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	Yangtze River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yangtze River or Chang Jiang is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world after the Nile in Africa and the Amazon in South America.
		Traditionally, the upstream part of the Yangtze River refers to the section from Yibin to Yichang; the middle part refers to the section from Yichang to Hukou, where Boyang Lake meets the river; the downstream part is from Hukou to Shanghai.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yangtze_River (1649 words)

	Yangtze Service Medal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yangtze Service Medal is a decoration of the United States military which was created in 1930 for presentation to members of the U.S. Navy and United States Marine Corps.
		The Yangtze Service Medal is awarded for service in the Yangtze River Valley between the dates of September 3, 1926 and December 31, 1932.
		The Yangtze Service Medal was declared obsolete in 1940 when it was replaced by the China Service Medal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yangtze_Service_Medal (165 words)

	Ancient cities discovered in Yangtze Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		China's Yangtze River was once home to an ancient civilisation, just as the Nile, the Tigris-Euphrates and the Indus rivers were, according to new archaeological research.
		The discoveries show that exactly the same process of urbanisation and state formation was taking place in China in the same river valley environment and in roughly the same period that similar developments were occurring in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley.
		Indeed the Yangtze area was one of the first in the world to produce pottery - an amazing 13,000 years ago.
	www.mirabilis.ca /archives/000960.html (212 words)

	Proceedings of the second international symposium on the management of large rivers for fisheries: Volume I
		The Yangtze valley is the most developed freshwater fisheries area in China, with abundant fish resources and long history of fisheries.
		Between 1949-2000 the Yangtze annual fish catches fluctuated between 0.10 and 0.44 million tonnes (Figure 3) and the average annual catch for this period was 0.25 million tonnes.
		In order to enhance the Yangtze valley fishery it is necessary to establish and strengthen fishery administration agencies at various levels in the Yangtze valley, to formulate better fisheries laws and regulations and to enforce them.
	www.fao.org /docrep/007/ad525e/ad525e0c.htm (3471 words)

	Young Water Action Team \| Knowledge Base \| River Basin Report: Yantze River
		Yangtze Kiang is the name given by the Chinese, meaning Long River and that’s what the Yangtze is with 6300 kilometre length.
		For many years the catchments-area of the Yangtze was used to produce as lot food as possible and on a small piece of fertile ground for as many people as possible.
		The Yangtze is a real sedimentation-river, it brings much sand and sediment what only sediments when the rate of flow is not too high.
	www.ywat.org /knowledgebase/riverbasins/as-yantze.html (1212 words)

	PEM \| Yangtze Remembered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The legendary beauty of China’s Yangtze River and the effect of a massive dam project on the river and its people are the focus of a new exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum.
		Butler's photographs provide a portrait of a place thriving in the midst of "serenity and chaos." In the introduction to a handsome book that accompanies the exhibition, Butler writes she "was astonished by the rapidity of change" caused by the dam.
		The landscape "changed so dramatically that it was barely recognizable: large hills were removed, and rivers were filled with rubble." Her richly defined fl-and-white images give a sense of the majestic nature of the Yangtze River and the culture of the people who have inhabited its banks for millennia, despite the rugged terrain.
	www.pem.org /exhibitions/exhibition.php?id=38 (896 words)

	About Yangtze River - the longest river in China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia and third longest in the world.
		The headwaters of the Yangtze are situated at an elevation of about 16,000 feet in the Kunlun Mountains in the southwestern section of Qinghai.
		Waters of the Yangtze are often used for rice and wheat irrigation.
	www.chinaodysseytours.com /yangtzecruise/river.htm (454 words)

	Yangtze River Patrol and Other US Navy Asiatic Fleet Activities in China, 1920-1942 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Division 3 was engaged in patrolling the Yangtze.
		The Nanking Government now controls only the area adjacent to the lower Yangtze Valley; Manchuria is uncertain; Canton is again estranged; and the country, in the face of the havoc wrought by floods and warfare, is called upon to support the largest number of troops that has ever been under arms in China.
		The Yangtze Patrol, augmented by destroyers of the Asiatic Fleet, and the Houston, flagship of the commander in chief, cooperated with United States consular officials at Hankow and Nanking, rendering assistance in those areas, and standing by to evacuate United States nationals.
	www.history.navy.mil /library/online/yangtze.html (9685 words)

