CHINA has many good reasons not to build the $5.2 billion Xiaonanhai dam on the Yangzi river in Chongqing. The site, on a gentle slope that moves water along only slowly, is not ideal for ...

We may not have seen the fabled three gorges that are the Yangzi River’s highlights the way we had expected on our three-night cruise, but it was still quite an experience, and one shared with ...

The short answer is that the country’s urban sprawl has been expanding much faster than its drainage infrastructure ... after a massive flood along the Yangzi river killed thousands of people.

Leshan lies at the confluence of three tributaries of the Yangzi river. Centuries ago its residents ... to use expensive land to create natural drainage systems such as parks and ponds.

But the Nanjing Yangzi River Bridge is just that: A bridge of revolutionary proportions both technologically and politically. Construction started under the guidance of engineers from the Soviet ...