{"id":99210,"date":"2026-04-20T14:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=99210"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:01:13","slug":"key-facts-about-yangtze-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/key-facts-about-yangtze-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Yangtze River"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Yangtze River Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China recently completed an 11.18-km-long high-speed underwater tunnel beneath the Yangtze River, enabling bullet trains to run at speeds of up to 350 kmph. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Yangtze River<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Yangtze River, known in China as the <\/span><b>Chang Jiang or Yangzi,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the <\/span><b>longest <\/b><b>river<\/b><b> in both China and Asia <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the <\/span><b>third-longest river in the world<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> after the Nile River and the Amazon River.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is also considered the <\/span><b>longest river<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to <\/span><b>exclusively flow within the borders of a single nation.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>6,300 kilometers long.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Course<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>begins <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the mountains of <\/span><b>Tibet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>runs through mountains <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">for <\/span><b>most of its length.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Near the end<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of its course, it <\/span><b>flows through wide, low plains.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 700 streams and rivers flow into the Yangtze.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Yangtze <\/span><b>empties into the East China Sea near Shanghai<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in <\/span><b>east-central China.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has <\/span><b>eight principal tributaries. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On its left bank, from source to mouth, these are the <\/span><b>Yalung, Min, Jialing, and Han <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rivers; those on the right bank include the <\/span><b>Wu, Yuan, Xiang, and Gan rivers.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Yangtze has been an <\/span><b>important traffic route since the 1200s. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The river <\/span><b>connects inland and coastal ports with major cities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including <\/span><b>Nanjing, Wuhan, and Chongqing.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its<\/span><b> basin is China\u2019s great granary.<\/b> <b>Nearly half of China\u2019s crops <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are grown in this area.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Yangtze basin provides about<\/span><b> half of all the fish eaten in China.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Industries and farming there<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> contribute as much as <\/span><b>40% of China&#8217;s whole economy.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The region is also responsible for the housing of 400 million people, about <\/span><b>one-third of the country\u2019s population.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many of <\/span><b>China&#8217;s largest cities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including <\/span><b>Shanghai, Wuhan,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Chongqing<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, are situated along the river.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/china-completes-11-km-underwater-tunnel-beneath-yangtze-river-bullet-trains-to-run-at-350-kmph-speed-10644972\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yangtze River is the longest river in both China and Asia and the third-longest river in the world after the Nile River and the Amazon River. 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