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Which province is Hongqi Canal located in?

Hongqi Canal is located in Henan Province.

Hongqi Canal, located in Linzhou City, Anyang City, Henan Province, is a national AAAAA-level tourist attraction and a national key cultural relics protection unit, and is known as "the eighth wonder of the world". In the 1960s, people in Linxian (now Linzhou) built a project to pull Zhang from the waist of Taihang Mountain into the forest under extremely difficult conditions, which was called "Artificial Tianhe".

Hongqi Canal takes Zhangzhuohe River as its source. The first place of the canal is under the back wall of Shicheng Town, Pingshun County, Shanxi Province. The total length of the main canal is 70.6 kilometers, the bottom of the canal is 8 meters wide, the wall of the canal is 4.3 meters high, the longitudinal slope is 1/8000, and the designed maximum flow rate is 23 cubic meters per second, all of which are dug at the waist of Taihang Mountain, where the peaks and peaks overlap. This project is both difficult and dangerous.

Historical significance:

The completion of Hongqi Canal has completely improved the poor living environment of Linxian people, solved the draught problem of 567,000 people and 370,000 livestock, irrigated 540,000 mu of cultivated land, and the grain yield per mu increased from 100 kg in the early days before the construction of Hongqi Canal to 199 1 year of 476.3 kg. Known as the "Canal of Life" and "Canal of Happiness" by Linzhou people.

People in Linxian County forged the "Red Flag Canal Spirit" of magnificent mountains and rivers in this earth-shattering and weeping great project construction. Hongqi Canal is not only a water conservancy project, but also a symbol of national spirit.