Nearly 4,000 miles long, the Yangtze has watered civilizations for millennia—and laid waste to them too. The eighth-century poet Li Bai wrote that navigating the river was "even harder than ...

An aerial drone photo taken on March 21, 2025 shows the Tuotuo River in the source region of the Yangtze River in northwest China's Qinghai Province. Photo: Xinhua An aerial drone photo taken on ...

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 ...

An aerial drone photo taken on March 17, 2025 shows a bridge on Yuandang Lake linking Wujiang District of Suzhou City in east China's Jiangsu Province and Qingpu District of east China's Shanghai.

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 ...