The section from Yangzhou to the river mouth used to be known as the Yangtze. In its lower reaches, the Yangtze River is wide and deep: 18 kilometers wide near Nantong, and 80-90 kilometers wide ...

In the Xiba section of the Yangtze River located in Yichang city, central China's Hubei province, conservation photographer Yang He captured a rapid series of shots as a Yangtze finless porpoise ...

There is speculation its advanced electromagnetic catapults could be put to the test, and that it could be ready for delivery ...

Wetlands in the Middle Yangtze River Basin (MYRB) are facing significant ecological challenges due to climate change and ...

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 ...

Most of the large rivers have their source on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and drop greatly between source and mouth ... is China's longest interior river. The Yangtze, 6,300 km long, is the ...

As the first town along the Yangtze River's entry into Hunan province, Dongshan township exemplifies how balancing nature and economic development can forge a sustainable, prosperous future for ...

Native to China’s Yangtze River, the Chinese paddlefish was thought ... It had a long, silver-gray body and a very large mouth. With poorly developed eyes, the fish fed with its mouth open ...

Biqiong Wu is at the Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Yangtze and Hydroelectric Science, China Yangtze Power Company, Yichang, China. China’s Yangtze River is the longest in Eurasia and the ...