China Grand Canal Map. China's Grand Canal, the longest in the World Dongxiayuan station is a station on Line 6 of the Beijing Subway. Image by 王 波 波 available under a Creative Commons License 2025 Year of the Snake 29th January 2025 marks the end of the year of the Dragon and the beginning of the year of the Snake
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Grand Canal, series of waterways in eastern and northern China that link Hangzhou in Zhejiang province with Beijing.Some 1,800 km (1,100 miles) in length, it is the world's longest constructed waterway, though, strictly speaking, not all of it is a canal.It was built to enable successive Chinese regimes to transport surplus grain from the agriculturally rich Yangtze (Chang) and Huai river. As the oldest and longest man-made canal in the world, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is 1,794 kilometers (1,115 miles) long with a history of over 2,500 years, and it starts at Beijing in the north and ends at Hangzhou in the south, running through Tianjin, Hebei Province, Shandong Province, Jiangsu Province and Zhejiang Province along its way.
The Grand Canal takes most of the waterways to make a route. The Grand Canal has fallen due to the Rebellion and was abandoned around Beijing Fig.2 Map of the Grand Canal in the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties (from the sixth to the 12th century) Fig.3 Map of the Grand Canal in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties (from the 12th to the 19th century) According to historical records, the Grand Canal of China has been in use for nearly 2,500 years, since the excavation of the Hangou Canal in.
. The Grand Canal is one of the greatest hydraulic projects in human history, stretching 1794 km and linking five of China's main river basins. Boats on the ancient Grand Canal, China Ancient Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in Wuxi area
. The 'Modern' Grand Canal and the Great Wall frontier The Grand Canal takes most of the waterways to make a route.