Scientists have found what could be geological evidence of a legendary flood tied to the establishment of the first dynasty in China, Xia, and even the beginning of Chinese civilization, a study published in the U.S. journal Science said Thursday.
More rains are forecasted in the Yangtze River Basin on Wednesday, mostly in the lower reaches, where 4 million people are involved in the fight against floods, including 100,000 soldiers.
Heavy rain has left 128 people dead and 42 others missing in five days, figures from the Ministry of Civil Affairs showed on Tuesday.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday expressed profound gratitude to China for discharging water from a hydropower station to the drought-hit countries along the Mekong River.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday that the country is facing severe drought and expresses his hope that China will continue releasing water into downstream Mekong River.
Two documents were passed Friday at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee presided over by General Secretary Xi Jinping.
The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture has activated an annual fishing ban along the Yangtze River, extending it from the usual three months to four months.
Fast growing and ever bustling, Singapore and Hong Kong are the two iconic cities in Asia that happened to share very similar routes of development. The story Singapore versus Hong Kong never fails to catch the attention of people in this region.
Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed ecology and "green development" in boosting the growth of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
It is learnt by the Economic Information Daily that preliminary framework of the Outline of Planning on Development Strategy of Yangtze River Economic Zone (the Planning Outline) which is one of the three major economic strategies in China, has already been finished and is likely to be issued before the end of this year, or even before the release of ‘thirteenth five-year plan’. To this respect, insiders indicate that Yangtze River Economic Zone is a significant axis band crossing eastern, middle and western parts of China and connecting the northern and southern China, likely to be ‘China’s economic backbone’.
More than 1,000 armed police officers have been dispatched to the site where a passenger ship carrying 458 people sank in the Yangtze River in central Hubei Province on Monday night.
The number of people affected by the record-high flood in Acre River in the northern Brazilian state of Acre reached 87,000, local authorities said Wednesday.
China's urbanization drive will create larger clusters of cities, in terms of economic power as well as size and population, according to experts.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday discussed building an economic belt along the Yangtze River to underpin China's sustainable economic development.
At least 170 dead pigs have been retrieved from a river in northwest China's Qinghai Province, local authorities said on Wednesday afternoon.
The second Summit of the Mekong River Commission wrapped up in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday after four days of sitting, with key outcomes reached by participants to the event.
The families of 29 men who died in New Zealand's worst modern mining disaster were Friday left with the prospect of negligible compensation despite winning damages from the company that was running the coal mine at the time.
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