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

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 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 ...

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 world's largest shield machine for railway construction has reached the middle point of the tunnel's underwater section ...

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 ...

[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 ...

A staff member works inside "Jianghai," a giant self-developed tunnel boring machine deployed for the construction of the Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel, in Haimen, east China's Jiangsu Province on ...

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 ...