Red Flag Canal

The Red Flag Canal is a system of channels and tunnels cut into the Taihang Mountains at Linzhou, in Anyang's western county-level city, and the reason the county calls itself the birthplace of Red Flag Canal spirit. Linzhou's government summary dates the digging to the 1960s and describes the county's subsequent trajectory as four stages: fight the Taihang, go out of the Taihang, prosper from the Taihang, beautify the Taihang. A 2026 municipal protection and utilisation plan sets out who maintains what: the canal service centre is responsible for the main canal, the first, second and third branch canals across 239 km of channel; the canal group is responsible for the Youth Cave section of the main canal between stake numbers 24+030 and 28+260; and the protection range for the main canal, the three branch canals and the ten great works extends 208 metres outwards from both banks.