Red Flag Canal

　　The Red Flag Canal is an engineering leading the Zhanghe in to Lin County, built at the Taihang mountainside by the people of Linn County (Linzhou city, Anyang Region) under extremely difficult conditions in the 1960s. If we use these earth and stones to build a 2-meter-high, 3-meter-wide the wall, the wall can connect the Guangzhou with Harbin throughout north and south of China. The Red Flag Canal is a national key cultural relic protection unit and called "Artificial Tianhe". It is also called the eighth wonder of the world.

　　The Red Flag Canal engineering started in February 1960 and the auxiliary engineering of branch canals were completed in July 1969, lasting more than ten years. It takes Zhuozhang river as source, and damed at Houbi, Shicheng Town, Pingshun County, ShanXi Province, leading the Zhanghe in to Lin County(Linzhou, Henan Province). The engineering leveled 1250 mountains, and set 151 flumes, cut 211 tunnels, built 12408 various buildings, dig and build 22.25 million-cubic-meter bricks or stones. The full length of the main canal is 70.6 km of (Shicheng Town, Shanxi Province to Rencun Town, Henan Province). The main canal and lateral canals were distributed over the towns of the city. Since the completion of Red Flag Canal in 1969, there have been more than 11700 foreigners from over 140 countries and regions of five continents successively to visit it.

　　The Red Flag Canal was a miracle created by Linzhou people with spirit of "self-reliance, hard work, self-reliance, innovation, unity, cooperation, and selfless dedication" in Mao's era. The 1500 km-length red flag canal, ended a long drought and miserable history of Linzhou. 

　　Premier Zhou Enlai once proudly told international friends: "there are two wonders in new China, one is the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, another is the Red Flag Canal of Lin County.”