China has a long history of canal construction. It was dug in Sugagawa in 506 BC and is the oldest artificial canal in the world. The earliest canal recorded in China is also the earliest canal dug in the world.
Golda River, an artificial river excavated by Sweden in northern Europe in A.D. 1832, is the earliest canal in Europe, more than 2300 years later than Sugagawa in China.
Extended information The longest and largest ancient canal in the world: the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the longest and largest ancient canal in the world and one of the oldest canals. Together with the Great Wall and Karez, it is called the three major ancient projects in China, and it has been in use ever since. It is a great project created by the working people in ancient China and one of the symbols of China's cultural status.
The Grand Canal starts from Yuhang (now Hangzhou) in the south and ends in Zhuo Jun (now Beijing) in the north. It runs through Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shandong and Hebei provinces, Tianjin and Beijing, and runs through five major water systems, namely Haihe River, Yellow River, Huaihe River, Yangtze River and Qiantang River, with a total length of about 1.797 km. The canal has played a great role in the economic and cultural development and communication between the north and the south of China, especially in the development of industrial and agricultural economy along the route.
During the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Wu dug for the purpose of cutting Qi, and the Sui Dynasty expanded it to Luoyang, the capital, and even Zhuo Jun County. When the Yuan Dynasty was rebuilt, it abandoned Luoyang and took Beijing.
After the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was completed, it connected the political center and economic center of the whole country with its unique communication function, and connected the production areas of different river basins. On this basis, the rulers of the feudal dynasty established a water transport system with a history of thousands of years, which transported materials from all over the country to the capital and maintained the life of the dynasty.
It has been dug for more than 2500 years now. In 2002, the Grand Canal was included in the East Route of South-to-North Water Transfer Project. 20 14 On June 22nd, the 38th World Heritage Conference announced that China's Grand Canal Project was successfully selected into the World Cultural Heritage List, becoming the 46th World Heritage Project in China.
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