As the "origin" of the Grand Canal and the focus of demonstration for the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, Jiangsu has built a high-grade cultural corridor, high-value ecological corridor and high-level tourist corridor in recent years by leading the protection, inheritance and utilization with top-level design. The traffic artery connecting north and south has become a wonderful model and practice of the New Jiangsu.

The Grand Canal solved the unbalanced and insufficient regional development. After Taizhou was included in the canal cultural tourist cities, the "Qintong Boat" and "8 Zhen Lake Fishes" attracted more tourists. And the integration of culture and tourism brought income to the people there.