Yangtze River
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At about four thousand miles, it is the longest river of China and of Asia.
Also called the Chang.
A major east-west trade and transportation route in China.
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Xiao first encountered the fossil about five years ago when a collaborator sent him a photo of a specimen uncovered along the Yangtze River in China.
From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026
A refugee from the Sino-Japanese War who fled mainland China to Hong Kong, he started a business in 1950 manufacturing plastic flowers and named it Cheung Kong after China's Yangtze River.
From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026
ZPMC’s crane-building empire is based on Changxing Island in an estuary of the Yangtze River.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 28, 2025
Chinese scientists are in a battle to save one of the last large animal species living in the Yangtze River – and a complete ban on fishing in the region is helping them.
From BBC • Aug. 20, 2025
Some or all of these centers may actually comprise several nearby centers where food production arose more or less independently, such as North China’s Yellow River valley and South China’s Yangtze River valley.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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