Yangzhou promotes canal culture via intl macro film event

The Great Canal played an important role in Chinese history, transporting food and goods from South to North China and also promoting the administration and defense of China as a union, and strengthening economic and cultural exchanges between the North and the South. 

With a history of 2,500 years, Yangzhou used to be the richest and most prosperous city in ancient China, a major trade and transportation hub along the ancient Silk Road, and the biggest salt distribution center. 

Located at the intersection of the Grand Canal and the Yangtze River, the city holds a strategic position in the ancient waterway. 

Yangzhou government has always committed itself to protecting the Grand Canal. It contributed immensely to the work for the Grand Canal’s application for World Cultural Heritage. It also released Measures of Yangzhou City on Grand Canal Heritage Protection in 2015 which stipulates that the immovable historical relics of the Grand Canal should be certified according to the law and be confirmed to be the cultural-relics protection sites. The secretariat of World Historic and Cultural Canal Cities Cooperation Organization is based in Yangzhou.

A reporter from Ecuador asks questions at the news press for the First Canal Theme International Macro Film Festival on Feb 3 at the China National Convention Center in Beijing. [Photo/yznews.com.cn]

The Yangzhou section of the Grand Canal is the oldest part of the waterway. [Photo/Chinanews.com]