Hello, Mayor Fan, today we are talking about the topic of "building a new image of the Canal City and showing a new style of the Canal City". Our Huai'an positioning into the "Canal City", at first in what kind of a background?
Fan Jinlong: I think it is still in the Chinese "Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal" to start our topic to discuss. Recently, we all know that our country is going to declare the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal as a World Heritage Site. I should say that this news is good news for all Chinese people, because the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the crystallization and symbol of the wisdom of the Chinese people for thousands of years.
At the same time, a Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is carrying our Chinese nation's splendor of a few years ago, so the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the Grand Canal of China in the country, the whole world in the hearts of the people have a great recognition. Look at the entire previous history of China's ancient civilization, from a certain point of view, is to look at our China's Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. With the development of human history, she entered several stages, one of which should be, the canal is mainly various countries are in the limited premise of science and technology at that time, she is in a country within the scope of a nation closed to a state of development.
So for example, in China, we know that the Sui Dynasty connected the waterways of the north and south, and there was really a Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in our present sense. Then at that time she had to connect this waterway to become a transportation channel on the water, the premise is that the country is closed.
Then within a country's dominion, she was subject to the limitations of the internal transportation conditions, so that she could only rely on the waterway as the main channel. In that era we degree a is the era of canal civilization, canal civilization is every country, every nation development is through a particular stage. Then as our China, the same is true, and again we have this bear us a few years of Chinese human civilization history of the canal, we should say that so far, our country our people have it very well protected, as the cultural heritage of mankind to preserve, and now to prepare for the declaration of the world cultural heritage.
I think this good news is a kind of encouragement and infection for all of us Chinese, so what is the relationship between Huai'an and this canal?
Fan Jinlong: It should be said that our canal is 1,200 kilometers long, which is 1,200 kilometers from ancient times to the present, there are dozens of cities on both sides of the canal rise and fall, and these cities, in the development of the history of civilization of the canal have assumed a different responsibility, play a different role.
For example, there are three famous cities in Jiangsu province along the canal, Suzhou, Yangzhou, Huai'an, plus Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, historically known as the "Canal along the four big Mingdu". So Huaian's particularity in the 1,200 kilometers along the canal, her particularity in where?
From the historical data, we can see that she not only has the natural geographic specificity. She happened to be in the middle of one thousand two hundred kilometers of the canal, her main speciality is that she was in the social society at that time, economically, militarily and politically have a very special position. For example, we say she in the economic position, because before I just said the canal is as an inland civilization era of a country between different regions of the main transport channel, so in ancient times, especially in the Ming and Qing dynasties, she is especially the Yangtze River on both sides of the Yangtze River, which is adopted out of the materials, including food and other kinds of materials, it is to be transported to the northern part of China to go to the exchange of materials.
So because Huai'an this place just as I just said, its geographical position in the middle, Huai'an and we know is the Chinese weather north-south demarcation line, at the same time is the eastern part of China's geographic position on the north-south demarcation. The line is the Yellow River to the north and the Yangtze River to the south.
Fan Jinlong: so between the two major rivers of a river, so I say so a specific geographical position, her economic position later in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the government paid special attention to, that is to say, all the materials in the south to the north cloud, in this part of China, the imperial court set up a number of economic management institutions, we now know that called for the establishment of a general management of the canal through Yamen After this to be located in Huaian, she is specifically responsible for the inspection of these materials to the north of the south, and then is to pay the tax, only through this inspection, after paying the tax to the north to the court, so its economic status, that is to say, because of its natural geographic position, so it is decided in the north and south of Huaian should be said to be the central north-south border in our country, so it is the economic status of the community, so her economic status is determined by the community, so her economic status is decided by the community. So her economic status determines the status of what we now call the "Canal Capital",
Fan Jinlong: So at one time period because of the whole commercial trade between the south and the north in this place is very generalized, we later Huaian city is also known as the "four great capitals!
The city of Huai'an is also known as the "Four Great Cities", with Yangzhou and Suzhou, her function is ultimately more applicable in these areas, in the government's management of the canal's economic function of her position is very large.
Jiangsu: Now with the development of the times, we know that the status of the river transportation is equivalent to the railroad transportation, its position is more and more clear, we will be the current era of Huai'an positioning into the "Canal Capital" is in the economic considerations or in the tourism considerations?
