The project to introduce into the forest from the Taihang Mountainside in 60 years is known as the "artificial Tianhe". The Red Banner Canal Project started in February 1960 and was completed in July 1969. It took nearly ten years. The project has leveled 1,250 mountain heads, erected 151 aqueducts, drilled 211 tunnels, built 12,408 buildings, dug 22.25 million cubic meters of earth and stone, and the total length of the main canal of the Red Banner Canal is70.6 kilometers.