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BEIJING, Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

The 2020 World Canal Cities Forum kicked off on Monday in Yangzhou, east

China's Jiangsu Province.

Themed on sustainable prosperity and development of cultural tourism industry

of world canal cities, the forum aimed to exchange and showcase the successful

practice and advanced experience of the world canal culture and provided useful

references for the development of the world's canal cities and canal culture.

500 officials, experts and scholars from home and abroad discussed the topic of

how the cultural tourism industry of canal cities can continue to achieve

long-term, prosperous development, and reached broad consensus at the forum.

The protection, inheritance and utilization of the Grand Canal culture is in

the best period of history, as China has ramped up efforts to push forward the

fine protection of the Grand Canal and has issued a plan on the construction of

national culture parks for the Grand Canal, Liu Qibao, vice-chairperson of the

13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative

Conference (CPPCC), said at the forum.

Wu Zhenglong, governor of Jiangsu Province, noted that Jiangsu will strive to

promote the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt and build the Jiangsu

section of the Grand Canal into a culture business card for the province.

A variety of activities, such as the 2020 Canal Carnival and the 2020 World

Canal Cities Food Expo, were also staged during the event in a bid to further

demonstrate the cultural charm and show great vitality of the Grand Canal.

Founded in 2007, the annual World Canal Cities Forum has become a well-known

platform for boosting cooperation among canal cities and promoting heritage protection,

tourism development, environmental governance, urban construction, protection of

the Grand Canal, and economic and cultural exchange among canal cities.

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SOURCE  Xinhua Silk Road Information Service

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