Shaanxi irrigation district given global recognition By Xin Wen in Xi an | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-12-28 19:27 Share CLOSE
The Longshou Canal and Ancient Luohe River Irrigation district in Shaanxi province has been granted world heritage status as a World Heritage Irrigation Structure recently, marking the third such designation in Shaanxi since 2016, according to local authorities.
World Heritage Irrigation Structures are named by the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage
, which is an international scientific non-governmental organization established in 1950, according to its official website. It has 78 members worldwide, covering over 95 percent of the irrigated area of the world.
The Longshou Canal and Ancient Luohe River Irrigation district is located in Weinan city of Shaanxi province. Historical records showed it was built during the rule of Emperor Wu during the Han Dynasty (156-87 BC). Th
Water facilities in ancient Guangdong listed By Zheng Caixiong in Guangzhou | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-12-10 18:42 Share CLOSE
The Mulberry Garden Dikes project, or Sangyuanwei, in Foshan, Guangdong province, was listed as the World Heritage Irrigation Structure by the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage in Morocco on Wednesday.
The project, the largest agricultural river dike hydraulic engineering project in the Pearl River Delta, is the first irrigation project in Guangdong to be listed by ICID as a world heritage irrigation structure. The project is also the first world irrigation project heritage with river dike water conservancy facilities as the main focus in China.