Yangtze

British  

/ ˈjæŋktsɪ, ˈjæŋtsɪ /

noun

1. Also: Yangtze Kiang.   Chang Jiang.   Chang.  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 taking several years thereafter. Length: 5528 km (3434 miles)

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The funds raised by Yangtze Memory Technologies, or YMTC, should boost its production and mark another step in China’s efforts to reduce its reliance on foreign chip technology as the global artificial intelligence competition intensifies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

In the intervening months, the department added back to the list chip companies Yangtze Memory Technologies and ChangXin Memory Technologies, which in the February version had been removed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

"When they were both down at the docks waiting on their sons coming back from the Yangtze incident, the newspaper had taken their photo," Bannister said.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

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

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