The Jiangsu section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal runs through 687 kilometers north and south of Jiangsu, and more than 20,000 ships travel through it all year round, which plays a significant role in the construction of my country's comprehensive transportation system and the ec

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Beijing-Hangzhou Canal , this long historical scroll that inherits the past and the present is a historical witness to the achievements of ancient transportation civilization and the achievements of modern inland shipping. The Jiangsu section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal runs through 687 kilometers north and south of Jiangsu, and more than 20,000 ships travel through it all year round, which plays a significant role in the construction of my country's comprehensive transportation system and the economic and social development of the Yangtze River Delta region. In recent years, with the deepening of the construction of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal Green Modern Shipping Demonstration Zone, the Millennium Canal has clear water and green banks, and a green corridor has outlined a new picture of vitality, forming Jiangsu's beautiful "central axis".

The water is getting clearer and clearer, "The canal is home"

"In the past, garbage floating everywhere on the river, but now the water is getting clearer and clearer." The reporter came to the Yangzhou section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal a few days ago and encountered the "Sufada Cargo 8938" cargo ship that was about to transfer the garbage and sewage on the ship. The owner of the ship Ma Jiwen sighed: "The canal is our home all year round, and the canal is our home. The home has become cleaner, and the mood of running a boat is different! Ma Jiwen cooperated with the staff on the pollutant receiving and disposal ship to take the suction pipe and connect the sewage receiving port. The sewage accumulated on the ship for a week began to be discharged to the pollutant receiving and disposal ship. Immediately afterwards, he was busy delivering several plastic bags containing domestic waste to the sorting trash can on the pollutant receiving and disposing of the ship. A boat often produces dozens of kilograms of sewage every day, mixed with all kinds of garbage, which were directly discharged into the river by boat people in the past. Yangzhou Deputy Chief of the Navigation Supervision Section of the Local Maritime Bureau of Yangzhou City Sun Hongliang said that the sewage storage cabinet on the ship can store sewage for ten days. Not only can it receive the ports and docks along the river, but there are also mobile receiving boats in many sections of the river. As long as the boatmen call 12395, the maritime boats will soon be driven over and receive garbage, sewage and oil and water on the spot for free. Since the sewage pollutants on the ship have been promoted through the system, they have gradually become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the vast majority of ship people have already become aware of their actions in practice. Recently, in Pingwang Town, Wujiang District, Suzhou, the "Jiangyang 568" cargo ship docked at the wharf was loaded with steel to be transported to northern Jiangsu along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal. In June this year, the "Jiangyang 568" ship responded to the requirements and actively installed domestic sewage treatment devices. At this point, the sewage on the ship was uniformly transferred and discharged in a centralized manner using storage cabinets. All domestic sewage on the ship was no longer discharged to the canal and the Yangtze River, achieving zero pollution and zero emissions. "The history of the ship's sewage discharged directly to the river is over, and everyone benefits!" The ship owner Yu Run and the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal have been together for many years. "Every year, there are more than 300 days to travel on the canal, making money by relying on the canal and living by relying on the canal. Everyone is very pleased to see the canal becoming clearer."

shore is getting greener, "A blueprint drawing the canal"

This year's National Day holiday, the newly renovated Beijing-Hangzhou Canal bridge lock to Yangtze River Estuary door section has attracted many people around to visit. In the past, this section of the river bank was originally ecology, plus the small dock, and the overall mess was dirty and messy. Now, the vegetation is dense and green. Walking in it, looking at the intersection of the canal and the Yangtze River, it is sparkling, refreshing and refreshing.

Zhao Deyi, head of the Engineering Section of the Waterway Remediation Project Office of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal Bridge Lock to the Yangtze River Estuary Gate Section, introduced that this section of the shipment rectification project uses ecological and environmentally friendly materials to build a new bank protection, and water-resistant plants are planted to protect the ecological environment along the line. The implementation of the project also opened up the "last mile" navigation bottleneck of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal entering the river. In the Guangling section of Yangzhou, the Wenchang Bridge Riverside area was originally a wasteland. It was recently transformed into Qiaotou Park and has now become a leisure place for citizens. When the reporter arrived at the scene, he heard a melodious saxophone playing. Zhang Chunping, a 62-year-old Yangzhou citizen, said that he often plays saxophone here after retirement. Sometimes he stays for an afternoon, with the water of the canal, the green grass, the sports field next to him, and many people playing table tennis, which is very comfortable. The two Huaihe River channel between the Huaiyin ship lock in the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal and the Huai'an ship lock is 25 kilometers long. The reeds on both sides are dense, which complement the 7,000 square meters of vetiver grass, calamus and other aquatic plants. The boat is walking in the river, and the people are walking on the shore, as if they are swimming in a painting.Huai'an coordinates the planning of important nodes, squares, cultural signs, wharfs, etc. along the canal, combined with the demolition and transformation of ports and shipyards along the route, builds a scenic belt, park, slow-moving system, and sports garden along the river to create an upgraded version of the Grand Canal Cultural corridor. Huai'an City Deputy Mayor Zhao Quan said that the Huai'an section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal will become a veritable green "golden waterway" and a beautiful scenery in the city. It can be imagined that wandering on the banks of the canal after rectification and improvement, ecological scrolls of "fish swimming in the water, birds flying on the water, and boats walking in the scenery" will come to your face.

