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More than half a century ago, China built the first modern bridge across the Yangtze River in Wuhan. In the early 90s, it was ...
LHASA, May 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese engineers extracted a 38.1-meter-long concrete core sample from a dam on Sunday. While setting a new national benchmark for core sampling in similar arch dam types, ...
So much of China's past lies on the Yangtze ... the scale of change and construction the Chinese are going through," says photographer Linda Butler, who visited the river eight times between ...
To help China address these challenges, the World Bank approved a $150 million loan in 2019 for the Forest Ecosystem Improvement in the Upper Reaches of Yangtze River Basin Program. Implemented in ...
Researchers looked at poetry dating as far back as the Tang dynasty to find that the Yangtze finless porpoise’s range has ...
marking a milestone in the construction of the tunnel beneath the Yangtze River for a high-speed railway. Such progress also means that the China-developed, 148-meter-long shield machine ...
On April 9th, 16.64m diameter TBM “Jianghai”, designed and developed by China Railway Construction Heavy Industry Corporation ...
According to NASA scientists, the huge amount of water held back by the dam has shifted the distribution of Earth’s mass.
The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.
The Yangtze is China’s longest river, and it is an important home for fish and other animals. A government report says the river’s health is improving. But there is still a long way to go to ...