum now has more than 10 thousand pieces (sets) of ancient books, documents, calligraphy, paintings, inscriptions, chinaware, metalware and other things, all of which are from the current era or date back to as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. Exhibitions held there can show value of times, contemporary image and thousands of years of culture.