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Yellow River

noun

  1. Chinese name: Hwang Hothe second longest river in China, rising in SE Qinghai and flowing east, south, and east again to the Gulf of Bohai south of Tianjin; it has changed its course several times in recorded history. Length: about 4350 km (2700 miles)

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She was born and raised in Tibet until 1982, when her family moved to Henan, a bustling province in the valley along the Yellow River.

From BBC

Zhengzhou, in northeastern China on the banks of the Yellow River, was an enthusiastic early adopter of the sponge city concept, spending hundreds of millions of dollars building related projects from 2016 to 2021.

One connected to the Yangtze River Valley, and another to the Yellow River valley in China.

"The Yangtze River and the Yellow River will not flow backwards."

From Reuters

The plant, which is ringed by high-rise apartment complexes on the southern bank of the Yellow River, was set up for the production of vaccines to prevent brucellosis.

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