The Grand Canal of China has been used more than 2,000 years,which is the longest and largest canal project from time and space in the world.In the long process of construction,use and maintenance of the Grand Canal,it has added the Grand Canal of China rich value,mainly as scientific and technological value,social and economic value,political and cultural value.The Grand Canal has been playing an important role in grain trans-portation,commercial transportation,agricultural irrigation,flood control and disaster reduction,urban water supply,and urban landscape construction.The heritage value of the Grand Canal of China is systematically sum-marized,so as to provide theoretical support for the construction of current Grand Canal Cultural Belt and the Grand Canal National Cultural Park.
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