The heart of this new country is the mountain-girdled upper valley of the Yangtze, an area approximately 1,000 miles from East to West and 1,300 miles from North to South.

Three months ago the Shanghai China Forum, radical weekly, made a survey, announced that Chinese Communists controlled 177 districts in eight provinces along the upper Yangtze.

The Yangtze sturgeon, an endangered species under first-class national protection, has been spotted in the upper stream of the Yangtze River in southwest China's Yunnan Province, the local ...

As flood No. 2 hit the upper Yangtze River, the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, China, saw its water level rise to over 544 feet on July 14. In response, the dam opened six floodgates, releasing ...

Drought and flooding in the vast Yangtze River Valley cost China more than 18 billion yuan (about US$2.25 billion) in economic losses last year. CHINA / National (Xinhua) ...

To help China address these challenges, the World Bank approved a $150 million loan in 2019 for the Forest Ecosystem Improvement in the Upper Reaches of Yangtze River Basin Program. Implemented in ...

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 ...

MA XUEJING/CHINA DAILY Sichuan province, located in the upper Yangtze River Valley in the southwestern part of China, does not share its borders with any country nor does it have a coastline.

In a paper published in Science China Earth Sciences, an international team of scientists propose an integrated approach to study flood variability in the upper reach of the Yangtze River over the ...

China’s Yangtze River, the longest waterway in Asia – and one of the busiest – has long suffered from choke points that hinder transport efficiency, and now calls are growing for major ...

A healthy Yangtze River is critical to China’s future, says Kirsten Schuijt, Director General of WWF International in her Foreword to the Living Yangtze 2022 report. The river basin is home to ...