The 20th-century novelist Pearl S. Buck dubbed it "the wildest, wickedest river" for its murderous floods. So much of China's past lies on the Yangtze; now, a trip along the river also affords a ...

The Yangtze River (Changjiang), over 6,300 kilometers long, is the largest and longest river in China, and the third-longest in the world, next only to the Nile in northeast Africa and the Amazon in ...

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 ...

One of Asia's busiest waterways needs help to restore smooth sailing and boost regional economies, experts say China's ...

[Photo/VCG] An ecological barrier and a golden waterway, the Yangtze River plays an important role in China's socioeconomic development. Accounting for 43.1 percent of the nation's total ...

The machine is used in the construction of the Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel in East China's Jiangsu province. The tunnel is a key project to forge a major trans-river road link under China's longest ...

Japan fears summer floods caused by global warming. In China, too, a series of floods occurred along the Yangtze River in the summer of 2020. And now, the switch from flooding to drought reminds ...