Sentence examples for Yangtze from inspiring English sources
"Yangtze" is a correct and usable word in written English
You can use it to refer to the longest river in China which is called the Yangtze River. Example sentence: I visited the Yangtze River during my trip to China.
proper noun
The longest river in China that flows to the East China Sea north of Shanghai.
Yaowan is one of hundreds of villages and dozens of towns that will be flooded after the world's biggest hydroelectric dam blocks the Yangtze at the bottom of the scenic Three Gorges in June next year.
The Binhai New Area, as the zone is called, is intended to help a swathe of northern China, including the capital, Beijing, and the provinces around the Bohai gulf (see map), enjoy the same kind of economic boom generated by Shenzhen in the Pearl River delta and by Shanghai in the lower reaches of the Yangtze.
Work on one new dam at Xiluodu on the upper Yangtze, which will rival Itaipu's power capacity, resumed last year after being halted for a few months for an environmental assessment.
AFTER hundreds of studies, copious debate, and a decade of construction, the waters are finally rising behind China's huge new Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze river.
Take Wuhan, for example, a city of 4.4m people on the banks of the Yangtze.
True, the dam will not manage to pay for itself without further reforms in China's irrational structure for the pricing and distribution of power; but starting from as early as this summer, China will reap huge benefits from its new ability to control flooding at the lower reaches of the Yangtze.
The uncontrolled floods of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) and the Huang He in China, however, have repeatedly wrought disaster when these rivers habitually rechart their courses.
A pipeline completed in 1978 connects the Shengli oil field with those of the North China Plain in Hebei and the ports and refineries of the lower Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) area.
Population density was heaviest in the best agricultural lowlands, which had also been occupied the longest, such as the North China Plain, the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) valley, southern Japan, coastal Vietnam, the lowlands of Java, and the Ganges (Ganga) and Indus river valleys.
This gap gives easy access from the Henan Plain to the central basin of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang), a route much used from Han times onward in Chinese expansion southward.
THE Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is not quite what it is often made out to be.