Fan Jinlong: I think these two considerations should be said that we have, from a cultural point of view, I just said that the canal is a symbol of the Chinese people's hard work and wisdom and is also a symbol of China's thousands of years of splendid culture and is also the cultural lineage of our city of Huai'an. We Huai'an now say we are in the north of Jiangsu Province, meaning that the economy is relatively underdeveloped, we call our Jiangsu Province, "after the development of the region", we are after the development of the region, I've been using this concept, I think that the north of Jiangsu Province, or there are still opportunities for the development of the latter, because the development of the first and the latter, mainly by the limitations of the resources, by the limitations of the market. The first is the development of the market, and the second is the development of the market.
Likewise, we say, we Huai'an also have a glorious history of a thousand years, that glorious history from today, from the Han Dynasty, when the Han Dynasty began that time is the era of the agricultural economy, mainly relying on the natural economic conditions, so that there was a Huai River. We Huai'an also known as "Huaiyin", Huai'an means Huai Shui An Lai, Huai character on the side of the three water on behalf of a water, the other half of the press is what it is, read "chase", the explanation is a beautiful short-tailed bird.
Then this beautiful short-tailed bird and the water are connected together, which constitutes the special of this river, because it is very beautiful, because she is a natural river.
She originates in the lower reaches of our Yangtze River and irrigates an area of 160,000 square kilometers. That's why there used to be a saying in ancient times, "It's better to walk a thousand miles than to walk along the banks of the Huai River," and that was in the Han Dynasty era.
Fan Jinlong: Later, with the development of history step by step, we here is also known as the "five Chu" confluence, we Han River, Generali, that is, at that time, Wu was ready to expand to the north, so all the way to the repair of a waterway called Generali.
The canal is so a section of a section, until the Sui Dynasty to connect her, so now we are talking about the relationship between the canal and our Huai'an, our Huai'an is with the communication of this canal, from a natural river gradually became a national economic artery, due to bring Huai'an's prosperity and so that our canal is the cultural veins of Huai'an, we are now Huai'an, the planning of the Canal Cultural Corridor.
The city of Huai'an is very interesting, it has four rivers running through the city, which we call the city floating on water, and one of them is the canal that is no longer navigable, which we call the "Li Canal". The canal, which is no longer navigable, runs 32.5 kilometers from the town of Huaiyin Dock in the north to the prime minister's hometown in the south, and is now home to a lot of history and culture.
We are now planning a "nine scenic spots" on the basis of 32.5 kilometers, that is to say, more than 2,000 years because of the Huai'an this place from the Qin Dynasty began to build, up to now it should be more than 2,200 years of history, so we are now in the planning of the cultural corridor of the Ri Canal, for the nine scenic spots to put the 2200 years of historical and cultural heritage, we have to be re-developed to protect the cultural heritage to be organized, is on the one hand the responsibility of our contemporary people.
Fan Jinlong: On the other hand, this is also our contemporary people can feel our ancestors are how amazing, created so brilliant culture, so brilliant results! We say that the development of science and technology should create more brilliant achievements than our ancestors, in order to be worthy of our ancestors.
So we say that the provincial government proposed to "revitalize the north of Jiangsu", then "revitalize" two words for Huai'an is very appropriate, you have to say revitalization, must have been brilliant to revitalize the revitalization of the north of Jiangsu to revitalize Huai'an, we have to revitalize the millennium of glory, which is from the cultural point of view. The first thing you need to do is to consider this from a cultural point of view.
So another perspective, we say the future, in the future development, how can we make our Huai'an people can make our Jiangsu's northern Jiangsu can develop faster, in this new century, in the creation of opportunities for development in front of the eyes of the opportunity to seize the opportunity to accelerate our development, to achieve our well-off, and then further accelerate the pace of our modernization. The first step in the modernization of the country is the development of the country's economy.
So I think that's why we're looking at the "Canal City" issue, because we're thinking about the future of economic development. Because our current social system is a market economy, market economy is the biggest feature of competition, market economy in the competitive characteristics of the biggest one is the limited nature of resources, the scarcity of resources and the market is limited, we believe that the future development, who has the ability to integrate resources, you have the ability to open up the market, so we look at the development of the city, which is to take advantage of some of the advantages of the conditions of the city, to concentrate resources outside of the city, to the city of the city. So we look at the development, it is because of the use of some of its advantages, in the city of the outside of the resources, concentrated in this city, so we are now in Huai'an, currently we are also studying, we have to accelerate the development of not only our Jiangsu Province, we have what advantages of the place to make us outside of Huai'an outside the world can come to know Huai'an? The ability to understand Huaian, so as to generate investment in Huaian this kind of confidence?
