Focus on the two sessions of the National People’s Congress and listen to the suggestions of He Yunao, Wang Xiaofei and other Committee members on the canal!
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He Yunao, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference: The construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt needs to balance "between light and heavy" and "change of square inch"
With the opening of the annual National People’s Congress, the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt has become a hot topic. He Yunao, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and director of the Institute of Culture and Natural Heritage of Nanjing University, suggested that the construction of the Grand Canal cultural belt should not be "one size fits all", but should be balanced between "light and heavy" and "change of square inch", so as to better promote the rejuvenation of the Grand Canal in China.
The Millennium Grand Canal is not only a flowing river, but also an endless context. The Grand Canal in China is an artificial canal with the earliest digging time, the longest span, the longest mileage and the longest use time in the world, and it can be called "a living cultural heritage corridor". How to better understand the culture of the Grand Canal in live transmission and boost the Millennium context is a long-term research topic for He Yunao.
He Yunao observed that although the cities along the canal in China are actively promoting the construction of the canal cultural belt, there is an imbalance among provinces and cities. "Every city along the Grand Canal has its own unique resources, which can make it beautiful and beautiful. The positioning and development concept of the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt in different cities should be clear, and it is necessary to clarify its own cultural characteristics, give full play to its advantages, and adhere to the combination of key breakthroughs and overall promotion. "
He Yunao believes that in order to achieve this, it is necessary to promote the organic interaction between the top-level design and the pilot projects in various places, and the city governments along the Grand Canal should implement targeted policies and elaborate projects.
Which is more important, the material and intangible cultural heritage along the Grand Canal? After many years’ observation, He Yunao thinks that there is a phenomenon of attaching importance to material culture and neglecting intangible culture in the construction of canal cultural belts around the country. In the planning and construction projects, there are many material construction projects, while the intangible cultural construction is few and empty, and many intangible cultural heritages have not been explored, inherited and developed as they should be.
"For example, intangible cultural heritage related to the canal, such as traditional crafts, traditional fine arts and traditional operas, is not attractive to young people, and public attention and participation are not high." He Yunao said frankly that due to the changes of the times and environment, there are still many traditional skills based on farming civilization, which have fallen into a shrinking or even disappearing situation.
Similarly, the "light and heavy" of the Grand Canal is also reflected in the leading role of government forces and the low participation of non-governmental forces, which is one of the reasons for the above problems and the way to break the situation.
"The canal culture has a single form of inheritance, and the enthusiasm of social forces and private capital participation is not high, and there is no good trend of three-dimensional and comprehensive inheritance." He Yunao said.
In this regard, He Yunao proposed that in the process of building the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, we should always adhere to both material culture and intangible culture, and both hands should be hard. Only by "combining hard and soft" and "paying equal attention to both hard and soft" can the Grand Canal cultural belt be preserved and passed on better and more completely.
After thousands of years of circulation, the canal has unloaded the burden of water transportation and turned to be reborn in the form of ecological pearl, waterway and cultural treasure. The fireworks left by the riverside need to grasp the "change of square inch" in order to be better preserved.
He Yunao believes that the cultural heritage of the Grand Canal is rich and colorful, and the protection and inheritance should be classified and implemented, instead of "one size fits all". "What can live should be used as much as possible, and let it enter people’s production and life. It is necessary to improve the quality and cultural content of non-legacy projects, improve applicability, explore cultural connotations, tell non-legacy stories well, and enhance brand influence. "
"For example, the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt and the National Cultural Park will better promote the protection, inheritance and utilization of the Grand Canal and enhance the world’s understanding and recognition of China’s excellent traditional culture. Let the canal culture be integrated into people’s daily lives and let everyone participate in protecting and sharing the canal culture, so as to strengthen cultural self-confidence, highlight the excellent cultural characteristics of China and enhance the influence of Chinese civilization. " He Yunao said.
He Yunao and other CPPCC members jointly suggested.
Formulate the Regulations on the Protection of the Grand Canal in China and build a national demonstration section of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park in Jiangsu.
In 2022, the National People’s Congress is about to open. He Yunao, member of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and director of the Institute of Culture and Natural Heritage of Nanjing University, went to Beijing to attend the meeting. The two proposals he brought this time are related to the construction of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park. One of them is a joint proposal with Liu Jiayi, deputy director of the Culture, Literature, History and Learning Committee of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, proposing that relevant departments formulate the Regulations on the Protection of the Grand Canal in China and sum up and identify the demonstration section of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park. In another proposal, He Yunao, together with members Xin Cheng and Sun Libin, who live in Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, Jiangsu, proposed to build a national demonstration section of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park in Jiangsu. The scope of the demonstration section can be Huai ‘an — Yangzhou section, namely Huaiyang Canal section.
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It is suggested that the Regulations on the Protection of China’s Grand Canal be formulated to upgrade heritage protection to comprehensive protection.
