Turpan's underground canal miracle — delivering Tianshan snowmelt to oases with zero evaporation loss, ranked alongside the Great Wall and Grand Canal as one of ancient China's three greatest engineering feats.
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underground vertical shafts and hidden channels in Turpan, drawing天山 glacier meltwater beneath the desert floor to keep water from evaporating, green oasis fields in the distance