Kiang live for up to twenty years in the wild.

To the south, it merges into the Yangtze Plain.

The Yangtze River Delta became the first industrialized area in China.

Just a year later the Yangtze flooded, causing something like 5,500 deaths.

Yangtze River The worst period of flooding was from July to August 1931.

It is the longest bridge of this design, surpassing the Wushan Yangtze Bridge.

In July alone, four weather stations along the Yangtze River reported rain totaling over for the month.

In 1861 he traveled up the Yangtze River in China, going further than any Westerner before him.

Already, in the Yangtze and Pearl River Deltas, where manufacturing activity is the densest, labor shortages have appeared.

He traveled in the valleys of Yangtze River and Sichuan in 1934, then, the following year, in Kwang If and Guangdong.

The Ming dynasty that governed this part of East Asia and the agrarian settlements along the Yangtze river valley and the Yellow river valley, historically very strong.

On its descent from the roof of the world, the Jinsha River, tributary of the mighty Yangtze, cascades through this ten mile gorge on its way to Shanghai and the East China Sea.

The name of the city literally means silver river the character for river () is the same as that in Sichuan, but not as those in, for example, the Yellow River () or Yangtze River ().

This reversal is consistent with the pattern established elsewhere, including on the Yangtze China temporarily suspends a controversial plan after major protests in order to buy time while public passions cool, before resurrecting the same plan.

A peasant in the Yangtze Valley in the late seventeenth century had a different style of life than his or her contemporary peasant in the Thames Valley, but not one that was clearly better or worse.

A rapid decline in exports has caused the closure of thousands of factories in the Pearl River and Yangtze River deltas, and tens of millions of unemployed migrant workers are now returning to their hinterland provinces.

The White Ribbon campaign also featured the letters of some Singaporean male leaders and AWARE partners which were written to provide guidance and mentorship to boys and for young people to realize that men should speak up against gender violence. One of the letters was written by health practitioner Poh Kiang.

Death toll and damage Chinese sources usually indicate the death toll of the Yangtze River overflow at about 145,000, with flood damage affecting around 28.5 million, while most Western sources give a far higher death toll of between 3.7 and 4 million people.

Early civilizations arose first in lower Mesopotamia (3500 BCE), followed by Egyptian civilization along the Nile (3000 BCE), the Harappan civilization in the Indus Valley (in present day India and Pakistan 2500 BCE) and Chinese civilization in the Yellow river and Yangtze river(2200 BCE).

(g) Transfer of newly developed water release and conservation chemical agents to the Nile Valley, the Yellow River and Yangtze River basins, the Amdaya Valley, the Ganges River, Arab Gulf countries, and the Sahelian and north Africa regions for carrying out large scale planting and landscaping