Here’s how big the Yangtze is. A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means more than 400 million people) live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides ...

precisely to lessen the risk of devastating flooding along the Yangtze, a perennial problem in China since ancient times. The river’s basin accounts for nearly half of China’s agricultural ...

Accordingly, Sichuan has completed the "7 plus 5" international rail-sea network, and has been operating trans-border railway ...

Every year, these prehistoric fish journey some 2,000 miles from the East China Sea to their spawning grounds in the Yangtze River. Or, at least they used to. In recent years, this ancient ...

It is endowed with a favorable geographical location - the Yangtze River (Changjiang ... Nanjing is one of the six famous ancient capitals of China, the others being Xi'an, Beijing, Luoyang ...

Biqiong Wu is at the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Yangtze and Hydroelectric Science, China Yangtze Power Company, Yichang, China. China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the ...

2025 shows the Tuotuo River in the source region of the Yangtze River in northwest China's Qinghai Province. Photo: Xinhua An aerial drone photo taken on March 22, 2025 shows the Qumar River in ...

Wetlands in the Middle Yangtze River Basin (MYRB) are facing significant ecological challenges due to climate change and ...

The Yangtze River, the longest river in China and the third-longest river in the world, flows through the mountainous area. After Guo’s photo went viral, many people shared photos of the view ...

Sichuan province, located in the upper Yangtze River Valley in the ... that the road to Shu (the ancient name of Sichuan) is more dangerous than that to the sky. China's economy has developed ...