Yangtze River

Cultural  

1. River in China, flowing from the highlands of Tibet in western China generally eastward through central China and emptying into the Pacific Ocean at Shanghai.

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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.

Example Sentences

Just like the tourists perched above, visitors in the boats below try to get the ultimate snap: the vertical landscape looming over the Yangtze River in shades of electric blue, magenta and red.

From BBC • May 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

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

Andrew Law, a sociologist at Newcastle University in the U.K., has used lidar mapping to digitally preserve structures along China’s Yangtze River that were threatened or wiped out by extensive damming.

From Slate • Jul. 25, 2025

On February 6, 2006—a year and a week after he’d crossed the frozen Tumen River into China—Shin arrived in Hangzhou, a city of about six million in the Yangtze River Delta.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden