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Yangtze or Yangzi: see Chang Chang (chăng) or Yangtze ..... Click the link for more information. . Yangtze the longest river in China, rising in SE Qinghai province and flowing east to the East China Sea near Shanghai: a major commercial waterway in one of the most densely populated areas of the world. The Three Gorges dam near Yichang, the world's biggest hydroelectric and flood-control project, was begun in 1994 and the dam was completed in 2003, with filling expected to take several years thereafter. Length: 5528 km (3434 miles) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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I pushed the dam, along with the towers and the cranes still being used to build it, up as high as I could in the picture to allow as much room as possible for the roiling waters of the Yangtze River to underscore my point. While the Yangtze River, China's longest, is less defiled with only 28 percent of its water being graded undrinkable, its conditions are rapidly deteriorating. Three Gorges is a coffee table book of black-and-white photography capturing the land, the people, and the natural beauty of the Three Gorges on the Yangtze River in central China. |
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