The city leading the bid for the Grand Canal is Yangzhou.

Yangzhou is a famous historical and cultural city with a history of more than 2,500 years. It is also the origin city of China's Grand Canal and the leading city in applying for the Grand Canal as a World Heritage Site. It has successively won three titles: "World Canal Capital", "World Culinary Capital" and "East Asian Cultural Capital".

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The Grand Canal is a great project created by the Chinese people. It has recorded the indescribable depth, magnificence and splendor of Chinese history and culture, and witnessed the long history of Chinese civilization and the diligence and wisdom of the Chinese nation.

Use systematic thinking to promote the protection, inheritance and utilization of the Grand Canal, plan from a high starting point, and promote the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt and the Grand Canal Yangtze River National Cultural Park with high standards.

Among the twelve scenes of the Yangzhou Canal, there are both ecological landscapes and cultural highlands; there are both historical classics and emerging talents of the times; they not only contain the romance and wisdom of the ancients, but also highlight the creations and deeds of today's people. It is the oldest canal in Yangzhou

, a concentrated display of the most core, most essence, and most energetic section.