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	MSN Encarta - Yangtze
		Yangtze or Chang Jiang, river in China, the longest river of Asia and the third longest river in the world.
		The Yangtze flows a total distance of 6,300 km (3,900 mi), from the Tibetan Plateau in the west to the East China Sea in the east, forming China’s principal navigable waterway and a natural boundary between what is traditionally considered northern and southern China.
		The mountainous Upper Yangtze is the course from the headwaters in western Qinghai Province to the city of Yichang in Hubei Province.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761573429/Yangtze.html (1041 words)

	Yangtze River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yangtze River (Chinese: 扬子江; pinyin: Yángzǐ Jiāng) is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world after the Amazon in South America and the Nile in Africa.
		The Yangtze flows into the East China Sea and was navigable by ocean-going vessels up to a thousand miles from its mouth even before the Three Gorges Dam was built.
		The Yangtze is home to (at least) two critically endangered species: The Chinese River Dolphin and the Chinese Alligator.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yangtze (732 words)

	Yangtze River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Yangtze River is the longest river of Asia, about 6300 km (about 3937 mile) in length.
		Among the principal cities on the Yangtze, in addition to those cited in the foregoing, are Wuchang, Nanjing, Hanyang, and Anqing (An-ch'ing).
		Although the entire river is known as the Yangtze River to foreigners, the Chinese apply that designation only to the last 480 or 645 km (300 or 400 mi) of its course, the portion traversing the region identified with the Yang kingdom (flourished about 10th century BC).
	www.china-cruise.com /Yangtze.htm (519 words)

	Yangtze River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Yangtze River Basin, an area of 1.8 million square km is a region of tremendous economic importance.
		The Central Yangtze refers to the section of the river basin from Yichang in Hubei province to Hukou in Jiangxi province.
		The Central Yangtze is affectionately known as China 's home of rice and fish in recognition of its fertile soils and the bounty of its rivers.
	www.panda.org /about_wwf/where_we_work/asia_pacific/where/china/yangtze_river/index.cfm (307 words)

	Welcome to the Yangtze Hotel... The First E-Commerce and Internet-Ready Hotel in Shanghai...
		The Yangtze River, known in Chinese as the Chang Jiang, is the third-longest river in the world, surpassed only by the Amazon and the Nile.
		The Yangtze Hotel, designed by renowned architect Li Pan and completed in 1934 was, at the time, the third largest hotel in the Far East.
		The Yangtze Hotel, the first Internet and E-Commerce ready hotel in Shanghai, with its 183 elegant guestrooms, state-of-the-art conference rooms and business centre, recreation facilities, and distinctly styled restaurants serving a wonderful array of delicious cuisines, is the natural choice for visitors to Shanghai.
	www.e-yangtze.com (236 words)

	Yangtze Telecom Corporation - Home Page - Sun Oct 16, 2005
		Yangtze's new service, the Credit Information System, is targeting businesses in China with registered capital of at least $1 million RMB, estimated to number in the millions.
		Yangtze Telecom's rapid geographical expansion of its SMS services will continue this year with the Company planning to actively market its services in at least eleven provinces during 2004.
		Yangtze Telecom is committed to satisfying the growing demand of China's mobile subscribers for a wide variety of SMS services.
	www.yangtzetelecom.com (752 words)

	China Studies Curriculum - Yangtze
		The Yangtze River is the third largest river in the world reaching a length of almost 4,000 miles from the headwaters (the start of the river) to the mouth of the river on the East China Sea near the city of Shanghai.
		This part of the Yangtze and the connecting Mini Three Gorges are considered by some to be the most beautiful sites in the world, having inspired poets, artists and song writers for thousands of years.
		Yangtze is actually not the term used by Chinese prople.
	www.indstate.edu /chinaeduc/yangtze.html (4364 words)

	Yangtze Repertory Theatre of America, Inc.
		Yangtze's 1997 production of "Between Life and Death," a Beckettian play by Gao Xingjian (commissioned by the French Ministry of Culture), was the only play by that author ever produced in America before Mr.
		Before starting Yangtze Rep, she was Co-founder and Artistic Director (1970-77; 83-92) of the Four Seas Players in NYC and Artistic Director of the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, the "national" theater of the former British colony (1986-90).
		Yangtze Rep has been funded by the New York State Council on the Arts (since 1994), the Alliance of Resident Theaters/New York (since 1995), the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (1999 to 2001), New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (since 1997) and the Asian American Arts Alliance (in 1998).
	www.yangtze-rep-theatre.org /whoweare.htm (2356 words)

