Lingqu Canal

The Lingqu Canal (simplified Chinese:灵渠; traditional Chinese:靈渠; pinyin:Líng Qú, often called the Magic Canal) is located in Xing'an County, near Guilin, in the northeastern corner of Guangxi Province, China. It connects the Xiang River (which flows north into the Yangtze) with the Li River (which flows south into the Gui River and Xijiang), and thus is part of a historical waterway between the Yangtze and the Pearl River Delta. It was the first canal in the world to connect two river valleys and enabled ships to travel 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) from the latitude of Beijing to Hong Kong.