The Yangtze basin provides about half of all the fish eaten in China, and two-thirds of the rice. Industries and farming there contribute as much as 40% of China's whole economy. This vast river – the ...

Known as Chang Jiang or "Long River" in Chinese, the Yangtze at 6,300 km is not only the longest river in China but in all of Asia. It is the third longest river in the world, next only to the ...

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 ...

and the Hanshui River, the longest tributary of the Yangtze River. With its numerous tributaries and lakes and large amounts of converging waters, the middle section of the Yangtze River accounts ...

Technical staff conduct inspection inside "Jianghai," a giant self-developed tunnel boring machine deployed for the construction of the Haitai Yangtze ... river road link under China's longest ...

making the longest migration of any sturgeon in the world. Every year, these prehistoric fish journey some 2,000 miles from the East China Sea to their spawning grounds in the Yangtze River.

Nearly 4,000 miles long, the Yangtze has watered civilizations for millennia—and laid waste to them too. The eighth-century poet Li Bai wrote that navigating the river was "even harder than ...

China on Wednesday deployed a giant self-developed tunnel boring machine (TBM) for the construction of the world's longest underwater ... of the Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel in east China's Jiangsu ...