More than 700 years ago, Italian merchant and explorer Marco Polo trekked to China, leaving a deep impression of the Grand ...

where the northernmost section of the famed Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is located. Addressing the event, Peng Jing, president of the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research ...

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 ...