It's all part of a recent emphasis that the Chinese government has had on recovering the river's ecosystem to former glories.

The dam will be located in the lower reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo. India and Bangladesh have already raised concerns about ...

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI, July 21 (Reuters) - China's Premier Li Qiang announced construction had begun on what will be the world's ...

China has lots of natural beauty waiting for visitors to discover, but few spots are more striking than this unique landmark ...

The Yarlung Tsangpo River starts in western Tibet, near Mount Kailash, at a glacier in the Himalayas. It flows for about ...

Screenshot from media report. A 60-year-old woman accidentally fell into the Yangtze River and drifted for five hours o ...

Read about the Yangtze River below, then click on the main image to begin a slideshow about the region. Origin: Starting in the Kunlun Mountains of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China's Yangtze River ...

Rainfall in the Yangtze River basin is down 45% below normal levels, and as many as 66 rivers in the Chongqing region are drying up. The heat wave plaguing the area isn’t expected to let up for ...

The Yangtze River originates in the Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau before flowing through 11 Chinese provinces (including Yunnan, above) before emptying into the East China Sea.