Although the construction of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park has already started, the investigation is still going on. As a member of the National Cultural Park Construction Expert Advisory Committee, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui … … He Yunao ran a lot in the past year. From the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt to the construction of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park, He Yunao has been tracking research and making proposals every year when new problems are found.
One of his proposals this year is about further promoting the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt and the National Cultural Park. "The Grand Canal National Cultural Park has become a giant cultural corridor to protect cultural heritage, inherit excellent culture, display Chinese civilization, show cultural self-confidence, publicize the image of China and serve a better life in the new era." Through investigation, He Yunao found that China’s Grand Canal runs through many administrative regions of provinces and cities, with complex bearing functions and involving multiple interests. The investigation found that there are still some problems to be solved in the construction. In this regard, nine suggestions were made in one breath in the proposal, including further improving the organizational system of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt and the National Cultural Park; Intensify the archaeological work of the Grand Canal, and do in-depth cultural basic research and academic support for the Fine Grand Canal; Encourage society and people to actively participate in the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt and the National Cultural Park.
Let the grand canal, which has been flowing for thousands of years, fully recover its vitality. Protection and development are "two sides of one body". He Yunao suggested that in-depth investigation and study should be carried out on some sections of the Grand Canal that have lost navigation, so as to explore whether it can restore the shipping function and the possibility and feasibility of reviving the canal culture, and promote the organic integration of the protection and development of the Grand Canal for the benefit of the country and people.
The Grand Canal flows through eight provinces and municipalities directly under the Central Government, running through the north and south, and its inheritance and protection need a higher level of legislative promotion. "Promoting the construction of the rule of law will provide a high-level and high-quality guarantee for the protection and utilization of the Grand Canal culture." In this regard, the proposal suggests that relevant departments formulate the Regulations on the Protection of the Grand Canal in China, and carry out top-level design at the national level to upgrade the protection of the Grand Canal from a simple heritage protection to a comprehensive protection of the whole region.
The proposal also suggests that the demonstration section of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park be summarized and identified. The Grand Canal Cultural Belt involves eight provinces and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and its construction status is not balanced. It is suggested that the places that have made outstanding achievements in four main functional areas, namely, management and protection, theme display, cultural tourism integration and traditional utilization, and five key infrastructure projects, namely, coordinated promotion of cultural relics and cultural heritage protection and inheritance, systematic promotion of protection and inheritance, research and excavation, environmental support, cultural tourism integration and digital reproduction, should be identified as the demonstration section of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park, and be built along the Grand Canal and other national cultural parks.
It is suggested to build a national demonstration section of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park in Jiangsu.
It is concluded that Jiangsu has innate conditions and acquired advantages in the demonstration section of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park. "Jiangsu is an important cultural center in the Yangtze River and should strive to be the vanguard, demonstration area and demonstration province of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park." He Yunao also proposed the construction of a national demonstration section of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park in conjunction with the proposals of Xin Cheng and Sun Libin, members of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
The Jiangsu section of the Grand Canal runs through more than 790 kilometers from north to south, and has more than one third of the world cultural heritage resources. At the same time, it connects the Yangtze River urban agglomeration, the Jianghuai ecological economic zone and the Huaihai economic zone in series, radiates to the coastal economic zone, and connects with the national strategies such as the Yangtze River Economic Belt and the Yangtze River Delta integration, which occupies an extremely important position in China’s Grand Canal system. Jiangsu section of the Grand Canal is also the only key construction area of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park in China.
Jiangsu Province is the only province where 13 prefecture-level cities along the Grand Canal are all included in the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt and the national cultural park. It is the first to set up the Grand Canal Cultural Belt Construction Research Institute and set up the Grand Canal Cultural Tourism Fund with an initial scale of 20 billion yuan. It also issued the Decision on Promoting the Construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, which is the first local regulation in China to promote the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt. The Decision puts forward many rigid requirements in regulating and restricting the related behaviors of cultural protection, inheritance and utilization of the Grand Canal.
Huaiyang Canal section has the basic conditions to build a national demonstration section.
The proposal proposes to build a national demonstration section of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park in Jiangsu, covering Huai ‘an — Yangzhou section, namely Huaiyang Canal section. The Huaiyang Canal section is about 168.28 kilometers long, spanning two cities along the way, which is outstanding in reflecting the ancient and modern features of the canal, cultural characteristics, protection and utilization, water city symbiosis and so on.
For example, the world cultural heritage of the Grand Canal along the Huaiyang Canal section accounts for 60.7% of the Jiangsu section, and national key projects such as Qingkou Hub, Shao Bo Ancient Town and Hexia Ancient Town, Gu Han Gou Ruins, Li Canal Centralized Exhibition Belt, Banzha Ruins Park, Yangzhou China Grand Canal Museum and a large number of provincial key projects are laid out and constructed in this section. The freight channel in the river section is a second-class channel, which is one of the highest standard channels in the Grand Canal in China, and the annual freight throughput ranks first in all sections of the Grand Canal.
