The 128-storey, 632-meter-high Shanghai Tower is the world's third tallest ... The Three Gorges Dam in China's Yangtze River is the world's largest power station in terms of installed capacity ...

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 ...

This hill used to be an important military fortress together with Tortoise Hill on the opposite bank of the Yangtze River. The best-known site on the hill is perhaps the Yellow Crane Tower ...

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 ...

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 ...

This story appears in the March 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. There is excellent cell phone coverage at the bottom of the Yangtze River, although Huang Dejian is one of the few ...

The bridge design features a main span of 1,600 meters with a dual-tower, single-span steel box ... infrastructure project, the Hannan Yangtze River Bridge will enhance regional transportation ...

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 ...