It is endowed with a favorable geographical location - the Yangtze River (Changjiang ... Nanjing is one of the six famous ancient capitals of China, the others being Xi'an, Beijing, Luoyang ...

The Yangtze, 6,300 km long, is the largest river in China, and the third largest in ... The Yellow River valley was one of the birthplaces of ancient Chinese civilization. It has lush pasturelands ...

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 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 ...

Native to China’s Yangtze River, the Chinese paddlefish was thought ... including those of ancient Chinese emperors. Overfishing caused their populations to decline drastically in the latter ...

Every year, these prehistoric fish journey some 2,000 miles from the East China Sea to their spawning grounds in the Yangtze River. Or, at least they used to. In recent years, this ancient ...

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 ...