While some updates to river classification are plausible, cartography and mapping techniques have been very sophisticated in China for many years. One user on Sina Weibo tweeted an old map of ...

China’s longest rivers, the Yangtze and the Yellow ... saying previous estimates were based on incomplete topographical maps from the 1950s. Experts, meanwhile, say there are more direct ...

But such idyllic rivers in China may soon become a thing of the past ... In the 1990s, our experts depended on the old maps, old materials to calculate, but this time, we used the newest maps with the ...

Around 28,000 rivers have disappeared from China's state maps and environmental researchers claim the startling loss is down to the country's breakneck economic progress. An official report from ...

Click through the interactive infographic below to view China’s seven major river basins and how the water quality of each river has changed over the past decade.

A research institute under Chinese Academy of Sciences has drawn a map of antibiotic-polluted rivers in China, which shows the Haihe River Basin in north China and the Pearl River Basin in the ...

China’s Yangtze swims in a sea of colors, while the Mississippi swirls in soft pastels. Why rivers? “Because they are amazing,” Szucs tells CNN. “I mean, look at my US river map – I ...

China will enter into talks with Russia and North Korea on securing greater access to a Northeast Asia river that runs into the Sea of Japan. An increase in Chinese commercial activity in the area is ...