New Bian Canal

…another waterway, also called the New Bian Canal, was built as part of the water conservancy project for the Huai River basin. Construction of the New Bian Canal began in 1966 and was completed in 1970 and engaged the efforts of some 450,000 labourers. About 250 km (155 miles) long,…

…to work on the New Bian Canal north of the Huai, although development in the south still continued. By the early 1970s the Huai’s northern tributaries had been joined to the New Bian Canal, which provided more effective flood control in the northern Huai plain. From the early 1980s the…