Our target: Nantong, 430 miles to the south. On paper the Grand Canal runs 1,100 miles, between Beijing and the southern metropolis of Hangzhou. But for nearly four decades the top half of its ...

The Gongchen Bridge is a historical stone arch bridge over the Grand Canal in Gongshu district in Hangzhou, Zhejiang. [Photo provided to China Daily] In Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris ...

together to explore different cities along the Grand Canal. Their itinerary includes stops in Ningbo, Shaoxing, and Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, Suzhou, Yangzhou, and Huai'an in Jiangsu province ...