ZHANG Nian-qiang 1, 2, TAN Xu-ming 1, WANG Ying-hua 1, WAN Jin-hong 1

1. Department of Water Hazard Research, IWHR, Beijing 100048, China
2. Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China

Abstract: In recent years, with the promotion of the Grand Canal applying for world cultural heritage process, several departments have cooperated to protect ancient water conservancy projects of the Grand Canal comprehensively. Value exploration and evaluation are the basis of protection for canal projects. Based on characteristics of ancient water conservancy projects of the Grand Canal, value evaluation index system on canal projects is built through revising existing standards, and quantitative evaluation method for canal projects is proposed. As a case study, ancient water conservancy projects of the Grand Canal in Dezhou city is evaluated quantitatively.

Key words: the Grand Canal, value evaluation, ancient water conservancy project, analytic hierarchy process

Published in: Journal of China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (Vol. 10 No. 2, 2012)