(250526) -- YANGZHOU, May 26, 2025 (Xinhua) -- Tourists take a boat to tour the Slender West Lake scenic spot in Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, May 19, 2025.
As one of the famous ancient cities of China, Yangzhou has a history of over 2,500 years. It is making full use of the cultural tourism resources of the Grand Canal, exploring new scenes and formats, and creating cultural tourism projects for night tours of the canal to inject new vitality into the ancient city.
The Grand Canal connects Beijing and Hangzhou in east China's Zhejiang Province, serving as a significant transportation artery in ancient China. An over 1,000-km-stretch of the canal was declared a World Heritage site in 2014. (Xinhua/Chen Shuo)
