Suzhou, Anhui: a retired watcher on the old Bian River
In Sixian, retired resident Zhang Yongping cycles beside the old canal, connecting a surviving waterway with decades of repair and protection.
Suzhou, Anhui.
An Anhui city tied to the ancient Bian River and the living canal landscape of Sixian.
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A stone “China Grand Canal” marker beside the waterway, shown in Suzhou’s official tourism feature on the Tongji Canal heritage section in Sixian.Photographer not credited on the source page · Rights unknown; selected under the established official-source policy Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Downloaded from the Suzhou Culture and Tourism Bureau site under “Travel Panorama > Suzhou Tourism.” The image appears within the section titled “Visit the World Heritage Tongji Canal site in Sixian” and shows a stone marker beside water. No photographer or image-specific open licence is listed; the page footer names the Bureau as sponsor and contains no linked reuse-restriction notice. Rights remain unknown, not licensed. Original retained privately, unretouched and not enlarged.