WORLD HERITAGE / FUTURE STEWARDS
The Grand Canal
How can a bag of grain connect cities?
Grain, water engineering and cooperation
Understand its history and value
The Grand Canal links Beijing and Zhejiang. Its historically developed waterways carried grain and materials. Its value lies in water engineering and the organisation needed to sustain it.
See the relationships today
Follow a grain journey through water, infrastructure, rules and riverside life. Distinguish historical remains, continuing use and later changes when reading the canal today.
Turn the future into a question
How could transport, water ecology and everyday life be considered together? How might different places share responsibility for one waterway?
Choose one question. Record a fact, a source and an uncertain judgement, then map the people, resources and rules involved.
Use the observation worksheetRead and verify
UNESCO World Heritage Centre — The Grand Canal
Historical summary: the heritage entry above. Present and future questions are cfatoday editorial learning perspectives. Citing a source does not imply a partnership.