Three more ancient Chinese water conservancy projects are included on World Heritage List

Almaty. October 12. Silkroadnews - Three more ancient Chinese water conservancy projects are included on World Heritage List, information portal People’s Daily reported.
“Another three Chinese ancient water conservancy projects were included on the world irrigation engineering project heritage list at a meeting of the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID) held in Mexico City on Oct. 10, CCTV.com reported,” the publication says.
The list included facilities in Shaanxi Province, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Fujian Province, bringing the total number of ancient Chinese irrigation projects on the World Heritage List up to 13.
It is reported that since 2014 ICID has chosen irrigation projects that are better than other projects of the same time in terms of engineering design and construction technologies. The list includes projects that are at least 100 years old.