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 ...

The Tarim River, 2,179 km long, in southern Xinjiang is China's longest interior river. The Yangtze, 6,300 km long, is the largest river in China, and the third largest in the world, next only to ...

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 ...

China's most fertile farmlands are located in the north and southeast, close to major water supplies such as the Sichuan Basin and the Yellow and Yangtze ... sea and river ports are located ...

The flow of water through the planet’s nearly 3 million rivers is changing rapidly, with potentially drastic implications for ...