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Extract from the Dujiangyan Travel Guides: There's enough to hold you for a half a day at
DUJIANGYAN
(formerly
Guanxian
), a large town 60km northwest of Chengdu reached from either Ximen or the north bus stations (8). It was here in 256 BC that the provincial governor,
Li Bing
, set up the
Dujiangyan Irrigation Scheme
to harness the
Min River
, a notoriously capricious tributary of the Yangzi. Li designed a three-part engineering project using a central dam and artificial islands to split the Min into an inner flow for irrigation and an outer channel for flood control. A spillway directed and regulated th...
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