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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He labelled rogue bankers as "half-wits" and said the dams and flood dykes lining the Yangtze River were as "flimsy and porous as tofu dregs".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 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
They focused on the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, two areas that are home to several megacities and key industrial zones.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2025
The hassle was worth it for Bev and John Martin, who documented their trip on YouTube showing sights such as a neon-lit food street and the Yangtze River aerial tram.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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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