The transformation of Hangzhou’s old steelworks into a park is a tribute to China’s industrial past in a city of the future ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] In ancient times, the Grand Canal served as the main artery ... According to an old Chinese saying: "It's futile to draw water with a bamboo basket".

[Photo provided to China Daily] China's Grand Canal, the longest man-made waterway ... parenting model and soaring property prices, to draw audience. Noting that the new drama has achieved a ...

Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled its proposal for a linear museum complex in Hangzhou that will sit beside China's Grand Canal and celebrate ... access for crowd-drawing events," explained the ...

A boat sails on the Wuxi section of China's Grand Canal, in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu province, June 22, 2014. China's Grand Canal, the longest artificial waterway in the world, was inscribed on ...

The Grand Canal in China is the world’s oldest and longest manmade waterway. The 2,500-year-old canal, half of which is still operational today, made it to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2014.

Such an unsentimental attitude might suggest unimportance, but barges plying the Grand Canal have knit China together for 14 centuries, carrying grain, soldiers, and ideas between the economic ...

Running across 1,794 kilometres, the Grand Canal has served as a significant transportation artery in ancient China. It formed the backbone of the Empire's inland communication system ...

They say it will be the first canal connecting a river to the sea to be built in China since the Communist takeover in 1949, and the first for transport since the Grand Canal itself. They predict ...