Speech at the 2018 World Canal Cities Forum

• 作者: An Kerui Qian Hongshan
• 来源期刊: 国际交流:英文版
• 学科: 政治法律
• 关键词: CANAL CITIES FORUM
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（4）
• 页码范围: 24-25
• 页数: 2页
• 分类号: D

摘要

On October 12th,the 2018 World Canal Cities Forum was held in Yangzhou,taking the "protection,inheritance and use of canal cities’ cultures" as its theme.Mr.Zheng Jianbang,Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference,Mr.Wang Jiarui,former Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference and Chairman of the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation,Mr.Lou Qinjian,Party Secretary of CPC Provincial Committee of Jiangsu,Mr.Qian Hongshan,Vice Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee,Mr.Zhou Wenzhong,WCCO Chief Adviser and former Secretary-General of the Boao Forum for Asia,Mr.Brian Cowen,former Irish Prime Minister,and Mr.Shi Kefang,the Panamanian Ambassador to China attended and addressed the Forum.The 2018 World Canal Cities Forum was co-hosted by the World Canal Historical and Cultural Cities CooperationOrganization(WCCO)and the China Pacific Economic Cooperation National Committee(CNCPEC).More than 300 representatives from more than 30 countries and over 20 international organizations including the United Nations Environment Program and Inland Waterways International gathered at the riverside of China’s Grand Canal.Through extensive and in-depth dialogues,they sorted out practical solutions for issues facing world canals and explored ways of canal protection and development,in the hope of achieving sustainable development of the canal.The forum this year consists of one main forum and four sub-forums (World Canal Cities Museum Directors Forum,World Canal Cities Ecological Construction Forum,World Canal Cities Cultural Tourism Cooperation Forum,World Canal Cities Canal Legislative Protection Forum).Attendees demonstrated Jiangsu’s practice in the protection,inheritance and use of the Grand Canal,shared experience in protecting canal culture,exchanged global cases of canal cities development,and therefore contributed to the protection,inheritance and use of world canal cultural heritag