How the Yinsong Canal Reworked Lake and Farmland
Trace the Yinsong canal from the drainage and salinity problems of the Qian Gorlos irrigation district to its continuing role in fields, wetlands and water management.
Yinsong Canal (Songhua-to-Chagan Lake Diversion)
The Yinsong project is a major local waterworks route, not just a line on a map. Built over eight years, its 53.85-kilometre channel uses a natural elevation drop rather than pumping stations. Government accounts describe thousands of workers shaping the route by hand, after which the water system helped change access to irrigation in a county with a history of saline land and marshy low ground. This feature follows the canal as an engineered connection among river, lake, marsh and field, while keeping reported before-and-after agricultural statistics tied to their original dates.