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In the China Daily article Flow of history Chitralekha Basu and Song Wenwei travel to Yangzhou, looking for the origins of the ancient Grand Canal – the world’s longest man-made watercourse.

Some seven hundred years ago, Christian merchant and traveler Marco Polo, who introduced Europeans to Central Asia, visited Yangzhou of East China’s Jiangsu Province. To commemorate this special envoy, a memorial hall in the name of Marco Polo has opened to the public. Find out more in the CNTV Culture Express Story Memorial hall remembering Marco Polo open to public in Yangzhou.