英文红旗渠介绍

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Chinese (Pinyin) Hongqi Qu or (Wade-Giles romanization) Hung-ch'i Ch'ü, English Red Flag Canal canal and irrigation system in northern Henan and in Shanxi provinces, eastern China, constructed in 1960–69 to irrigate the poor and infertile area of Linxian county (now Linzhou municipality) in the foothills of the Taihang Mountains west of Anyang. To relieve this area's chronic shortage of water, the canal was constructed for 44 miles (71 km) across the mountains to a large dam on the Zhang River in Shanxi. Construction of the canal was an engineering feat: in places it required cutting the channel into sheer cliff faces and constructing 42 tunnels and many aqueducts, some of considerable length. Since 1965, when the main canal was completed, the area has been linked wi