Zhou Wen Zhou Tian Wang Guoji Peng Yundi
The river leaves Xiling and flows eastward. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the implementation of the Yangtze River Protection Strategy, and construction of a new Three Gorges water transport channel has begun in Yichang, Hubei. The river breeze carries the sound of waves and flows through the Lighthouse Square. The thousands-mile river is writing a new chapter of safety, greenness and symbiosis in the new era.
On the 19th, the online themed publicity campaign "Why China Amazes the World" kicked off at Yichang Lighthouse Square. With the river as the curtain and the gorge as the background, the stage features yellowing engineering drawings, images of finless porpoises leaping into the waves, and poems on the Xiajiang River. Three tokens unique to the Yangtze River connect together touching stories of water control, ecological restoration, and cultural sustainability, and slowly unfold the answers to the times of the Yangtze River.
Token 1: Yellowing Engineering Drawings
The lights slowly dimmed, and the story of "A Hundred Years of Dreams Come True" began. As the light and shadow flowed, the figures of Lin Yishan, Zheng Shouren and other ancestors who governed Jiang reappeared, and the scene of the women's electric welding class lying on the narrow seam welding and meeting their children appeared on the big screen.
Many audiences in the audience listened attentively, with red eyes, and went back to the glorious years of the construction of the Three Gorges Dam with the actors.
A piece of blueprint hides the dream of water control that spans generations. At that time, countless builders took root in the mountains, worked hard at their desks, and worked hard to tame the Yangtze River floods and lift the Three Gorges Project despite lack of experience and equipment. Niu Xinqiang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chief scientist of the Yangtze River Design Group, and Liu Weiping, party secretary and chairman of the China Three Gorges Corporation, took the stage to dismantle the water control logic behind the Great Power Project; three young teams of the Three Gorges Corporation stood on the stage one after another, guarding the reservoir, inspecting the unit, and attacking the new Three Gorges water transportation channel, taking over the baton passed by their predecessors.
When the story turned to "Children of the Xiajiang River", the memory of fighting the flood in 1998 came to mind. Jiang Shan, who clung to a tree for nine hours during the flood, Wang Minghua, a policeman on the front line, and Xie Rong, an immigrant representative who left his hometown to support the construction of the Three Gorges Project, stood in the river breeze and talked about the decisions of levee rescue, life and death rescue, and relocation.
"Back then, it was Uncle Wang Minghua and that poplar tree that saved me. Now, with the support of the country, like Uncle Wang, I have become a people's policeman." Jiang Shan said.
"Facing the raging floods, we can only use our bodies to block it. Today, the Three Gorges Dam has built an indestructible life barrier for hundreds of millions of people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait." Wang Minghua responded.
When they saw the scene where Jiang Shan and Wang Minghua reunited, the scene became quiet, and many people quietly raised their hands to wipe away the tears from their eyes.
The flood peaks that used to be turbulent and difficult to control are now being dispatched in an orderly manner by key projects, and people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have finally found peace. In the "Project of the Century" program, the four chief engineers told the stories behind major projects such as the Pinglu Canal, Wudongde, Baihetan, and diversion of rivers to replenish Han Dynasty. The blueprints on paper were implemented into mountain and river barriers.
These sweat-soaked drawings witness the Yangtze River getting rid of the entanglement of floods and ushering in the new life of Anlan.
Token 2: Image of finless porpoise leaping into the waves
The river breeze took a break. During the sharing session of "The Background of the River", Yichang Municipal Party Committee Secretary Huang Jianxiong, Xingfa Group Party Secretary and Chairman Li Guozhang, Huang Guiyun, deputy director of the Yangtze River Biodiversity Research Center of the National Engineering Center of the Three Gorges Corporation, and Olympic champion and China's cetacean and dolphin guardian Sun Jiajun shared face-to-face with the audience the ecological changes in the Xiajiang River.
As soon as the big screen lit up, the scene of the finless porpoise breaking out of the water and swimming freely in the waves came into view. There was a burst of cheers on the scene, and many spectators raised their mobile phones to freeze the hard-won "smile".
Who would have thought that this section of the river was once densely populated with docks and factories along the river.
In order to protect the clean water of the river, Xingfa Group reluctantly dismantled 32 sets of chemical equipment along the river, took the initiative to vacate the shoreline, and embarked on a new green path amid the pain of transformation.
Deep in the canyon, Huang Guiyun takes root in the field to conserve rare plants all year round. The goal is to protect 3,000 unique plants in the Yangtze River Basin from protecting thousands of species. Each rare plant takes root and grows in the Xiajiang River.
Sun Jiajun, a native of Yichang, has a simple and touching sentiment: "When the water is good, I can swim fast. The same goes for the finless porpoise."
Enterprise transformation, species conservation, and people's protection of rivers are all actions that converge into a joint force for ecological protection. Finless porpoises, which were once elusive, frequently appear, and their leaping figures reflect the changes in the Yangtze River where creatures live freely and regain vitality.
Token 3: Xiajiang Poetry Scroll
With the melodious sound of the piano, "The Boat Has Crossed the Ten Thousand Mountains" opens a dialogue in time and space that spans thousands of years. Qu Yuan's ambition to explore and Li Bai's chanting on the Gorge River meet here across time. Fang Qin, director of the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology, combined the archaeological remains of the Yangtze River to decode the roots and soul of the river that nurtured Chinese civilization. The audience listened attentively and understood the rich cultural context carried by the river.
The culture is long and the rivers share the same heart. In the program "Living by the Yangtze River", representatives of river protection from 11 provinces and regions along the Yangtze River gathered on the stage: Tanggula Mountain glacier patrollers, Jinsha River rock painting guardians, fishermen who have transferred to the shore, silver-haired volunteers, young river protection team members... Thousands of ordinary people guard the same mother river.
The ordinary stories of protecting the river were slowly told one after another, and the audience nodded frequently and resonated with their hearts. Fang Qi eloquently described the scenery along the river, while Xiaojuan, the residents in the valley and the children sang together. The gentle songs floated in the river wind, filled with the warmth of fireworks on both sides of the river.
This volume of poems on the Xiajiang River contains Chu and Tang poems, as well as ancient and modern poems about the river, connecting the thousand-year cultural context and the concerted persistence of contemporary river protectors. The fire of civilization has been passed down from generation to generation along the river, and the Yangtze River has ushered in a new cultural context.
As the night grew darker, Yu Kewei sang "My Motherland". The melody of "A big river has wide waves" sounded, and the audience held the national flag high and sang along softly. The singing, river waves, and lighthouse lights blended together, echoing in the night of Xiajiang River for a long time.
The river flows endlessly, and the tokens carry the original intention. The Yangtze River is continuing to write a new chapter of "astonishing the world" with its new attitude of clear water, green shores and harmony.
