SixcrewmembersfellintowaterasacargovesselcapsizedThursdayintheYangtzeRiverincentralChina'sHubeiProvince,authoritiessaidFriday.TheaccidenthappenedThursdayevening
ChinahaslauncheditsfirstsurveyofendangeredfinlessporpoisesinfiveyearsinamovetostemthedeclineintheirpopulationandfurtherrehabilitatetheirhabitatintheYangtzeRiver
Surveys have found that the environment at the headwater of the Yangtze, China's longest river, has "markedly improved," with lakes expanding and wildlife thriving.
Release of floodwaters washed farmed non-native species into river, where they will compete with wild fish
While downpours continue to threaten Chinese towns and cities, the Three Gorges Dam, widely seen as the solution to frequent flooding along the Yangtze River, is braced for potentially bigger surges this year.
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.
A ship loaded with three tanks weighing about 60 tonnes each is nearing Shanghai during a pioneering two-week journey starting from southwest China's Yibin City along the Yangtze River.
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.
Since taking office in late 2012, China's leadership has proposed three major strategies to boost growth as the Chinese economy enters a "new normal" with slower growth and the world's remains unstable.
With the waves of a downturn lapping the economy, China is trying to shore up growth by developing tourism along its longest river, the Yangtze.
Chinese President Xi Jinping stressed ecology and "green development" in boosting the growth of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
After working in Shanghai for seven years, welder Wang Ting got a job offer from the inland city of Wuhan. He did not think twice before accepting, not only did it mean he could return to his hometown but the area has emerged as an economically promising region with plenty of opportunities.
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.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Monday discussed building an economic belt along the Yangtze River to underpin China's sustainable economic development.
Shao Guoqing hauled his boat and fishing equipment onshore as the Yangtze, dubbed China's Mother River, entered its three-month fishing moratorium on Tuesday.
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