Red Flag Canal
红旗渠
Located at the juncture of the three provinces of Henan, Shanxi and Hebei and in the north of Linzhou City 61 kilometers away from Anyang City, the Red Flag Canal was dug on preapitous rock faces and sheer cliffs in Taihang Mountains by people of Linxian County in 1960. Red Flag Canal is 70 kilo-meters long, 4.3 meters high and 8 meters wide with a water diversion capacity of 18. 3 cubic meters/second.Red-Flag Canal is a monument to the industry and wisdom of Linzhou people created since the birth of PRC, valuable both in the material sense and the spiritual. Traditional Chinese virtues of cooperation, solidification, creation and sacrifice, manifested in this project by Linzhou people, were widely admired everywhere in China. "The new-born China has two wonders: the Yangtze River Bridge in Nanjing and the Red Flag Canal in Linxian County ( now called Linzhou) " , Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai told his foreign friends proudly in the 1970s. With a h.igh reputation at home and abroad, it is known as " manmade river in heaven" and. "today’s Great Wall"
红旗渠构筑位于豫、晋、冀三省交界处'距安阳市林州县北部61千米远。红渠是1960年林县人民在太行山悬崖峭壁上盘山开凿的。长达70千米，渠高4.3米，宽8米，引水量18.3立方米／秒，是新中国林州人民勤劳与智慧的结晶，它不仅是一笔巨大的物质财富，而且是一笔巨大的精神财富。在此工程中，林州人民体现出的自力更生，艰苦创业，团结协作，无私奉献的优良传统美德和感人精神，受到世人的称赞而广为传颂。20世纪70年代周恩来总理曾自豪的告诉国际友人，“新中国有两大奇迹，一个是南京长江大桥，一个是林县（现名林州）红旗渠”。红旗渠在国内外享有很高的知名度，被誉为“人造天河”、“当代万里长城”