The Yangtze River starts at he Jianggendiru Glacier on the southwestern foothills of the 6,621-m, snow-covered Geladandong, the main peak of the Tanggula Mountains I southwestern Qinghai Province.

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 ...

The Yarlungzangbo River in Tibet, which flows first ... most of which are found on the Middle-Lower Yangtze Plain and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Freshwater lakes mostly lie in the former area ...

The river Yangtze flows for 6,300 km, more than halfway across China. Its river basin is around 1.8 million sq km - almost a fifth of China's land area ...

The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau occupies an enormous area of Asia and is known as the Roof of the World, owing to an average ...

In a significant stride toward heritage preservation, Zhangye in Northwest China's Gansu province has embarked on the "Two ...

Since 2004, with the support of the Ministry of Culture, China Federation of Literary & Art Circles and other concerned organizations, Zhangjiagang Municipal Government has successfully held ...

The River Yangtze startson the Tibetan Plateau,in Qinghai province,and ends in Shanghai.In the olden days before moderntransport,this was the main route for productsto be sent from province to ...