At the 44th World Heritage conference, the Great Wall was rated as a model case of world heritage protection and management by the World Heritage Committee. Jiayuguan in Gansu Province, known as "the most powerful pass in the world", is the starting point of the western end of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty. It is also an ancient military castle with the most spectacular scale and the best preservation along the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty. It is a necessary place for the silk road. In recent years, Jiayuguan has taken accelerating the integrated development of culture and tourism industry as a breakthrough to promote economic transformation and upgrading and urban transformation and development. Relying on the cultural relics resources represented by Jiayuguan, Jiayuguan has developed and built a cultural relics tourism scenic spot with Guancheng as the main body, promoting the deep integration of culture and tourism and the construction of a global tourism demonstration area, Promote the high-quality development of culture and tourism industry.
In order to better protect Jiayuguan cultural relics scenic spot, Jiayuguan city established the Municipal Bureau of cultural relics in 2010, Jiayuguan Silk Road (Great Wall) Cultural Research Institute and Jiayuguan scenic spot management committee in 2016. From 2012 to 2016, Jiayuguan City won a special fund of 267.8 million yuan from the central government, implemented the Jiayuguan world cultural heritage protection project, adhered to the principle of "minimum intervention and maintaining the original appearance of cultural relics", cured the diseases endangering the safety of the Great Wall, and effectively protected the authenticity and integrity of the Great Wall.
At the same time, Jiayuguan city actively adopts scientific and technological means to improve the protection level. The Silk Road Culture Research Institute of Jiayuguan Silk Road (Great Wall) Culture Research Institute launched the "deepening design scheme of Jiayuguan world cultural heritage monitoring system project", focusing on the analysis, display and utilization of monitoring data and the improvement of the construction of monitoring and early warning system, so as to further improve the overall protection and management level of world cultural heritage and effectively prevent heritage protection risks, Realize the standardization and refinement of heritage protection and management measures.
"In recent years, starting from the reality of the protection of the Great Wall in Jiayuguan, we have actively changed the concept of the protection of the great wall and explored a new model of the protection of the Great Wall in Jiayuguan from five aspects. For example, using high-precision scientific and technological equipment to carry out the heritage monitoring of the Great Wall, and creating a heritage protection and management mode of risk monitoring - Comprehensive Prediction - early warning - immediate treatment; Deeply study the cultural value and spirit of the Great Wall, tell the story of the great wall and carry forward the spirit of the great wall; Recruit volunteers for the protection of the Great Wall to the whole society, and encourage the public to participate in the protection of the Great Wall. " Introduced by Zhang Bin, director of the Great Wall Protection Institute of Jiayuguan Silk Road (Great Wall) Culture Research Institute.
With the effective implementation of world cultural heritage protection, Jiayuguan has gradually become a tourist destination for Chinese and foreign tourists to dream of the Silk Road and visit the Great Wall civilization.
In Jiayuguan City, the ceremony of issuing customs clearance documents has become a project for tourists to punch in. A "Customs Commissioner" wearing ancient costumes writes customs clearance documents according to the ancient appellation of each tourist's address, and tells tourists the origin of these place names, which is favored by tourists.
"On the premise of protecting the world cultural heritage, we have created a number of tourism experience projects, such as tourists riding camels outside Guancheng to experience the desolation of the desert Gobi and customs clearance ceremony performances. At the same time, the Great Wall Museum has been built to improve the infrastructure of scenic spots such as the world's first pier and the hanging wall great wall, so as to bring better visiting experience to tourists. " Zhang Dongsheng, general manager of Jiayuguan cultural tourism group, said.
Zhao Shumin, party secretary and director of Jiayuguan Municipal Bureau of culture and tourism, introduced that in recent years, the city has been taking Jiayuguan City as the core, building Jiayuguan City as a scenic spot, taking the Great Wall culture as the context, building a number of new cultural and tourism projects, creating a gold lettered signboard of "the first grand pass in the world - Jiayuguan" and a "Great Wall Silk Road", "Happy tourism Jiayuguan" tourism city brand and related product system.
Today, focusing on the construction of an industrial system integrating culture, tourism and business, Jiayuguan has invested nearly 10 billion yuan to build major cultural and tourism projects such as Fangte Silk Road divine painting, Yuquan ancient street and Jiayuguan World Cultural Heritage Park with Jiayuguan City scenic spot as the core, promote the integrated development of tourism and other industries, and form a national Guancheng historical and cultural park Many types of cultural and tourism industrial parks, such as Xincheng Caohu National Wetland Park and the provincial geological park of Taolai River Grand Canyon, have formed a new tourism development pattern with cultural relics and historic sites as the leader and modern industrial tourism, ecological sightseeing tourism and leisure vacation tourism as one.
In order to make the Great Wall not only a building, but a "living" and "touchable" history, Jiayuguan City continues to enrich tourism formats and promote the activation and utilization of world cultural heritage. On June 28, the frontier fortress epic drama "the mighty pass in the world" premiered in guanchengli scenic spot, Jiayuguan City. Based on the stories of Silk Road sages and heroes such as Zhang Qian, Huo Qubing and Xuan Zang, the play shows the history and culture of Jiayuguan for thousands of years and is favored by tourists.
In addition, Jiayuguan actively promotes the development of research tourism and inherits the Great Wall culture. In April this year, Jiayuguan culture and Tourism Bureau, together with the departments of culture, tourism, education and the Communist Youth League of Wuwei, Jinchang, Zhangye and Jiuquan, signed the framework agreement on accelerating the linkage development of research, learning and tourism in Hexi corridor. At present, Jiayuguan Municipal Bureau of culture and tourism has launched research tourism products with the theme of Great Wall culture, such as "Jiayuguan Great Wall defense line", "Fangte Silk Road myth research products", "I built the Great Wall in Jiayuguan", "this is how steel is refined", etc“ Next, we plan to build a theme research and learning base, cooperate with well-known universities and scientific research institutions, and develop research and learning products integrating knowledge popularization, experience investigation and inspirational development. " Zhao Shumin said（ Reporter Zhang Longtang)
Source: China Tourism News client
