Source: Qinhuangdao Evening News
In order to further explore the Great Wall culture, promote the spirit of the Great Wall, stimulate the sense of national pride and self-confidence of the public, attract more Chinese and foreign tourists, explore the unique charm of the Great Wall of China and the profoundness of the Chinese civilization, and build a bridge of civilization exchange and mutual learning, the campaign themed with “Going to the Qinhuangdao Great Wall” was launched in Qinhuangdao. On May 29, a press conference was held by the Publicity Department of Qinhuangdao Municipal Party Committee and the Information Office of Municipal Government, to introduce and answer questions from reporters on the campaign.
Over the past years, the municipal party committee and the municipal government have strengthened the daily management of the Great Wall by formulating regulations, establishing systems, setting up workstations, implementing projects, and enhancing publicity. On the basis of completing a comprehensive survey on the resources of the Great Wall in the country, the protection areas of the Great Wall and the construction control zone were delineated. 80 Great Wall Protection Marks were established, 6 Great Wall Record Archives and 11 Great Wall Protection Management Organizations were set up. People from all walks of life actively participated in the protection of the Great Wall, and a number of experts of the Great Wall emerged, making outstanding contributions to the protection of the Great Wall. Qinhuangdao City initiated the “Great Wall Protector” system in 2003 which was the first in China. On May 31, 2018, Qinhuangdao Great Wall Protection Regulations was reviewed and approved by the Standing Committee of the People’s Congress of Hebei Province, and officially implemented on September 1, 2018. July 5 of each year is determined as the Great Wall Day of Qinhuangdao City.
The Qinhuangdao Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government decided to carry out the campaign of "Going to the Qinhuangdao Great Wall", aiming to further explore the Great Wall culture and promote the Great Wall spirit by listening to the cultural relics and revitalizing the Great Wall.
According to the principle of “Led by the officials, guided by the experts, and participated by all”, the Great Wall in Qinhuangdao was divided into 15 sections, one research group is set up for each section in the way of concentration and decentralization. From February 23 to mid-April, led by the municipal officials, 15 research groups took pictures over mountains to record data, study the current situations, and solve existing problems. Through the research, everyone learned the history and the culture of the Great Wall, appreciated the beauty of the Great Wall, and strengthened the responsibility and belief of the Great Wall protection.
In the past two months, the research groups have investigated 75 villages along the Great Wall, registered 35 cultural relics along the Great Wall, 850 pieces(sets) of Great Wall cultural relics, finished 967 questionnaires, evaluated 25 risk points of the Great Wall protection, visited 75 Great Wall protectors, collected 33 folk tales along the Great Wall and 45 literary works, taken 235 pictures of the Great Wall scenery, and proposed 38 rectification opinions on the buildings on both sides of the Great Wall that affected the landscape, laying solid foundation for the following work on the Great Wall protection.
At present, it has been the stage of achievements transformation, which will be carried out focusing on “ten ones”: 1. Compile Development Plan on Qinhuangdao Great Wall Culture Tourism, including the protection, maintenance and utilization of the Great Wall, the development of resources on both sides of the Great Wall, and the economic development along the Great Wall. 2. Publish a series of the Great Wall Encyclopedia in China (Qinhuangdao Volume), comprehensively containing the history of Qinhuangdao Great Wall. 3. Install a set of Great Wall logos, to establish the first Great Wall mileage system in China. 4. Produce creative videos of the Great Wall, to show the full view and charm of the Great Wall. 5. Produce a documentary film, to record the work of “Going to the Great Wall”. 6. Realize rapid mobile guide service to the Great Wall tour by the mode of online and offline. 7. Formulate a set of protection system of the Great Wall, to improve the management level of the Great Wall. 8. Build a Great Wall smart digital control platform, to realize the intelligent control of the Great Wall security, the real-time monitoring of the Great Wall heritage and the data collection. 9. Build a Great Wall Trail and plan to build the Great Wall Cultural Park. 10. Condense the power of protecting the Great Wall and carry out the publicity on the Great Wall knowledge, and theme educational activities of loving the Great Wall, the hometown, and the motherland.
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