We will stay firmly rooted in Chinese culture. We will collect and refine the defining symbols and best elements of Chinese culture and showcase them to the world. We will accelerate the development of China’s discourse and narrative systems, better tell China’s stories, make China’s voice heard, and present a China that is credible, appealing, and respectable.
Leadership Insights | Illustrated Lectures: The Grand Canal: A River Transport Corridor
发布时间：2024-12-02 13:24:26 | 来源：中国网 | 作者：中国习观 | 责任编辑：张芃芃Over centuries, the Grand Canal has nurtured cities and people on both banks, brining wealth and happiness. It is hoped that all parties will work together to protect the Grand Canal, enabling it to benefit the people forever.
The Grand Canal runs nearly 3,200 kilometers through provinces and municipalities including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui, making it the longest man-made river in the world. The Grand Canal connects northern and southern China and preserves ancient cultural heritage to this day. Across more than 2,500 years, it has carried the flowing culture of the Chinese nation. In 2014, the Grand Canal was inscribed on the World Cultural Heritage List, becoming the 46th World Heritage site in China.
The China Grand Canal Museum, located in Yangzhou Canal Sanwan Ecological and Cultural Park, is the first “encyclopedic theme museum in China that comprehensively displays the history, culture, ecology, and science and technology of the Grand Canal. The exhibitions in the museum take the development and changes of the Grand Canal as the timeline and the whole basin of the Grand Canal as the spatial scope, and carry themes such as “The Grand Canal – A World Cultural Heritage Site in China”, “Boats on the Canal” and “Born from the Canal – Impression of Streets and Markets along the Grand Canal”. Those exhibitions allow visitors to understand the protection and utilization of canal cultural relics, the conservation and inheritance of canal heritage, the construction of the canal cultural park, and the development of the Grand Canal cultural belt through vivid and interactive exhibits.
The Grand Canal has flown for centuries and retained the millennia-old Chinese culture. As one of China’s important linear cultural heritage sites, the Grand Canal records the traces of the past and points to the direction of the future. The ancient canal is writing a new chapter of the uninterrupted Chinese civilization.