"On the whole, the Huaiyang Canal section is the most complete, rich in heritage, busiest in shipping and full of vitality in the whole Grand Canal, and has the basic conditions for building it into a national demonstration section." To this end, He Yunao suggested that the national demonstration section of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park (Huai ‘an — Yangzhou section) into the grand canal national cultural park construction and protection planning. Considering the synergy of the national demonstration section at the mechanism level and the systematicness, completeness and integration of the implementation level, it is suggested that the demonstration section should be included as a national key task in the Construction and Protection Plan of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park.
At the same time, it is suggested that the national demonstration section of the Grand Canal National Cultural Park (Huai ‘an — Yangzhou section) of the key projects as a whole into the national "14th Five-Year Plan" period of cultural protection and inheritance and utilization of national cultural park construction category, in the allocation of funds within the central budget to be a separate project, cut into pieces to support.
Wang Xiaofei, deputy to the National People’s Congress: It is suggested to build a "comb-shaped" canal channel and create a new channel for the northern section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to go to sea.
"Inland river shipping has the advantages of large volume per unit carrier, low logistics cost per unit mass and low energy consumption per unit volume. Developing inland river shipping, realizing river-sea connectivity and changing the mode of land transportation and freight transportation can reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated by transportation. " On March 3rd, Wang Xiaofei, a representative of the National People’s Congress from Dezhou, Shandong Province and a high-skilled coach of Hengfeng Group, suggested speeding up the construction of a "comb-shaped" river-sea connecting canal channel in Huanghuai Haihe River Basin, which is not only an important measure to reduce logistics energy consumption, but also an effective means to increase flood discharge capacity and improve flood control level, an important support to promote regional coordinated development, and also a transformation strategy required by the goal of "double carbon".
Wang Xiaofei said that at present, China’s logistics industry relies too much on road transportation, with road freight volume accounting for more than 75%, while waterway freight volume accounts for about 15%. Inland river shipping has the advantages that other modes of transportation do not have, such as less investment, large volume, less land occupation, low cost and good efficiency. For example, compared with highways, the construction of a 1 km four-lane expressway covers an average area of 100 mu, while the construction of inland waterway basically does not occupy land; On the plains and channelized rivers, the investment in inland waterway construction is only 1/7 of that of highways; The volume per horsepower of water transport is 50 times that of highway; The energy consumption per ton kilometer of water transportation is only 1/10 of that of highway and 1/2 of that of railway, and the comprehensive cost of inland water transportation is 1/7 of that of highway, which means that it can save over 80% of the cost.
Wang Xiaofei also said that the inland waterway construction conforms to the "16-character" water control idea of "water saving first, space balance, systematic management and two-handed efforts", which can not only expand the flood storage and discharge capacity of the river, but also help to speed up the improvement of the river basin flood control engineering system and solve the problems such as insufficient drainage channels and poor flood outlet. At the same time, inland river shipping, as a link between international and domestic markets, is the main force of foreign trade cargo transportation in river basin areas, which plays an important supporting role in opening up the sea passage, serving the strategy of maritime power, creating an economic corridor with strong innovation ability and accumulation effect, and accelerating the integration of regional economy into the international market.
Wang Xiaofei said that the southern section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal starts from Liangshan and ends in Hangzhou. This part of the freight volume in 2020 is equivalent to a quarter of the national railway freight volume, while most of the northern section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is not navigable and cannot enjoy the great value brought by water transportation. "Suggest the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal as ‘ Comb handle ’ , from north to south, first open four river-sea canal passages as ‘ Comb teeth ’ To build a new passage to the sea in the northern section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and build a logistics support system for the combined transport of public railways, rivers and seas. " She said.
In terms of specific planning, Wang Xiaofei introduced that in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the North Canal is used in the upper reaches, the Chaobai River is connected near Niumutun Village in Tongzhou District by Xinhe River in the middle, and Tianjin Port is connected by Chaobai Xinhe Waterway in the lower reaches. You can set up a port near Shagudui Village, Xiji Town, Tongzhou District, and realize the connection between water transport and highway through Jingha Expressway and Jingtang Road. The water transport distance is about 130 kilometers. Secondly, in Dezhou, Binzhou, Cangzhou and Huanghua areas, Zhangweixin River is a branch line of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, connecting Binzhou Port, with a water transportation distance of about 193 kilometers. In addition, in Jinan, Zibo, Dongying and Weifang, Xiaoqing River connects Weifang Port, with a water transportation distance of about 172 kilometers. Finally, in Xuzhou and Lianyungang, Lianyungang port is connected through the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and Xinyi River, with a water transportation distance of about 266 kilometers.
(Source: China News Network, Modern Express, and Lightning News)