Torchbearer Shan Jixiang: Light up the "City of The Two Olympics" and convey the charm of the world heritage

Shan Jixiang relays the torch of the Beijing Winter Olympics

Beijing, 5 Feb (China News Network) -- The 24th Winter Olympics opened in Beijing on the evening of 4 February. Shan Jixiang, president of the Chinese Cultural Relics Society and former director of the Palace Museum, wore a uniform with a white background and red and yellow colors to participate in the torch relay at the Summer Palace on the 4th.

The core connotation of the Summer Palace is to reflect the charm of the ancient capital and the world cultural heritage, show Beijing's profound historical and cultural heritage, and be the witness of the historical situation and the pearl of the Yongdinghe Cultural Belt in Xishan. Here, people not only convey the Olympic spirit, but also the continuous Chinese civilization.

Shan Jixiang has been engaged in the protection of cultural heritage for many years, and it is of special significance to complete the relay of the Torch of the Winter Olympics at the Summer Palace, a world cultural heritage site. "The opening ceremony was held in such a good environment and such a good air quality, and it is also a very good achievement in the urban construction and urban environmental improvement of Beijing in recent years, which encourages us to work harder." Shan Jixiang said.

From 2008 to 2022, from the Summer Olympics to the Winter Olympics, Beijing became the first "city of two Olympics" in Olympic history. This glory and calmness have been integrated into the urban construction of Beijing, so that the preparation for the Winter Olympics and the economic and cultural development of the capital have promoted each other, and the thousand-year-old capital has been revitalized again.

The second season of the world heritage reveal interactive documentary program "Ten Thousand Miles of Single Riding - China in Heritage", with Shan Jixiang as the initiator and cultural guide, is currently airing. The program is committed to the young inheritance of the World Heritage culture, focusing on allowing the audience to understand and inherit the World Heritage, deeply stimulating the sense of mission of young people, and allowing traditional culture and young people to "break the circle" to embrace.

Shan Jixiang said that every grand event and colorful event that occurs in Beijing decorates the axis of the city, and every old Beijing and new Beijinger who works and lives along the central axis uses their own struggles and dreams to light up the central axis of Beijing. At present, Beijing is accelerating the process of applying for heritage on the central axis, and with the development and vitality of the central axis of Beijing, the ancient capital of Beijing, which has seven World Heritage Sites of the Great Wall, the Forbidden City of Beijing, the Peking People's Ruins of Zhoukoudian, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, the Ming and Qing Royal Mausoleums and the Grand Canal, is entering a new journey. (End)