Yang Jing's speech was broadcast throughout the Grand Canal Leisure Park through the loudspeaker. There were more than 10,000 people participating in the Grand Canal Leisure Park today. Therefore, after hearing this speech, all the people participating in the opening ceremony of the entire leisure park spontaneously gave Yang Jing the warmest applause.
There is no doubt that most of the people who came to attend the opening ceremony of the Grand Canal Leisure Park today were born and raised nearby. Among them, those who are over 40 years old can still remember the beauty of the Grand Canal in the past.
The water of the Grand Canal at that time was so clear that it was intoxicating. The people living on both sides of the river even used the water of the Grand Canal as drinking water. They would carry the water home on a pole, pour it into a jar, and let it settle for half a day before drinking it!
At that time, you could catch a lot of fish by just casting a net on the Grand Canal. Children would even throw some steamed bread crumbs into empty cans, then put the cans in the water. Ten minutes later, they would take them out and there would definitely be lots of small fish fry inside.
At that time, the Grand Canal was filled with fishing boats and rows of cormorants. Although it was not the south, it was full of the flavor of southern water towns.
The Grand Canal at that time was really beautiful...
However, this canal, which carries thousands of years of Chinese history and occupies an important position in Chinese history, has turned into a stinking ditch in the more than 20 years since the 1990s!
Who wouldn’t feel sad about this? Who wouldn’t feel sad to see a clear river turned into a stinking ditch that even flies wouldn’t want to approach?
Even though the Tianqu municipal government has carried out drastic transformation and protection of the Grand Canal in recent years, the river had been damaged so deeply that it is impossible for the Grand Canal to regain its former beauty in just a few years.
This time, Yang Jing was determined. In addition to investing a huge amount of money in the Grand Canal Leisure Park, he also directly renovated the Si Nu Temple hub gate upstream of the Tianqu section of the Grand Canal. Yang Jing invested more than 20 million US dollars in the hub gate, allowing the clean water from the Yellow River Diversion Canal to flow directly into the Grand Canal.
This transformation was a relatively thorough one. Although it was impossible to completely transform the section of the Grand Canal from Tianqu downwards, there was no doubt that the water in the section from the Si Nu Si hub gate to the Grand Canal Leisure Park immediately became clear.
The Yellow River water brought in through the Yellow River Diversion Canal is the drinking water for all residents of Tianqu City!
Moreover, in order to ensure the clarity of the water in this section of the river, Yang Jing needs to pay tens of millions of yuan in water fees every year!
But this is nothing to Yang Jing. Anything that can be solved with money is not a problem for Yang Jing!
Just as he said in his speech just now, he has always loved this land, so what does it matter if he invests tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in this land every year?
Crows repay their parents, lambs kneel down to suckle their mothers. Even animals know how to give back, so how could Yang Jing be worse than animals?
He didn't have the ability before, but now he has enough funds to solve these problems, so why wouldn't he do it? If he didn't do these things, he would feel bad about it.
Therefore, the Grand Canal Leisure Park was built, and except for the amusement park, all other areas were open to the public free of charge. Even the price of the amusement park was 70% lower than that of ordinary amusement parks.
Yang Jing didn't want to use this amusement park to make money and charge fees. First, the maintenance cost of the amusement park was very high, and necessary fees were still needed. All these fees would be used to maintain the facilities in the amusement park. Another reason was that charging fees would limit some tourists from occupying resources here without restraint.
If it is free, many tourists who want to play will not be able to play, and some tourists will occupy the amusement resources for a long time. But once it is charged, this situation will be well solved.
But even so, the price of the amusement park is very affordable.
The opening ceremony ended with thunderous salutes. Afterwards, art performance units under the Municipal Bureau of Culture performed traditional folk activities such as dragon dancing, stilt walking, and land boat racing in the Grand Canal Leisure Park, which have been a tradition in Tianqu since ancient times and attracted many people to watch.
In fact, as we enter the new century, these ancient performances are becoming less and less. Yang Jing remembers that when he was a child, during the Chinese New Year and the Lantern Festival, many places in Tianqu would spontaneously perform traditional ethnic performances such as dragon dancing, stilt walking, and land boat rowing. But now, with the popularity of the Internet and smart phones, not to mention these ancient traditional performances, even the Spring Festival Gala has fewer people watching.
These traditional programs with ancient history are almost unknown to those born in the 2000s. Others dare not say, but Yang Jing knows very well that his little cousin Li Yinuo has never seen such traditional programs and doesn't even know their names.
This is actually a kind of sadness. This traditional program is one of the inheritances of the Chinese nation, but now this kind of inheritance is becoming less and less, especially for younger children, most of whom don’t even know about this inheritance. Over time, this kind of inheritance will be cut off!
Therefore, Yang Jing requested that these programs be performed at the opening ceremony this time, one is to make the scene lively, and the other is to let the children know that there are not only modern gadgets such as computers and smart phones around them, but also these ancient heritages that have been passed down for thousands of years.
The Grand Canal Leisure Park covers a large area of 80 hectares, but there were tens of thousands of people coming to watch the opening ceremony today. Therefore, after the opening ceremony, when these tens of thousands of people dispersed to play in the leisure park, the whole park was bustling with people.
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