Cotton cropping systems in China, such as the patchwork of farms along the Yangtze River Valley, are quite different from the large-scale systems used for cotton in the US and Australia.

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 about half of all the fish eaten in ...

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 ...

Researchers from Wuhan Botanical Garden, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Rice University analyzed global distribution records of 142 plant species in the Yangtze River Valley and found ...

[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 rare river dolphin may be one step closer to extinction as scientists fail to count any of the endangered species along China’s Yangtze River.

Technical staff conduct inspection 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 ...

marking a milestone in the construction of the high-speed railway tunnel beneath the Yangtze River. [Photo by Gao Erqiang/chinadaily.com.cn] The world's largest shield machine for railway ...

“China firmly opposes any party reaching a deal at the expense of China’s interests,” China’s Commerce Ministry said in a ...

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 ...