A NOTED Chinese historian and geographer recently challenged the general belief that the terminal point of China's north-south Grand Canal is in Hangzhou, saying that it should be longer.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal should start from Beijing and end at Ningbo city instead of Hangzhou, said Prof Chen Qiaoyi with prestigious Zhejiang University, at a recent symposium on tourism in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang province.
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