China’s Ancient Lifeline. The 1,400-year-old Grand Canal is a monumental project that bound north and south China together. It’s still in use today.

Local governments seeking economy-boosting infrastructure projects are pitching costly waterways, ushering in a 'grand canal era' and raising eyebrows This is the second story in a two-part series ...

The Grand Canal became the 46th of China's World Heritage sites at the 38th World Heritage Convention in Doha, capital of Qatar on June 22, 2014.

Veteran China journalist Ian Johnson, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for his coverage of persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, recently spent two weeks aboard a barge on China’s Grand Canal.

SINCE I last wrote, I have been up the Yangtsze-kiang as far as Hankow and back, and have seen a little of the canal life which forms such an important part of Chinese inland traffic, the canals ...

Rather than joining the thronging mobs that overran China’s popular tourist spots during this year’s National Day holidays, Zhang Shuang, 27, got on his bicycle and took to the dusty ...

Stretching 1,782 kilometers (1,107 miles) – about nine times the length of the Suez Canal, China’s Grand Canal is the world’s longest human-made river.

A boat sails on the Wuxi section of China's Grand Canal, in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu province, June 22, 2014. China's Grand Canal, the longest artificial waterway in the world, was inscribed on ...

The China that we know today would probably not be the same without the Grand Canal. Throughout the years, this waterway breathed life into more than 300 cities and over 10,000 ancient towns.

IN the spring of 1860, being at Shanghai, in the course of a voyage round the world, I was invited to join some friends in a boat expedition up the Grand Canal to the famous city of SuChau. This ...

The China that we know today would probably not be the same without the Grand Canal. Throughout the years, this waterway breathed life into more than 300 cities and over 10,000 ancient towns.