Red Flag Canal
The Red Flag Canal or Hongqi Canal ( Chinese 红旗渠 , Pinyin Hóngqíqú , W.-G. Hung-ch'i ch'ü , English Red Flag Canal ) in the area of the Chinese city of Linzhou in the " triangle " of the provinces Henan , Shanxi and Hebei .
The main canal is approx. 71 km long. The sewer network with secondary canals and irrigation canals covers a total of over 1,500 km.
The canal has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (6-990) since 2006 .
history
The canal was built from late 1959 to 1969 to irrigate the arid area of Lin County (Línxiàn 林 县 ) (now Linzhou) at the foot of the Taihangshan, west of Anyang . It is one of the hydraulic engineering measures that were planned and started during the Great Leap Forward . Allegedly more earth was moved in the week of December 12, 1959 than during the entire construction of the Panama Canal .
literature
- Lin Min: The Red Flag Canal . Foreign Language Literature Publishing House, Beijing 1974.
Single receipts
- ↑ Red Flag Canal (English)
- ↑ 红旗渠 ( Memento from January 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Chinese)
- ^ Judith Shapiro: Mao's war against nature - Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China. Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 79. ISBN 0-521-78680-0 .
Coordinates: 36 ° 21 ′ 12 " N , 113 ° 45 ′ 34" E