New rules issued to protect waterway

HANGZHOU - A new regulation has been rolled out in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, to protect the city's section of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the world's longest man-made canal. The regulation was approved by the Standing Committee of the provincial People's Congress and took effect on Monday.

In June 2014, UNESCO listed the Grand Canal - whose history spans more than 2,400 years - as a World Heritage.

The 1,011-kilometer waterway from Beijing to Hangzhou, is the world's largest civil engineering project predating the Industrial Revolution.