	The Yangtze’s collision course (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Yangtze, which runs 2,400 miles from Tibet to the Pacific Ocean has long been one of the most heavily populated places in China.
		The most dramatic illustration of the Yangtze’s dilemma was the flooding that occurred in the summer of 1998, the largest for 50 years.
		Quite aside from the noisy debate over the dam, is the quiet rise of contamination from industry and chemical fertilizer run-off along the Yangtze.
	www.msnbc.com /news/307055.asp (1014 words)

	Yangtze cruise
		At the end of the Yangtze Cruise is the capital city of Hubei province, one of many historic cities dating back to the Eastern Han dynasty.
		The Yellow Crane Tower is among the monuments from the past and the Yangtze River Bridge the first bridge to cross the river in the modern age.
		The 6300 kilometres long Yangtze River is the longest river in China and the third longest in the world.
	www.chinaholidays.co.uk /yangtze-cruise (532 words)

	Orion > Orion Magazine > November \| December 2003 > Stephen Benson
		The Daning River, a tributary of the Yangtze, is one of the scenic canyons being flooded by the Three Gorges Dam, now the largest concrete object on the planet.
		The Yangtze's people once believed that the floods that vexed them were caused by dragons, and that a pagoda built on a hilltop could protect a town from being swept away.
		A trip up the Yangtze two months before work began on the final section of the dam revealed a farmhouse with its thatched roof gone and only dry remnants of last year's crop left in the fields.
	www.oriononline.org /pages/om/03-6om/Yangtze.html (1320 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Trouble on the Yangtze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Yangtze River, with its long and storied place in the epic history of China, is host to a domestic controversy unlike any other in the nation – a mammoth water project that will fully submerge over 150 towns.
		The source of the Yangtze is the Plateau of Tibet, and it should come as no surprise that events inside both Tibet and China play a large role in the current controversy involving the river.
		One thing is certain: The Yangtze – feared for millennia by the Chinese as an uncontrollable dragon – is finally being tamed by the dam's construction.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=23735 (1106 words)

	China - Beijing, The Yangtze and Xian
		The idea of a dam across the Yangtze was first mooted earlier in the last century, primarily to alleviate the regular, devastating flooding in the lower reaches of the river.
		By 2009 the water level in the Yangtze behind the dam will have risen by 175 metres (575 feet) and the reservoir that is formed will back up some 375 miles to Chongqing.
		Like its sister river, the Yellow River to the north, the Yangtze carries enormous quantities of silt from its upper reaches and its colour is a consistent murky brown.
	www.number19.plus.com /china (1115 words)

	The Water Page - Yangtze River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Snaking its way 6,300 kilometres from western China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the East China Sea, the Yangtze River stretches nine provinces and serves as a drain for 695,000 square miles of land.
		Yangtze’s origin (elevation 4900 m), the Tibetan Plateau has mighty glaciers and enduring snows which continuously melt into the Yangtze.
		The Yangtze River Water Resources Committee reported that 23.4 billion tons of sewage and industrial waste were dumped into the Yangtze in 2000.
	www.thewaterpage.com /yangtze.htm (2959 words)

	Yangtze River
		The Yangtze River (or, "Changjiang" in Chinese, literally, the "long river"), is the longest river in China, running 6,300 kilometers (3915 miles).
		The Yangtze is open to navigation all the year around.
		It lies in a basin in northern Hunan province to the south of the Yangtze River and is connected to the river.
	depts.washington.edu /chinaciv/geo/yangtze.htm (184 words)

	H.M.S. Falcon - Royal Navy Gunboats in China and the Far East
		The Yangtze is a perilous river with multiple rapids and a water level that is entirely dependant on the seasons and weather.
		The water in the Yangtze is deep enough for destroyers and sloops to sail from Shanghai to Hankow all year round.
		HMS Snipe and HMS Nightingale served on the Yangtze (it is conceivable that Snipe may have later served on the West River).
	www.hmsfalcon.com (6438 words)

