Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Zhuang.
In the Spring Festival of the Year of the Dragon, the White Emperor City Qutang Gorge Scenic Area in Fengjie County, Chongqing City is full of tourists. Overlooking Qutang Gorge, the river is meandering and the high gorge is magnificent. When night fell, the large-scale cultural live performance "Return to the Three Gorges" was staged at the mouth of Qutang Gorge, which made ** forget to return.
At the end of 2021, the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park will be launched. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has taken the lead in establishing a working mechanism, making the systematic protection of cultural heritage the primary task of the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park, formulating relevant construction and protection implementation plans and plans, and guiding relevant provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) to prepare provincial plans. Chongqing has clarified that the construction scope of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park (Chongqing Section) is the whole area of Chongqing, and has systematically sorted out 330 brand resources such as the city's world cultural heritage, world natural heritage, national 5A-level tourist attractions, national tourist resorts, and national intangible cultural heritage representative projects, and actively developed the cultural and tourism industry, vividly presenting the unique creation, value concept and distinctive characteristics of the Yangtze River culture.
The changes in the mother river are seen and remembered by Ran Ran, a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress and chairman of the Chongqing Writers Association. During the research, she learned that the construction of a national cultural park has no precedent in the world and is a groundbreaking feat. In order to build this basin-wide, overall and national cultural project, during the first session of the 14th National People's Congress in 2023, Ran Ran and six other representatives of the National People's Congress submitted a proposal on the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park, and put forward specific suggestions from ten aspects, including carrying out the Yangtze River cultural inheritance and innovation project, strengthening ecological and environmental protection, building a public cultural carrier, and promoting the innovation of the system and mechanism of cultural and tourism development.
The construction of national cultural parks has been the concern of many deputies and members of the National People's Congress and the National People's Congress in recent years. According to the statistics of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, from 2020 to 2023, the Department of Resource Development handled nearly 150 proposals related to national cultural parks.
After receiving the suggestions of Ran Ran and others, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism attached great importance to it. In order to implement the suggestions in detail, in June 2023, the General Office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Department of Resource Development arranged staff to go to Chongqing to invite Ran Ran and other representatives to conduct special research and organize a symposium to promote the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park and put forward suggestions and ideas.
The Working Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism attach great importance to the suggestions of the deputies, and have set up several WeChat groups for me and the other six deputies to contact the work, so as to report the progress of the relevant work in a timely manner, collect opinions and suggestions, and absorb and apply them to the work. Ran Ran said.
According to reports, in response to the concerns of the delegates about strengthening the top-level design of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park, in March 2022, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, together with relevant departments, organized a first-class scheduling meeting for the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park; In July 2023, together with relevant departments, the "Plan for the Protection, Inheritance and Promotion of Yangtze River Culture" will be issued, and the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park will be fully connected with the territorial and spatial planning. On the basis of the investigation, in October 2023, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism took the lead in organizing and convening the Yangtze River National Cultural Park Construction Promotion Conference.
In order to effectively protect the ecological environment in the process of construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism has guided local governments to establish a correct orientation, adhere to the concept of "joint efforts to protect and not engage in large-scale development", promote the rational and efficient use of resources, ensure ecological security, and avoid problems such as over-development, over-commercialization, homogenization and ecological damage; In conjunction with relevant departments, establish a cooperative working mechanism for management and protection, strengthen joint prevention and control of the upstream and downstream, left and right banks, and main and tributaries of the Yangtze River Basin, and promote the stable improvement of the quality of the water ecological environment in the Yangtze River Basin.
How to display the Yangtze River culture and make the Yangtze River National Cultural Park better integrate into life and benefit the masses? The Ministry of Culture and Tourism has actively promoted the establishment of the Yangtze River Group of the National Cultural Park Expert Advisory Committee, and encouraged scientific research institutes and colleges and universities to carry out research on the Yangtze River culture; Continue to promote major projects such as the research on the process of Bashu civilization in the Sichuan-Chongqing region of "Archaeological China"; It also cooperated with the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television to successively produce and broadcast a number of Yangtze River-themed documentaries such as "Liangzhu Civilization" and "Shennongjia Code", which achieved good social repercussions.
With the cultural plastic brigade, with the brigade to highlight the culture. According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, in recent years, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, together with relevant departments, has continued to promote the deep integration and high-quality development of culture and tourism along the Yangtze River: guiding the Baidi City Qutangxia Scenic Area in Fengjie County, Chongqing to successfully create a national 5A-level tourist attraction; guide the Ciqikou block of Shapingba District of Chongqing to successfully create a national tourism and leisure block; Launched 10 Yangtze River-themed national tourism routes.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said that in the next step, it is necessary to adhere to the priority of protection, strengthen the inheritance, cultural guidance, highlight the characteristics, overall design, overall planning, active and prudent, reform and innovation, adapt measures to local conditions, classified guidance, build a good foundation, and use the six principles to build the Yangtze River National Cultural Park into a historical and cultural corridor that inherits Chinese civilization, a common spiritual home that unites China's strength, a cultural and tourism experience space that improves the quality of life of the people, and a beautiful business card that shows China's image.