In 605 AD, Emperor Yang Guang, the second emperor of Sui Dynasty, ordered excavation of the Grand Canal to meet the political, economic and military needs of unified nation.

Veteran China journalist Ian Johnson, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his coverage of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, recently spent two weeks aboard a barge on China’s Grand Canal ...

Archaeologists have discovered a total of 85 ancient sites from the Sui Dynasty (581-618) and later periods in the Hengshui section of the Grand Canal, according to the Hebei provincial institute of ...

The Grand Canal, the longestand ... Suitang Great Canal from the Sui Dynasty (581-618), Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal and Zhedong Grand Canal. ... As a key water control project in ancient China, ...

China's Grand Canal, ... The locating position of the boat lies on the old course of the grand canal in Sui Dynasty (581-618) and Tang Dynasty (618-907) according to historical records.

The 3,200-kilometer China Grand Canal dates back over 2,000 years, and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014. The Sui (581-618) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties witnessed two peak ...

China's Grand Canal, ... The locating position of the boat lies on the old course of the grand canal in Sui Dynasty (581-618) and Tang Dynasty (618-907) according to historical records.

The original canal system, built by Emperor Yang of the Sui dynasty, was seen by Chinese historians as an act of brilliant madness. Ancient China’s main rivers ran west to east, and Yang wanted ...

The Grand Canal s considered to be the longest canal in the world (Image: Getty) At its peak during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644 AD), the system totalled about 2,500 kilometres (1,553 miles).

Two sunken wooden vessels from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)were discovered at the Tianjin section of China's Grand Canal in 2012. China's Grand Canal, the longest artificial waterway in the world ...