Fan Jinlong: Then we say the other way around, to make the world's investors want to invest in Huai'an, our development will be faster, but how to make them come to invest? First of all, let them know Huai'an, because now, to be honest, Huai'an in the country's popularity is not high, in the world's popularity is even more to talk about, may understand Huai'an even less people. Then we want to understand that not many people in Huai'an, but understand China's Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is still a lot of people, we say, Huai'an's historical position, objectively she has the "Canal Capital" this kind of status.
I think once people understand the Grand Canal and then further in-depth understanding of the canal, because the canal is so long, you can not run out, you must be able to focus on the reflection of the canal place. I think as people around the world to understand the depth of the canal to promote, will certainly understand the "canal capital", will certainly understand the Huai'an.
I think our academic research experts on China's canals, we all came to focus on Huai'an to discuss the "Canal Capital", not only is of great significance, I feel that the local Huai'an to improve the visibility in China, and even the world I think it is very meaningful. As our local government, we also very much hope that through this academic recognition of China's "Canal Capital" as a business card of our ancient city of Huai'an, so that people can further deepen their understanding of the people they know, so that people who do not know the people who are interested in coming to Huai'an to be a friend, let's have a chat, and then continue to talk about it when we are interested in it, so as to bring our future development. bring our future development.
Jiangsu: You just said, the future of Huai'an as a manifestation of the Grand Canal, in fact, this concept I think should be a relatively large concept, so long north and south, with this place to reflect the culture of the entire Grand Canal, our municipal party committee, the municipal government has what initiatives to support this activity?
Fan Jinlong: think we have three specific initiatives. First, we put the Grand Canal a few years left behind the cultural heritage we protect, repair, for example, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were two very important Yamen, one is called "CaoYun Governor, a called River Governor, then the CaoYun Governor is specifically responsible for the transportation, and that the southern grain and other resources to the north, the River Governor is specifically responsible for the transportation of rivers, the CaoYun Governor is responsible for the transportation of rivers, the River Governor is specifically responsible for the transportation of the river, the River Governor is specifically responsible for the transportation of the river, the River Governor is specifically responsible for the transportation of the river. responsible for transporting rivers, and the Cao Yun Governor's House has now been damaged to a certain extent because of the war.
We are now only preserving some of the CaoYuanGongHui their ruins, we are ready to be properly protected and restored, you talk about the river governor's mansion, now preserved a complete garden, we are now called ... garden. Historical and cultural sites, we want to protect it, repair and development and utilization, this is one point.
The second specific point we want to prepare to build a museum of the Grand Canal of China, that is to say, we have this idea, we also hope to be able to get the participation and support of all the cities along the canal, to get the support of the higher authorities and even the central government departments, to be able to build a large museum to display our Chinese canals in the place of the "Canal Capital". A large museum to display the culture of the era of Chinese canal civilization.
The third initiative is that we want to use now in the city over, no longer as a navigable section of this canal, more than 30 kilometers long this section, we open it into a tourist route, because this route, there are a lot of cultural heritage, we are now planning a "nine scenic spots", then we envisage spending Five years in the "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" period, through our efforts, through our development, to be able to inculcate it, so that friends develop, from more than 30 kilometers of the canal, it has to be able to understand the development of the canal era, so we now have at least three specific initiatives, we will discuss.
Jiangsu network: the mayor showed the determination of the municipal government, we know that the development of tourism is not only hardware things, there is also a sense of their welcome, there are netizens reflecting them as outsiders to Huai'an, they basically can not find a Huai'an a tour guide map in the whole city or, tour map or, shows that the city simply do not have the awareness of outsiders to visit, we also know that during the May 1 period, the number of our tourists. We also know that the number of tourists in Huai'an everyone, I think I would like to ask the mayor, how on the one hand our government in the software, the people's awareness of what will be some of the initiatives of the things.
Fan Jinlong: This is a very good question, first of all, to thank the majority of netizens on our attention to Huaian, including the concern of our government work, indeed, in the tourism and service, although we have done a lot of work, but there are still many unsatisfactory places, I think we have to reflect with the netizens of an opinion one to solve,
Fan Jinlong: for example, the most simple, map, these things are the most minimal, the most important thing is that they are not the most important thing is that we do not know what we do.
