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Replicating the prosperity and glory of the millennium canal and inheriting the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation

On June 30th, 2012, "Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Cultural Journey" was jointly hosted by Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Culture Promotion Association (Preparatory Committee), CCTV4 Walking Across China, Taihe Group, and Zhonghe Renshen, and co-hosted by member units Yuanmaoxiang, Xiong's Enamel, and Shenglian Sheng. "The launching ceremony of the large-scale documentary was successfully held at Li Palace, a courtyard on the bank of the canal.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Cultural Promotion Association (Preparatory Committee) is a public welfare social organization voluntarily formed by a group of government leaders, overseas Chinese, experts and scholars from all walks of life, artists, and national enterprises who are enthusiastic about the culture of the Canal, with the aim of "tapping the historical value of the Canal, and inheriting the thousand-year culture of the Canal". The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Culture Promotion Association (Preparatory Committee) specially invites the guests of the launch ceremony: Yue Songdong, Deputy Director General of Development Research Center of the State Council; Lu Dyun, Editor-in-Chief of CCTV4 "Going Through China"; Shen Linan, Assistant President, Brand Director of Taihe Group; Jin Yuelin, Secretary General of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Culture Promotion Association (Preparatory Committee), Chairman of Zhonghe Renshen; Zhang Yuxu, China's top collector; Qu Zhe, Chairman of Bank of America Merrill Lynch Hong Kong (Holdings); and Tianzhi Investment Chairman, and Chairman of Tianzhi Investment. Mr. Qu Zhe, Chairman of Tianzhi Investment, served as HSBCMD&ViceChairman, Ernst & Young, Deloitte Partner, the 10th generation of Rongbaozhai, Mr. Zhang Xinxin, President of Beijing Jusheng Peking Opera Society, the 11th National People's Congress, the Standing Committee of the CPPCC Cangzhou Municipal Committee, and the Vice President of Hebei Foreign Economic Relations Association. Yin Guangjun, Professor of Academy of Arts and Crafts of Tsinghua University, Director of the Department of Arts and Crafts Lin Lesheng, Xiong Songtao, the third generation of Xiong's enameling, Executive Director of the International Bu'er Tea Smoke Society, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chaumi Group Wuyi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yuanmaoxiang Cao Jiaxiang, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Shengliansheng Chen Yanni, Li Jun of the China General Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Rose Valley Wine Group Guan Xinyi, Chief Designer of Yuanmaoxiang Cao Diming, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Tianying Investment Company Ma Jian, Director of the Hong Kong More than 30 guests attended the event, including Guo Fuxuan, director of Carbo Group.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was first cut in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and was completed through the Sui and Yuan Dynasties, starting from Beijing in the north and ending in Hangzhou in the south, with a total length of 1,794 kilometers, which is 16 times longer than that of the Suez Canal, and 33 times longer than that of the Panama Canal, and is one of the world's longest, longest and largest canals, and is known as one of the two great works of ancient China, along with the Great Wall of China as a symbol of the nation's culture, status and identity. two great projects of ancient China, famous all over the world. In the course of more than two thousand years of history, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has made very important contributions to China's economic development, national unity, social progress and cultural prosperity.

The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is a great project created by the ancient Chinese working people, a precious material and spiritual wealth left to us by our ancestors, and a living, flowing and important human heritage. Because of years of disrepair, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal's historical and cultural relics, scenery and natural ecological environment is inevitably being destroyed, and then do not strengthen the protection of this ancient canal in China's map has flowed for 2,500 years, and one day its integrity and splendor will really become history, which for the Chinese nation will be an irreparable loss, how to the Canal scientific and targeted How to protect the Grand Canal scientifically and purposefully and how to realize its sustainable development has become an urgent problem to be solved.

Since March 2006, 58 members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) jointly submitted a proposal to the Fourth Session of the Tenth National Committee of the CPPCC calling for a strategic start to the rescue and protection of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and the declaration of a world heritage project at an appropriate time, and as of April 2011, the bidding for the inscription of the Grand Canal has entered the countdown - - Beijing, along the route of the Grand Canal, is a major city in China. -The Grand Canal heritage of 35 cities in 8 provinces, including Beijing and Henan, along the Grand Canal will be nominated as a whole as a World Heritage Site and strive to be inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2014. On the occasion of the inscription of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal Culture Promotion Committee (Preparatory Committee) and CCTV4 Traveling Through China will jointly produce a large-scale documentary series entitled "Journey through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal", which is aimed at letting more people understand the history, natural scenery, humanistic art, environmental protection and national culture of the canal from an all-rounded and multi-angled perspective. The whole world will come together to witness the infinite charm of this ancient canal.