	Sichuan Travel / Chengdu / Jiuzhaigou - Nine-Village Valley/ Yangtze River Gorges
		As it is a remote place with unusually charming scenery and few inhabitants, it is often called the "wonderland on earth." The valley, surrounded by snow-capped mountains, is covered with luxuriant primitive forests and dotted by more than a hundred lakes and ponds of various sizes.
		The valley is home to a great variety of plants and rare animals, such as the giant panda, lesser panda, golden monkey, and antelope.
		The Three Gorges of Yangtze River extend 193 kilometers from the western Baidicheng in Sichan Province, to Nanjinguan of Yichang city in Hubei Province in the east.
	www.chinatravelhub.com /REGIONS/Sichuan01.htm (956 words)

	International Rivers Network: Three Gorges
		The Yangtze River Commission is interested in expanding cooperation with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
		The total surface area of lakes in the middle and lower Yangtze valley has shrunk from 18,000 square kilometers 50 years ago to 7,000 sq km today due to sedimentation and reclamation.
		Yangtze commission officials acknowledged to estoff that simply continuing to build bigger and better dikes, as the Chinese have been doing for more than a thousand years, is ultimately futile.
	www.irn.org /programs/threeg/index.php?id=archive/991228.usemb.html (1443 words)

	Schiller Institute- 3 gorges Dam in China -- TVA on the Yangtze River
		The fertile Yangtze basin, including the great delta region formed by the sediment from the Yangtze River, produces 40 percent of China's grain, 33 percent of its cotton, 48 percent of its freshwater fish, and 40 percent of the total industrial output of the country.
		In the latter half of the year, the Yangtze River Water Conservancy Commission began to study plans to strengthen the embankments, to create retention basins on the plains and in the lake regions, and to construct dams in upstream mountain valleys for flood regulation.
		Traversing the Yangtze River, it is plain what the government's plan for resettlement is. Above almost each settlement, or small town of old, and often dilapidated houses and small industries, entirely new cities are appearing, near the tops of the mountains.
	www.schillerinstitute.org /economy/phys_econ/phys_econ_3_gorges.html (12815 words)

	Flooding Continues
		Continued rainfall in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River is expected to bring more flood water through the affected areas downstream and pose a threat to the weakened dikes.
		The crops most affected this year by the flooding are rice and cotton in the Yangtze River Valley and soybeans and corn in the Northeast.
		Flood waters in the Yangtze are not expected to completely recede until the end of October.
	www.fas.usda.gov /pecad2/articles/chfld2.htm (1784 words)

	Yangtze River Cruise
		The Yangtze is the longest river in China and the third longest river in the world.
		Day excursions are also part of the each Yangtze river cruise, they vary a little bit due to the direction your travel and company running the boat, all however, enable you to enjoy the sites and sounds of this magnificent river.
		Booking a Yangtze river cruise is essential, as this is a major tourist attraction for the Chinese and the overseas visitor.
	www.travel-the-real-china.com /yangtze-river-cruise.html (929 words)

	Climate Prediction Center - Special Assessment - Yangtze River flooding: July-August 2002
		The Yangtze River Valley extends from the Tibetan Plateau to eastern China and is the third longest river in the world.
		Monthly rainfall in the catchment basin of the Yangtze River (approximated by the red-boxed region in Fig.
		The second anomalous circulation feature associated with the Yangtze River flooding is a trough and strong wind shift line at 850-hPa extending east-to-west across southern China approximately coincident with the Yangtze River (Fig.
	www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov /products/expert_assessment/china2002/china_mongolia.shtml (1203 words)

	Washingtonpost.com: China Special Report
		As the waters from China's worst flood since 1954 recede in the Yangtze River valley, many people here are hoping that last summer's disaster will become a turning point for China -- a warning to the world's most populous country that it can no longer ravage its environment as it rushes to modernity.
		During this year's floods, the Yangtze's flow peaked at less than 2 million cubic feet per second, a rate it had surpassed 23 times since 1949, Chinese statistics say.
		Sichuan is a key to the Yangtze because clear-cutting in its mountains means erosion and floods downstream.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/china/stories/enviro112298.htm (1239 words)

	Three Gorges Probe - Triple threat to the Yangtze
		According to the Yangtze Valley Water Bulletin, as much as 28.8 billion tonnes of industrial wastewater and domestic sewage went directly into the river untreated in 2004, about 41 per cent of all such discharges into China's rivers.
		Water quality in both the Yangtze mainstream and tributaries is deteriorating because of the dual pressure of unchecked pollution and reduced environmental capacity.
		Yangtze water will be transferred not only from south to north but also from south to south.
	www.threegorgesprobe.org /tgp/index.cfm?DSP=content&ContentID=15590 (782 words)

