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 ...

It is also one of the richest temperate regions of the world in terms of biodiversity ... hectare site features sections of the upper reaches of three of the great rivers of Asia: the Yangtze (Jinsha) ...

Industries and farming there contribute as much as 40% of China's whole economy. This vast river – the biggest in Asia and third longest in the world – is also hugely important because of the variety ...

Central Asia’s two main waterways. But it adds that many of those two rivers’ high-mountain tributaries remain undeveloped. A ...