Guo Qingshan was on a hike in his hometown of Yichang when he stopped to take a photograph of a cliff overlooking the Yangtze River.

The largest river in China and the third largest river in the world, the 6,300-kilometer-long Yangtze River plays an important role in China. The Yangtze River basin – with its fertile soil ...

A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means more than 400 million people) live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides about half of all the fish eaten in ...