BEIJING - The ashes of beloved Comrade Jiang Zemin were scattered into the sea at the estuary of the Yangtze River on Sunday, in accordance with the wishes of Jiang himself and his family.

Jiang Zemin (his given name, Zemin, roughly means “benefit the people”) was born on Aug. 17, 1926, in Yangzhou, an ancient Yangtze River city northwest of Shanghai. His father, Jiang Shijun ...

the Yangtze River included, is simply beyond the realm of engineering." Zhang blames unfinished reservoir projects up river for the severe flooding in Sichuan and the area around the city of ...

From Beijing's point of view, the main selling points of the dam were power generation and flood ... The Yangtze is a good place to start. According to Jiang, shipping goods by river costs one ...

Dikes along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in central Hubei Province, are standing firm as the year's largest flood peak occurs, according to official reports. Hundreds of thousands of ...

China is confronted with the threat of big floods along the Yangtze River in the upcoming summer flood season, experts said. The conclusion is based on the high possibility of massive rainfall in ...

REUTERS/Carlos Barria BEIJING (Reuters) - Severe floods are expected on China's Yangtze River this year due to a strong El Nino weather pattern, state media said, raising the risk of deaths and ...

The upper reaches of the Yangtze River will be hit by more flooding, Minister of Water Resources Li Guoying said in a statement on the ministry’s website late on Friday.

Although the West recognizes it as the Yangtze, which is derived from the ancient fiefdom of Yang, the river also goes by Chang Jiang (Long ... Controlling flooding, as well as helping to make ...

China's biggest river, the Yangtze, and several of its tributaries ... By last week, 63 million people had been affected by floods, 12.7% higher than the average over the past five years, said ...

YICHANG, Hubei - The Yangtze River, China's longest, will brace for its largest flood peak so far this year due to continuous rainfall upstream, authorities said Friday. Water flow into the ...