Wuxi webcam. Beijing-Hangzhou Canal
Wuxi is one of the largest cities in China's Jiangsu Province, lies at the bottom of the Yangtze River, 128 km from Shanghai and 183 km from Nanjing.
The name of the city sounds very interesting in Russian. From the Chinese word "wu" literally translates as "no tin". And before the tin mines were not worked out to the end of the city had another name and sounded as "Yuxi", which in Chinese translates as "is tin".
The city of Wuxi is a major industrial center.
The Grand Canal of China is a navigable canal in China, one of the oldest currently operating hydraulic structures of the world (VII-XIII c). Currently, it is one of the most important inland waterways of China, connecting the country's major ports of Shanghai and Tianjin. The length of the channel - 1782 km, and with the branches in Beijing, Hangzhou and Nantong - 2470 km. The width in its narrowest part in Shandong and Hebei provinces is 40 m, in the widest part in Shanghai - 3500 m.
The depth of the fairway is 2 to 3 m. The canal is equipped with 21 locks. The canal connects the Huanghe and Yangtze rivers, including the beds of such rivers as the Baikhe, Weihe, Sishui and others, as well as several lakes.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Canal (Wuxi section) has a total length of 40.6 kilometers from Dayao Road behind the South Gate to Shuanghejian behind the North Gate.