Fan Jinlong: for example, the simplest, map, these things are the minimum, then our Huaian tourism, I should say that these years in the relevant supporting services in some of the business has done a lot of work, so we last year was named "China's excellent tourist city" one, then this shows that we have done a little bit of work, was named excellent tourist city, that should be a new starting point to do better, so we are now no matter what we do, we have to do better. Do better, so we are now whether in the construction of attractions, or in our related services, I should say that in all aspects of the positive work, so that tourists come to Huai'an, can have a sense of beauty to enjoy.
In the process of enjoyment, they can understand the human history of Huai'an, enjoy the natural scenery of Huai'an, and at the same time, they can also savor the unique cuisine of Huai'an. There are two new dishes in our Huai'an cuisine, which is now a national civilization, namely, the short time lobster, which is our new dish, and our pot stickers, which is very famous in the country.
So I think the concept of service is actually a psychological satisfaction of human beings, it is more complex than the manufacture of goods, goods are tangible things, service is no standard. Service is a kind of personalized title, which requires us in the service, can be through the entire city to improve the awareness of all citizens within the various institutions, the quality of each service facility, only so to improve the quality of the whole population, improve the quality of all the service institutions, in order to make the tourists to all aspects of the even to ask for directions to be able to get a satisfactory answer. So I think in terms of service, we do have some problems now.
Host: I would like to ask the mayor, Huai'an is a post-development area, so we are on the one hand playing a tourist sign, while in this tourist sign in our entire industrial pattern what is the impact? Including what kind of new initiatives we have in terms of independent innovation in industry?
Fan Jinlong: Huaian is in the north of Huai'an, the north of Jiangsu means that the economy is relatively underdeveloped, from this point of view, the state of our economic development, such as the economic structure, the ability to produce products, are relatively backward, so we are now from the law of economic development, we are now in the early stages of industrialization in Huai'an, and is the rapid development of the rise of the period, we should have our development trend is a very good, and a very fast period.
Then this economic development, it is from two aspects:
One is the external factors, one is the internal factors, first of all, the external factors, the world is divided into one, two, three world. Our country is divided into east, west and east and our Jiangsu province is divided into south, north and south, indicating that the distribution of the uneven, resulting in the development of an imbalance, there is a gradient of development, and now the coastal economic reform and opening up for more than 20 years, it has accumulated quite a certain foundation, at the same time, we are now the economy is now the world's economic integration, so we are now appearing in the transfer of the economic gradient has been clearly reflected in the south of the Suzhou economy has been in a relatively upgrading stage. Economy has been in a relatively elevated stage, the development of its economy is more in a structural adjustment, as we say that the economic growth mode is to rely on science and technology, then relative to our northern Jiangsu, then the stage of economic development, its economic structure, it is not possible to be compared with the southern Jiangsu, we say that our development now determines our development, first of all, to achieve a from scratch, to achieve a quantity of The expansion of the
Most people in Jiangsu know that the north of Jiangsu means agriculture, the north of Jiangsu means the countryside, so we are in such a stage, but in such a stage, we say that is for our main industrial structure, there may be more constraints on the development of the north and south of the cicadas industrial perspective in general, the first end of the transfer of industry in the south of Jiangsu, but in this situation, we have always believed that does not rule out the possibility of the south of Jiangsu. Or to some extent we should pay more attention to relying on scientific and technological progress to accelerate our development, because only in this way can narrow the gap with the south of Jiangsu, otherwise you will always be following the back of others, the people out of the you have to, you yourself are sad ah!
Fan Jinlong: But to the economic development we said, such as the investor issue, we said both vertical and horizontal type, the so-called vertical type is the transfer of high-cost of Southern Jiangsu to the north of Jiangsu, this is the vertical type, at the same time, we also want to pursue a horizontal type of transfer, that is to say, we are in some aspects we have to be the same as the Southern Jiangsu. Also to undertake some of the transfer of the world, for example, we Huai'an in the resources of an advantage, underground ancestors left us a lot of salt resources, we know that salt from life, production is one of the most basic industrial raw materials, our government planning to build a "Salt Park", the Salt Park built with the world's synchronized product production base. The government is planning to build a "salinization park", which will be a production base synchronized with the world's products. Then in these areas we will be able to realize the realization of our industrial structure, to achieve our own innovation.
