The largest river in China and the third largest river in the world, the 6,300-kilometer-long Yangtze River plays an important role in China. The Yangtze River basin – with its fertile soil ...

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 ...

The river Yangtze flows for 6,300 km, more than halfway across China. Its river basin is around 1.8 million sq km - almost a fifth of China's land area ...

The Three Gorges Dam, located on the Yangtze River in Hubei Province, China, is the world’s largest hydroelectric project.

They’ve lived in China’s Yangtze River for perhaps 140 million years, and this relic of the dinosaur era is sometimes dubbed a "living fossil.” Chinese sturgeons can grow to enormous ...

The Yangtze river’s finless porpoise is one of the very few porpoises (relatives of dolphins and whales) that live in fresh water. Its small size and cute 'smile' make it much loved in China and ...

or the expenditure on R&D as a percentage of its gross domestic product, has outpaced the average of the Yangtze River Delta region to reach 4.2 percent, Gu said, adding that there are 3,319 ...

both from the remarkable personality of the writer and from the public interest recently directed to our projected “sphere of influence” in the Yangtze Valley. The greater part of the route fo ...

This photo taken on Jan 5, 2025 shows a Yangtze finless porpoise swimming near the lower reaches of the Gezhouba Dam in Yichang city, Central China's Hubei province. The Yangtze finless porpoise ...

In the first year after eruptions, monsoon precipitation globally significantly decreases, while precipitation in the Yangtze River Basin in China abnormally increases. There are inconsistent ...