If you're a kayaking enthusiast, the Yangtze River Gorges in China provide the perfect dramatic setting to explore ancient ...

The Yangtze River (Changjiang), over 6,300 kilometers long, is the largest and longest river in China, and the third-longest in the world, next only to the Nile in northeast Africa and the Amazon in ...

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 ...

which has been anchored for the past eight years in a lagoon near the Yangtze River in Nantong, Jiangsu province, caught fire ...

Chinese authorities issued more flood warnings for China’s Yangtze River on Friday, as heavy rains were forecast in provinces in the country’s south. At least 141 people have died or are ...

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 ...

Author Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) observed that, “The Yangtze River is wide, but it is not a sea,” in his “Choko Yuuki” (Travels on the Yangtze) when he traveled up this river ...