	Yangtze Patrol: American Naval Forces in China: A Selected, Partially-Annotated Bibliography: Books / Monographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		This book, one of several that she wrote, is her last great travel book and documents the Yangtze Valley at the beginning of the twentieth century.
		Her big adventure was a trip of fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze River thru the land of the bandits, and the terrible gorges of the upper river, to Chungking.
		Their presence on the Yangtze proved less a source of private profit than a source of public policy dilemmas; they deepened American involvement in China at a time when political turmoil suggested that withdrawal from the river trade was the wiser course of action.
	library.nps.navy.mil /home/bibs/yangtzebooks.htm (9164 words)

	Energy Needs and History Clash in China \| Penelope Grenoble O'Malley \| Orion
		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 (1326 words)

	Wuhan tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Wuhan is also known as one of China's "Three Furnaces" due to the incredible heat pervading in the summer months.
		With the development of the Yangtze Valley, Wuhan is booming and becoming more significant due largely to local authorities' efforts to promote it as a premier business and commercial destination.
		Wuhan's most famous Buddhist temple with 400-year history, the temple houses a collection of rare sutra, a jade Buddha and 500 gilded Arhats, the main attractions are statues of Buddha's disciples in an array of comical poses.
	www.chinaodysseytours.com /city/wuhan/index.htm (271 words)

	Probe International - Three Gorges Probe Issue 19 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		At present, passage between the Yangtze's Yichang and Chongqing ports is hazardous for large vessels, and the cost of shipping through this stretch has traditionally been more than double the cost downstream of Three Gorges.
		The 423-kilometre river, situated at the southwestern end of the Hubei Province, is the Yangtze River's second largest tributary and an important transportation waterway for Hubei province.
		Approved by the State Planning Committee on Dec.17, 1999, the Shuibuya project was planned and designed by the Yangtze Valley Planning Office, which has also been responsible for the planning and design of the Three Gorges dam since the 1950s.
	www.probeinternational.org /probeint/ThreeGorges/tgp/tgp19.html (1597 words)

	The Three Gorges Project
		The Yangtze River is the longest river of Asia, stretching 6,300 km (3,900 miles) in length from East to West across China.
		the river passes through the spectacular Yangtze Gorges, which are noted for their natural beauty but are dangerous to shipping.
		The dam is expected to help control the flooding of the Yangtze River valley; in addition, river flows will make the Three Gorges complex the largest electricity-generating facility in the world.
	www.worldsat.ca /image_gallery/gorges/gorges_main.html (209 words)

	Damming The Three Gorges - Chapter One - The Struggle to Publish Yangtze! Yangtze! in China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		By 1970, the Yangtze Valley Planning Office was ready for the main channel of the Yangtze and construction began on China’s largest hydroelectric dam built to date — the Gezhouba Dam.
		By 1983, the Yangtze Valley Planning Office had completed a feasibility study recommending that a 175-metre-high dam with a 150-metre reservoir level be built with construction beginning in 1986.
		The waters of the Yangtze and the Columbia commingle inevitably in the Pacific.
	www.probeinternational.org /pi/documents/three_gorges/Damming3G/ch01.html (5359 words)

	Introduction to National Irrigation History
		From and after the Sui Dynasty (581-618) and the Tang Dynasty (618-907), with the shift of the economic center from North China to South China, Farmland Water Conservancy in the South developed rapidly and surpassed that in the North.
		The center of Farmland Water Conservancy Building was reset in Yangtze River Valley and Huaihe River and extended southwards, where are hilly and Pond Water Conservancy system was rapidly developed upon its original achievements.
		The dyked fields in the lower reach of Yangtze River, especially those in the area along the riverbank in Anhui Province and the Taihu River Basin had gained obvious development.
	www.fao.org /waicent/FAOINFO/Agricult/agl/swlwpnr/reports/y_ea/z_cn/en/text_e/k30101.htm (1091 words)

	CNN - As Yangtze River dam rises, questions arise - May 8, 1998
		Damming the Yangtze -- the world's third-longest river -- will create a reservoir 365 miles (600 km) long.
		Unknown consequences for the river's marine life, a vital source of food in the valley.
		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)

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