The largest river in China and the third largest river in the world, the 6,300-kilometer-long Yangtze River plays an important role in China. The Yangtze River basin – with its fertile soil ...

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 ...

[Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] As spring's warmth washes over the junction of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in Tongling, Anhui province, it's no longer rare to see ...

This story appears in the March 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. There is excellent cell phone coverage at the bottom of the Yangtze River, although Huang Dejian is one of the few ...

Much more effort needs to be put into keeping the estuary of China’s longest river healthy, according to a declaration made in Shanghai today by the main Yangtze overview body. Shanghai, China — Much ...

The construction site of the Rongshan Yangtze River Bridge in Luzhou, southwest China's Sichuan Province, April 22, 2024. Photo: China News Service The construction site of the Rongshan Yangtze ...

The Yangtze River, the longest waterway in China, saw further improvement in its water quality in 2023 as the country continued its efforts to protect this river, an official said. This was reported ...

Japanese documentary director Ryo Takeuchi (left), Chinese Ambassador to Japan Wu Jianghao (center), and Cimu, a Tibetan protagonist of Takeuchi's documentary film The Yangtze River, attend a ...

Despite a last-ditch effort to save the species, it was a case of too little too late. Now experts are focusing their efforts on another species in the Yangtze River – the finless porpoise - a close ...

The study, led by a specialist in emerging contaminants at The James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen, tested sediments at 38 ...

21 (Xinhua) -- A total of 15.46 million mu (about 1 million hectares) of afforestation has been completed across 11 provinces and municipalities along the Yangtze River Economic Belt so far this ...