it was really just a fabulous way to expand trade.
Grand Canal
the grand canal
china built the great wall of china, the grand canal, and many other things that we use today
Kublai Khan built the Grand Canal and restored parts of the Great Wall of China. He also stopped the State Civil Service Examination in China.
The Grand Canal was the waterway that was constructed to link China's two great rivers, the Yellow River in the north and the Yangtze in the south.
Great Streets The Grand Canal with Nathan Lane - 2000 TV was released on: USA: 2000
The Sui Dynasty united northern and southern China. This was the first time it had happened in over one hundred years.
China's first great canal system, which created a northeast-southwest link from the Huang He (when the Huang had a northern course) to the Huai River.
They built and repaired most of the Great Wall of China, renovated almost the entirety of the Grand Canal, moved the capitol from Nanjing to Beijing, and reinstated Confucianism as their philosophy.
the Grant Canal from Beijing to Hangzhou. It's great!
The south to north water diversion project is the China's biggest ever canal project in which the companies are interested for capitalization. Overseas companies of Japan, Germany and France have shown their willingness to invest in this project Some electronic machinery and pump manufacturers in SHINGHAI, central China's HENAN province and North China's Inner Mongolia have contracted with the ministry to gain information about the project. The canals are designed to take 38-48 billion cubic meters of water from Yangtze River annually. About 30-35 billion cubic meters will be available for industries, urban areas and for irrigation in North China upon completion of the canal. This great project is expected to be launched the next year This project demands huge amount of raw materials and equipments including steel, cement, metal pumps, pipe lines and machinery. Even the laid off workers will get the share. They are considered as the most important potential resource for the service companies as the canal would run through HENAN province and North China's HEBIE province where state owned enterprises have redundant staff.
I'm not entirely certain how to compare the two. Going by length, it's not even a contest: the Great Wall is over ten times longer than the Grand Canal. However, by total volume, which is perhaps a better measure of how much work was required to build it ... I can't actually find any figures for this, but I suspect the Grand Canal may be larger.