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It gave the local populace a healthy income and began two important elements in the city’s history, the predominance of the merchant classes and the use of barges for inland trade.
The Grand Canal is crowded with strings of barges laden with fruit and vegetables, construction materials, or coal.
Later, this was the waterway employed by imperial barges when the emperor desired an outing.
The river traffic is a motley flotilla of modern container ships and ocean-going junks — their sails the color of grime — of packed ferries and convoys of barges, warships, rusty coasters, and bobbing sampans.
Human-propelled ferryboats scurry out of the way as long trains of barges, their decks heaped up with onions, reeds, or bricks, labor past.