What do you know about the Yangtze River?
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wat r trivers? and u can learn about rivers in history. i have a REALLY good social studies teacher who told me that geo and history and very closely related. we learned bout the st lawerence river in history class!\n\nand bout the yangtze river...\nThe Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia and third longest in the world. The headwaters of the Yangtze are situated at an elevation of about 16,000 feet in the Kunlun Mountains in the southwestern section of Qinghai. It flows generally south through Sichuan into Yuanan then northeast and east across central China through Sichuan, Hubei, Auhui, and Juangsu provinces to its mouth, 3,720 miles, in the East China Sea north of Shanghai. The river has over 700 tributaries but the principal tributaries are the Hun, Yalong, Jialing, Min, Tuo Jiang, and Wu Jiang. The climate ranges from 96 degrees in the summer to cold, brisk temperatures in the winter. Precipitation is high due to the height of the mountains.  \nChina covers an area of almost 3.7 million square miles and is the most populous country on earth having more than one billion people. The bordering countries include Mongolia, Kazakhstan, India, Nepal, Burma, Vietnam and Korea. The People's Republic is led by Chinese Communist Party and governed by the State Council. The main language spoken is the Mandarin dialect of Chinese but there are more than 150 languages and dialects spoken throughout the country. Approximately 350 million people inhabit the region of the Yangtze. There is plenty of wildlife along the river as well which include the Tibetan antelopes, Mongolian gazelles, and snow leopards, just to name a few.  \n\nWaters of the Yangtze are often used for rice and wheat irrigation. It also has enormous and inexhaustible hydroelectric resources. In 1995 construction began on the Three Gorges Dam near Yichang and is scheduled for completion in 2009. The dam will measure about 600 feet and about 1.5 miles wide. The dam is expected to help control the flooding of the Yangtze River Valley. The Three Gorges (the Qutang Gorge, the Wuxia Gorge, and Xiling Gorge) will also be the largest electricity generating facility in the world. The hydroelectric generators will provide 1/9 of China's total power output. \n\nThere is a lot of controversy surrounding the construction of the dams. There are 140 villages, 1,600 factories and over 80,000 acres of growable land that will be destroyed. It may also cause animals to become extinct. The area is very prone to earthquakes because it lies directly on a fault line. Actually, the plateau and gorges were created by collision of the Indian-Australian plate, drifting northward, with the Eurasian plate that began over 40 million years ago and continues today. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n      Snaking its way 6,300 kilometres from western China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the East China Sea, the Yangtze River stretches nine provinces and serves as a drain for 695,000 square miles of land.  It is less in length only to the Amazon and Nile, and spans so many regions that it has acquired half a dozen names.  In the high Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the Tibetans title it Dri Chu—Female Yak River.  The Chinese in the area know it as Tongtian He, Travelling-Through-the-Heavens River.  Where it borders Sichuan and runs through Yunnan, it is referred to as Jinsha Jiang, River of Golden Sand.  Often the word Wanli prefixes the common Chang Jiang (Long River), designating it Ten Thousand Li River. Only in the lower reaches does this great flood go by its name common to foreigners: Yangtze. \n\n        For over two centuries the Yangzte has served as a transportation highway and commercial thoroughfare.  Ocean-going vessels can navigate up the river for 1000 km and steamers can travel as far as Yichang, 1600 km from the sea.  A quarter of China’s ocean-going cargo enters the river between Shanghai and the sea.  Shanghai is known as the gateway to the Yangzte, spanning the Huangpu tributary just south of the
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http://www.virtualcentre.org/en/res/industrial.htm\n\nhttp://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/EASTASIAPACIFICEXT/EXTEAPREGTOPENVIRONMENT/0,,contentMDK:20515211~menuPK:502915~pagePK:34004173~piPK:34003707~theSitePK:502886,00.html\n\nhttp://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/36587/story.htm\n\nhttp://www.acca21.org.cn/pp6-6.html\n\nhttp://www.chinadaily.com.cn/home/index.html\nhope those help,
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This site has useful information.\nhttp://www.transboundarywaters.orst.edu/publications/atlas/atlas_html/foreword/internationalAgreements.html
