Grand canal china

China's Grand Canal and ancient Silk Road were added to the World Heritage list on the 38th session of the UNESTO’s World Heritage Committee, held in Doha, the capital of Qatar on June 22, 2014.

605-611- The building of the Grand Canal linking the Yangzi & Yellow Rivers gives China a link between its famine-prone north & its productive south. A food-security measure on this scale will not be replicated until North America's transcontinental railroads over 1000 years later.

UNESCO World Heritage Centre

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The Grand Canal is a vast waterway system in the north-eastern and central-eastern plains of China, running from Beijing in the north to Zhejiang province in the south. Constructed in sections from the 5th century BC onwards, it was conceived as a unified means of communication for the Empire for the first time in the 7th century AD (Sui dynasty). This led to a series of gigantic construction sites, creating the world’s largest and most extensive civil engineering project prior to the…

The Grand Canal is a vast waterway system in the north-eastern and central-eastern plains of China, running from Beijing in the north to Zhejiang province in the south. Constructed in sections from the 5th century BC onwards, it was conceived as a unified means of communication for the Empire for the first time in the 7th century AD (Sui dynasty). This led to a series of gigantic construction sites, creating the world’s largest and most extensive civil engineering project prior to the…

A thousand-mile canal that took two thousand years to build celebrates its anniversary as a World Heritage

A Day on the Grand Canal with the Emperor of China, or Surface is Illusion, But So is Depth - David Hockney

The Grand Canal was constructed during the Sui Dynasty by connecting numerous ancient waterways between the Kaifeng in Henan and Nanjing in Jiangsu.

#Hangzhou, formerly romanised as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of #Zhejiang Province in Eastern #China. It sits at the head of Hangzhou Bay, which separates Shanghai and Ningbo. Hangzhou grew to prominence as the southern terminus of the Grand Canal and has been one of the most renowned and prosperous cities in China for much of the last millennium, due in part to its beautiful natural scenery. The city's West Lake is its best-known attraction(wikipedia). #Travel #charmingChina