is located on the left bank of the lower reaches of Huai'an Huangma Bridge, along the 1.5-kilometer-long Huai'an anchorage , which is built to meet the docking of thousands of tons of ships. Chen Lijun, director of the Key Engineering Construction Office of the North Suzhou Navigation Office of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, said that the anchorage is like a riverbank garden, with self-service shore power systems, intelligent water supply piles, pollutant recovery devices, etc. After the anchorage was put into use in September, the red trail meandered among the green grasslands, and the canals slammed the shores. Some ships docked at the anchorage, and boatmen walked and stopped in the garden. Green is the background color of the Grand Canal. Since the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Transportation and local governments along the river jointly constructed and promoted cross-strait ecological restoration and landscape improvement construction, the scenery along the canal has been everywhere. Going down the river, Suzhou citizen Li Jia also felt the charm of the green canal. In the Canglang New City section of Suzhou, the vegetable fields that were originally planted on both sides of the Taiwan Strait were built illegally. At the beginning of this year, with the construction of the "Flower Fragrance Channel", the river was planted with large patches of purple-leaf wolftail grass, canna, iris, pampas, flower-leaf reeds, yellow calamus , etc., and some landscape sketches were mixed in the middle. Li Jia said, "It's very happy to live by the canal. If you have a place to take a leisurely walk."

Transportation is becoming increasingly busy. The "new canal" promotes economic development

The northern section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal is the highest-level and largest transportation section of the Grand Canal. It is the busiest inland waterway in the world, and the freight density ranks first inland rivers in the world. In the past decade, the annual freight volume has increased by more than 8%. In the past two years, the annual freight volume has been approximately 500 million tons, accounting for about 20% of the total comprehensive transportation volume in the province. Faced with huge waterway affairs, Zhou Jin, Party Secretary of the Northern Suzhou Navigation Management Office, said that by taking the lead in building a "intelligent dispatching system" in the same industry in the country, the average utilization of gate rooms has increased from 70% to more than 80%, which is equivalent to building a "new canal" with an annual traffic volume of tens of millions of tons in northern Jiangsu.

"Su Honghang Tow", the person in charge of "Su Honghang Tow", Qin Jiabao has been running on the boat for 25 years. He has not lived on the shore for many days all year round, lamenting the long time on the water. "However, when sailing on , the northern canal of Suzhou, you always feel that time passes faster, the channel passes well, the lock service is thoughtful, and the gate passes high efficiency, and it is enough to operate on the Ship Communication APP." In the view of Wang Jian, deputy director of the Construction Research Institute of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt of Jiangsu Province, protecting and leveraging the most basic function of the Grand Canal "transportation" is the best inheritance of the Grand Canal culture. It is exciting that Jiangsu's transportation department is currently taking the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt as an opportunity to promote the intelligent and intelligentization of Beijing-Hangzhou Canal shipping production, operation, supervision, and services, strengthen the application of high-precision positioning systems such as Beidou, and further serve enterprises, boat people and society with high quality. At present, the "smart canal" for 5G development is being introduced, and the construction of smart ship locks in Shiqiao, Shao Bo and Huaian will be completed in the first half of 2021. The construction of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal Green Modern Shipping Demonstration Zone has initially formed a pattern of integration of riverside green space and water and city, and green water transportation has injected new vitality into the development of the millennium canal. The canal, which is rejuvenating a new look, is also further supporting the vigorous development of the green economy industry along the river. According to statistics from the Provincial Department of Transportation, 475 kilometers of waterways currently gather 9 national development zones and 31 provincial development zones, forming a good trend of industrial and logistics parks based on canals, and also forming a new open development pattern along the route of the four cities of Xuzhou , Suqian, Huai'an and Yangzhou. The container volume of the northern Jiangsu Canal has increased by more than 20% for three consecutive years since 2016. From January to August this year, the northern Jiangsu Canal transported 182,000 containers, an increase of 29.1% year-on-year, reflecting the high-quality economic development along the canal.Looking to the future, Lu Yongquan, Director of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Transportation, said that in 2022, the Jiangsu section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal will be built into a "four beautiful canal" with shipping facilities showing the beauty of green and ecological beauty, shipping equipment showing the beauty of low-carbon and environmental protection, shipping organizations showing the beauty of efficient and smoothness, and shipping services showing the beauty of humanistic wisdom. During the period from 2022 to 2035, the development of green shipping in the Jiangsu section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal will be further consolidated and strengthened by continuously promoting ship type standardization, clean energy application, inland river container transportation and multimodal transport, and strive to form a certain demonstration effect across the country, so that the development of inland river shipping will generally reach the international leading level. Jiaohuidian reporter Mei Jianfei

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