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Ganges\nClick to learn more...\n (găn´jēz) or Ganga  (gŭng´gä) , river, c.1,560 mi (2,510 km) long, rising in the Gangotri glacier in the Himalayas in Uttaranchal state, India, and flowing generally southeast through NE India across a vast plain to the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh; the most sacred river of Hindu India. The fertile Ganges plain is one of the world's most densely populated regions; rice, grains, oilseed, sugarcane, and cotton are the main crops. Because of its location near major population centers, however, the river is highly polluted.\n\nThe upper Ganges supplies water to extensive irrigation works. The river passes the holy bathing sites at Haridwar, Allahabad (where the Yamuna River enters the Ganges), and Varanasi. Below Allahabad the Ganges becomes a slow, meandering stream with shifting channels.\n\nThe lower Ganges is joined by the Brahmaputra River W of Dhaka, Bangladesh, to form the Padma, its main channel to the sea. The united rivers branch into many distributaries, forming the vast and fertile Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, which stretches from the Hugli River on the west to the Meghna on the east. The delta region covers roughly 25% of India's total territory and supports upwards of 300 million people. The delta's southern fringe, a great wilderness of swamp, dense timber forest, small islands, and tidal creeks, is known as the Sundarbans; it has been the site of land reclamation projects. This low-lying area has repeatedly suffered great devastation from cyclones and coastal flooding. Calcutta, India, and Chittagong, Bangladesh, are the delta's main seaports.\n\nThe above comes from the 1st site I have given you.  I hope this helps
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Check out this link for the answer to your question:\n\nhttp://www.wannasurf.com/spot/Asia/Taiwan/index.html
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It is not true statement:One river in China actually goes up stream,instead of downstream.!!!\nlooba
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There's a page that covers this here (http://www.urbanedpartnership.org/target/units/river/tour/hist.html)
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The Mekong River and the annual monsoon rains I would have thought.\nThey are beneficial as all water resources are in irrigation and Industry, especially in that region of  the flooding of rice paddys.\nI know in S.E. Asia they have up to three rice crops harvested every year. Vietnam used to be called the rice bowl of Asia.
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The Huang He is the world's fourth-longest river at 3,395 miles. Its source is the Kunlun Mountains, in western China. Its mouth is the Gulf of Bohai. \nThe river is called the Yellow River, named for the color of the silts that are carried downstream in its flow.
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http://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/lehrmann/pdf%20papers/Yang%20&%20Lehrmann%202003.pdf\n\n\nhttp://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/sciences/geography/staff/harrist/landev/lect20notes.htm\n\n\n\nHope this helps!
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Hi, Ishan,\n\nsee below some useful links. One is a news story about China's creeping deserts (BBC link); however, with climate change this is also seriously affecting E. Africa, where one can almost watch the dunes moving.
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i hope these links will help u.\nhttp://www.chinatoday.com/\nhttp://www.chinapage.com/china.html\nhttp://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/welcome.html
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As with manyy damns, there is controversy over the costs and benefits of the Three Gorges Dam. Although there are economic benefits from flood control and hydroelectric power, there are also concerns about the future of over 1.9 million people who will be displaced by the rising waters[2], the loss of many valuable archaeological and cultural sites, as well as the effects on the environment.\n\nSun Yat-sen first proposed building a dam on the Yangtze River in 1919 for power generation purposes and the National Defense Planning Commission under the Kuomintang made the first survey of the proposed site in 1932, but the idea was shelved due to unfavorable political and economic conditions. Major floods resurrected the idea and the PRC government adopted it in 1954 for flood control.\n\nThe amount of power generated by the dam in 2009 was originally anticipated to supply about 10% of China's electricity needs, but with China's rapidly growing economy it is only projected to produce approximately 3% at the end of 2006[4]. In fact, the dam is predicted to produce 18.2 million kilowatts of electricity. According to a recent Discovery Channel special on the Three Gorges Dam, it will supply enough electricity to power a city four times larger than Los Angeles. That is a lot of energy\n\nCities such as Shanghai need ever-increasing electricity. With 26 hydro turbines generating up to 18 gigawatts of electricity—the equivalent of roughly eighteen coal power stations or 11,000 barrels of oil per hour—the Dam will help reduce this power shortage.
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The Three Gorges Dam is ready to hold water on June 1 as scheduled. The water is supposed to reach 135 meters in 15 days. During this period, the water rising will exert some influence on the navigation-\nThis is from a website detailing the project:\nI will say that this website is a bit of cheerleading- the seismic worries are not resolved, and cannot really be any more than those same worries in the San Andreas Fault.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_River
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Good answer mofu.   Local convention is the determining factor though - whoever grew up next to said watercourse will have a conventional way of talking about it, regardless of anyone's "definition".   In Scotland there are lots of rivers that the local Brazilian population regards as miniscule little streams.   In Brazil there are rivers that I would say are virtually the sea.
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The Chinese River Dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer) is a freshwater dolphin found only in the Yangtze River in China.