	Yangtze Cruise
		We’ve been booking Yangtze River cruises for a long time, and we know the area, the ships and the people who operate them.
		We stay up to date, so we’ve got all the latest information on the Yangtze River, the 3 Gorges Dam and the surrounding area, local knowledge and a lot of experience.
		Yangtze sights and attractions, the towns and villages and their people, culture and history, and of course the stunning scenery
	www.yangtzeriver.org (244 words)

	Yangtze Cruises, Inc - Yangtze river scenery, ships, schedules, tours, news, FAQ, Photos, maps, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Yangtze Cruises, Inc - Yangtze river scenery, ships, schedules, tours, news, FAQ, Photos, maps,...
		Check uniquely created files based on our daily consulting work, answering most common questions from a Yangtze cruiser.
		"Farewell to the Yangtze Three Gorges" has been there in ads for almost 20 years.
	www.yangtzecruises.com (176 words)

	Yangtze River Cruise From Chungking To Wuhan In China Photos.
		When the new Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is completed, many of the scenes shown in these photos of a cruise down the Yangtze river, will have forever disappeared.
		The cruiser was on its maiden voyage down the Yangtze River, through the Three Gorges and the Gezhouba Dam to Wuhan.
		The livelihood of a farmer in a small isolated dwelling on the steep banks of the Yangtze River, seemed to depend on what he could harvest from the river itself and the surrounding mountains.
	chinadan.com /08yangtze/page01.html (624 words)

	Yangtze Council
		Nantong, in Jiangsu province, lies on the northern bank of the Yangtze River estuary, opposite the metropolis of Shanghai.
		and a population of 7.8 million of whom 600,000 are in the urban areas, Nantong is an important economic centre of the Yangtze basin, a key communications hub linking the south and north of Jiangsu province and a modern industrial and trading city.
		The largest economic centre in the upper region of the Yangtze River, it encompasses an important industrial and commercial region.
	www.yangtzecouncil.org (468 words)

	Yangtze River Cruise Through Three Gorges From Chungking to Wuhan.
		Yangtze River Cruise Through Three Gorges From Chungking to Wuhan.
		The Yangtze River Cruise passed through the Three Gorges and the Gezhouba Dam.
		Isolated cottage of Chinese farmer perched on cliff of Yangtze River.
	beifan.com /013yangz/13yangtze-cruise.html (530 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Before the Deluge: The Vanishing World of the Yangtze's Three Gorges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Chetham, a director of Harvard's prestigious Asia Center and an expert on the area, paints a pulsating picture of the great river, the countryside, the people and their occupations, the amazingly fluid political philosophies and the sheer endurance of all parties, past and present, involved with the overwhelming project.
		Of the nearly 1500 towns that will be submerged when the project is complete, the author focuses on a handful that she knows well from her experiences as a river guide and lecturer.
		The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An Account of Journeys in China, Chiefly in the Province of Sze Chuan and Among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory (VI) by Isabella Bird on 4 pages
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312214170?v=glance (1394 words)

	CNN - As Yangtze River dam rises, questions arise - May 8, 1998
		FENGJIE, China (CNN) -- This small city, an ancient cultural center along the Yangtze River in central China, is doomed to disappear as the world's largest dam takes shape.
		Damming the Yangtze -- the world's third-longest river -- will create a reservoir 365 miles (600 km) long.
		Critics also point out that pollution in Chongqing -- where countless streams of raw sewage already pour directly into the Yangtze -- could become even worse when the river is dammed and pollutants cannot be flushed to the sea.
	www.cnn.com /EARTH/9805/08/china.doomed.river (490 words)

	The Yangtze delta (from Yangtze River) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The Yangtze delta, which begins beyond Chen-chiang, consists of a large number of branches, tributaries, lakes, ancient riverbeds, and marshes that are connected with the main channel.
		More results on "The Yangtze delta (from Yangtze River)" when you join.
		The Middle Yangtze Plain comprises parts of northeastern Hunan, southeastern Hupeh, and north-central Kiangsi provinces, including Tung-t'ing, P'o-yang, and Hung lakes.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-48042?tocId=48042 (883 words)

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