The activity of celebrating the 650^th anniversary for the establishment of Nanjing City Wall of on September 5 attracted extensive attention of Nanjing citizens to better enable citizens to feel the city wall culture and carry forward the culture of the ancient capital. The ceremony of International Running Season of Nanjing City Wall “Measuring City Wall by Walking and Building up Dreams with Sweat” will be launched on Barbican Platform of Zhonghua Gate on September 24; International Running Season of Nanjing City Wall begins at 8:00 am, its running agenda is divided into 13.66km dreaming building running, 6.5km assistance running for heritage application and 2.8km protecting-public-interest running, carrying forward the sports enthusiasm of “Vigorously Walking around City Wall for 70 Li”, and running from Dongshui Pass to Xishui Pass, along Qinhuai River and becoming a Nanjing Citizen with deep emotion. Activity of “Reading Season of Reading Ancient and Modern History and Permeating Fragrance of Books with the Whole City” will be held in “Book Club in the Belly of the City Wall” that afternoon and each book club will allocate different leader in reading aloud based on different themes to leader all of us to read the lingering charm left in the history of the City Wall and on the occasion citizens can choose their favorite theme based on different themes of each club to go the book club to participate in the activity.

In golden September, International Running Season of Nanjing City Wall enables the public with different feelings to the City Wall to participate in helping applying for the list of world heritage for the City Wall, gets all people involved in and make the City Wall a “City Wall for People”, leave memories of City Wall for all people and make the City not a cold brick, but become a cradle carrying the dream of all Nanjing citizens. The Activity of Permeating Fragrance of Books with the Whole City in “Book Club “in the Belly of the City Wall” and series activities of Measuring City Wall by Walking and Building up Dreams with Sweat “in running season will last to the end of December and at that time, citizens can register for participating in their favorite activities the last ten-day of each month and promote the application for the list of world heritage for the City Wall by their own efforts.

 

 

 

 

 

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