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 ...

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 ...

The source of the Yangtze River lies to the west of Geladandong Mountain, the principal peak of the Tanggula Mountain chain in the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, southwest of China. The river flows from ...

The visit would be his first trip to the eastern Chinese city since November 2023. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more ...

East China's Jiangsu province, on April 20, 2025. [Photo/VCG] An ecological barrier and a golden waterway, the Yangtze River plays an important role in China's socioeconomic development.

The membership of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gives us an idea of which countries we’re talking about ...

Spends three nights in Beijing, four nights cruising the Yangtze River aboard a Victoria Cruises vessel, two nights in Xian and three nights in Shanghai. From $2,499 per person, double.

Trends in travel ebb and flow like a mighty river -- in this case, China's Yangtze, the longest river in Asia and the third longest on Earth. The completion in 2015 of China's massive Three Gorges ...

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 ...

and a navigable length of more than 70,000 kilometers which makes the Yangtze River the major water transport artery between west and east. The river used to be a natural barrier between north and ...

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 ...