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Canals can serve a variety of purposes:

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irrigation, navigation, defence, water-power, flood mitigation, land-drainage and water-supply.

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The following are areas of technology which may be of significance:

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The lining and waterproofing of the water channel;

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The engineering structures of the line with reference

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to comparative structural features in other areas of architecture and technology;

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Canals can serve a variety of purposes:

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irrigation, navigation, defence, water-power, flood mitigation, land-drainage and water-supply.

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The following are areas of technology which may be of significance:

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The lining and waterproofing of the water channel;

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the engineering structure of the line with reference

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to the comparative structure features in other area of architecture and technology

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The canals contribute to the economy in a variety of ways,

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in terms of economic development and the conveyance of goods and people.

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Canals were the first man-made routes for the effective carriage of bulk cargoes.

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Canals played and continue to play a key role in economic development

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through their use for irrigation.

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The following factors are important.

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So the national buildings, industrial development, development of engineering,

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skill apply to other areas and industries, and also tourism, agriculture, development,

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and generation and wealth.

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So the building of canals had, and the operational continues to have social consequence.

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The redistribution of the wealth with social and cultural result.

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And the movement of people and the interaction of cultural groups.

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 Such large-scale engineering works had and continue to have an impact on the natural landscape.

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Related industrial activity

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and changing settlement patterns cause visible changes to landscape forms and patterns.

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So I will talk about two examples, silk road, the routes network of the Changan Tianshan corridor.

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The next one relate to the canals is a grand canal.

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So for the cultural routes,

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the silk road routes network of Changan Tianshan corridor is about

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five hundred kilometers section of the extensive six road network

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stretching from the Changan Luoyang,

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the central capital of China in the Han and Tang dynasties,

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to the Zhetysu region of Central Asia.

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It took shape between the 2nd century BC and 1st century AD

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and remained in use until the 16th century,

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linking multiple civilizations and facilitating far-reaching

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exchanges of activities in trade, religious beliefs, scientific

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technological innovation, cultural practices and the arts.

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The thirty-three components included in the routes network include capital cities

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and palace complexes of various empires and Khan kingdoms,

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trading settlements, Buddhist cave temples, ancient paths, posthouses, passes, beacon towers,

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sections of The Great Wall, fortifications, tombs and religious buildings.

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Well, it is nice based on the civil  criterion, for instance criterion two.

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So, I'm not going to talk about all this criterion,

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just you can scan about the context of the criterion based on the criterion two

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and criterion three and also criterion five and criterion six.

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Well, in terms of the in other examples,

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The Grand Candles It formed the backbone of the Empire’s inland communication system,

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transporting grain and strategic raw materials, and supplying rice to feed the population.

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By the 13th century it consisted of more than 2,000 km of artificial waterways,

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linking five of China’s main river basins.

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It has played an important role in ensuring the country’s economic prosperity

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and stability and is still in use today as a major means of communication.

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So the Grand Canal also based on civil outstanding universal value.

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I'm not going to talk about all these videos

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just have a glance issues on screen based on the criterion one.

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So in this section, I talk about the two important issues, linking about the cultural routes.