The completion of the Red Flag Canal completely ended Linzhou nine droughts in ten years, water as expensive as oil in the history of suffering. Improved the people of Linxian County to rely on the rain of the poor living environment, by the people of Linzhou called "life canal", "happy canal".
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The Red Flag Canal project was started in February 1960, and the supporting works of the branch canals were fully completed in July 1969, which lasted for ten years. More than.
It to turbid Zhang River as the source, in Shanxi Province, Pingshun County, Shicheng Town, Houbi break under the dam cut off the flow of water into the Zhang River in Linxian (now Linzhou). In the extremely difficult construction conditions, Linxian people rely on self-reliance, the spirit of hard work, to overcome the difficulties, fighting in the Taihang Mountains above the cliffs, dangerous canyons, mountain holes, ditches and bridges, flattened 1250 hills, set up 151 ferry tunnels, cut 211 tunnels, construction of a variety of buildings 12,408, digging and masonry up to 22.25 million cubic meters.
If these earth and stones were built into a wall 2 meters high and 3 meters wide, it could stretch across the north and south of the motherland, connecting Guangzhou with Harbin.
Linxian people in the construction of this amazing world, the great project, forging a strong "Red Flag Canal spirit". The Red Flag Canal is not simply a water conservancy project, it has become a symbol of the national spirit.