Hongqi Canal, located in Linzhou City, Anyang City, Henan Province, is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction and a national key cultural relics protection unit, and is known as "the eighth wonder of the world". In the 1960s, people in Linxian (now Linzhou) built a project to pull Zhang from the waist of Taihang Mountain into the forest under extremely difficult conditions, which was called "Artificial Tianhe".
The Hongqi Canal Project 1960 started in February, and the auxiliary canal project 1969 was fully completed in July, which lasted nearly ten years. Project * * * leveled 1250 hill, erected 15 1 aqueduct, excavated 2 1 1 tunnel, built 12408 building, and excavated 22.25 million cubic meters of earth and stone. The total length of the main canal of Hongqi Canal is 70.6 kilometers. According to calculation, if these earth-rock barriers are built into walls with a height of 2 meters and a width of 3 meters, they can run through the north and south of the motherland, bypass Beijing and connect Guangzhou and Harbin.
20 16 10, hongqi canal was approved as a national 5A-level tourist attraction.
On June 20 17, 1, the Red Flag Canal was included in the list of national red tourism classic scenic spots. 20 17- 12 was selected as the first batch of national primary and secondary school students' research and practice education bases and camps by the Ministry of Education.