NOUN
- the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai
How To Use Yangtze River In A Sentence
- The greatest threats to marine mammals are being caught in fishing nets or being struck by shipping vessels, although for the Yangtze river dolphin, pollution is a major contributor.
- That was before the Ghezouba Dam was built on the Yangtze River in the early 1980s, cutting off the sturgeon's migratory path, just as it did for the critically endangered Chinese paddlefish .
- The Yangtze River falls into the East China sea.
- More than 870,000 workers have been deployed to fight the floods and reinforce dykes along the Yangtze river.
- The billets for these Russian soldiers were at No.6 the Bund, previously the P&O Banking Corp (now the Yangtze River Navigation Co building).
- The surface of the Qingshui River used to be covered from bank to bank with fir trees which were being floated downriver to ports along the Yangtze River and then transported overland to Beijing, Nanjing and Xi'an.
- For example, China's Yangtze river dolphin and the solenodons of Hispaniola and Cuba, are the last surviving representatives of entire families of mammals, yet are unfamiliar to both conservationists and the public, and are frequently overlooked by current conservation initiatives.
- Yangtze River Delta: From " Processing Workshop " to " World Factory
- The dam is in Hubei province, to the east of Sichuan and Chongqing, and water flow has surged over warning levels after the upper reaches of the Yangtze River started flooding.
- The city of Nanjing's second bridge across the Yangtze River features the first use of an epoxy asphalt deck pavement in China and one of the longest cable-stayed spans in the world.