So I think it should be said that for our post-development areas, first of all, you have to bear this economic structure, to be from scratch, and secondly, we should proactively look for their own advantages, through the latest use of science and technology, to be able to catch up with the first development of the region, I think that these two steps are to be taken.
Jiangsu: Mayor you just said that the north and south to revitalize, netizens also reflect and cultural things should not just be a signboard, more should be people-oriented, mentioned a phenomenon, we Huai'an's Grand Canal Plaza is located in a very beautiful. But it has no flowers and no water, as a place for citizens to relax and cool off, is there any independent space? Just want to ask the mayor, after the development of our city's culture how with the people's things, how to then better combined?
Fan Jinlong: This in the future development of our central government put forward a very clear development program, is to scientific development, to harmonious development, from the economic and cultural point of view, the same, then as our local government, is always in the implementation of such a development concept.
In fact, the economy and culture are always synchronized, only the form of expression and people can accept this form may not be the same perception.
For example, Huai'an has a relatively developed economy. But it is in the education, is very important, we Huaian people have a saying is "no more poor can not be poor children", can not affect the learning, and then bitter would rather begging for food but also to let their children go to school.
I think the concept of this culture, Huai'an people are very leading, for example, so many of our own children went out to study, and now a great part of them do not return to Huai'an, because we cultivate a person he is for the country to cultivate, for the development of other places. We are no longer pursuing our own personal interests, so I think this cultural outlook is very strong among the people of Huai'an, relying on education to improve the quality of the next generation to seek their own development. If we look at the surface, our cultural facilities in Huai'an are not as good as those in developed cities, because these external cultural facilities it is necessary to support the economy, it is necessary to invest in people.
And we have a lot of mass cultural activities that don't require so much investment, that is to say, activities that don't require money, and we have a lot of them in this regard. For example, we have a big square, so how come there are no trees in the square? But my opinion is to say that you can't look at things just one specific thing.
I personally believe that we should look at the overall scope of a city, look at the function of the city square, if this function is a cool function, it should also have trees; if it is a mass gathering, it should not have trees, of course, also hope that every place, every square, every street corner, in all aspects can be perfect, this proposal is very good, we should adopt, I want to express the meaning of a city's spatial form. I want to express the meaning of a city's spatial form of the layout it is a holistic, it is all kinds of facilities is also a holistic, the construction of the order before and after the ability to show the display to the people to see, especially the impact of the economic factors is also a continuity of the.
So friends of our Huai'an concern, I think it is good for us, we will redouble our efforts to build this city better, so that more friends to come here.
Fan Jinlong: this in the future development of our central government put forward a very clear development program, is to scientific development, to the harmonious development, from the economic and cultural point of view, the same, then as our local government, but also always in the implementation of such a development concept.
In fact, the economy and culture are always synchronized, only the form of expression and people can accept this form may not be the same perception. For example, Huaian has a relatively developed economy. But it is in education, is very important, we Huaian people have a saying is "no more poor can not be poor children", can not affect the study, even more bitter would rather begging for food but also to let their children go to school.
I think the concept of this culture, Huai'an people are very leading, for example, so many of our own children went out to study, and now a great part of them do not return to Huai'an, because we cultivate a person he is for the country to cultivate, for the development of other places. We are no longer pursuing our own personal interests, so I think this cultural outlook is very strong among the people of Huai'an, relying on education to improve the quality of the next generation to seek their own development. If we look at the surface, our cultural facilities in Huai'an are not as good as those in developed cities, because these external cultural facilities it is necessary to support the economy, it is necessary to invest in people.
And we have a lot of mass cultural activities that don't require so much investment, that is to say, activities that don't require money, and we have a lot of them in this regard. For example, we have a big square, so how come there are no trees in the square? But my opinion is to say that you can't look at things just one specific thing. I personally believe that we should look at the overall scope of a city, look at the function of the city square, if this function is a cool function, it should also have trees; if it is a mass gathering, it should not have trees, of course, also hope that every place, every square, every street, all aspects can be perfect, this proposal is very good, we should be adopted, I would like to express the meaning of an I would like to express the meaning of a city's spatial form of the layout it is a holistic, it is all kinds of facilities is also a holistic, before and after the construction of the order can be demonstrated to show people, especially the impact of economic factors is also a continuity. So friends of our concern for Huai'an, I think it is good for us, we will redouble our efforts to build this city better, so that more friends to come here.