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The Grand Canal (Chinese: 大运河; pinyin: Dà yùnhé) is a system of interconnected canals linking various major rivers in North and East China, serving as an important waterborne transport infrastructure between the north and the south during Medieval and premodern China.
The University of International Relations is a public university based in Beijing, under the Ministry of State Security. It was a National Key University. Its Hangzhou campus used to be Zhejiang Second Police College under the Ministry of State Security since 1983 before it was made the Hangzhou campus of the university in 1997.
In May 2013, the Eastern Zhejiang Canal was officially included as part of the Grand Canal within China and listed in the seventh group of Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level. [7] In 2014, it was inducted as a World Heritage Site alongside the Beijing–Hangzhou Grand Canal and the Sui and Tang Grand Canal. [8]
Hangzhou University (HZU; 杭州大学) was a public university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. [1] The institute was merged into Zhejiang University in 1998.. The university was founded as Zhejiang Teachers College (浙江师范学院) in 1952 by merging the departments of humanities, sciences and education at Hangchow University and Zhejiang University.
Research on the Application of Spatial Information Technology in the Conservation of Large Archaeological Sites: A Case Study of the Grand Canal (Beijing-Hangzhou) [27] [28] 2007-2008 Other projects at the national level
Beijing: Beijing Badaling and Mutianyu Great Wall: 2007 A 3,741 m section of the Great Wall [13] initially constructed in 1505 to protect the Juyong Pass, [14] restored after 1952, [15] and opened to tourists in 1958. [13] It has received scores of foreign leaders, most notably US president Richard Nixon during his 1972 visit. [15] Beijing: Beijing
Pope Francis has appointed Giuseppe Yang Yongqiang as bishop of Hangzhou, the capital of China's eastern province of Zhejiang, Vatican said on Saturday as it strives to strengthen relations with ...
These were the Guangtong Canal (廣通渠), Tongji Canal (通濟渠), Shanyang Channel (山陽瀆) and Yongji Canal (永濟渠) which formed the basis of a large scale canal based transport network. At the time of Emperor Jingzong of Tang (r. 824–827) the canal system had become too shallow. This restricted the movement of salt and iron which ...