Just a couple of years ago, the vegetable patches yielded some of the sweetest spinach this side of the Yangtze River. |
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The Yangtze Delta was abundant in cultural and tourism resources, which could be used to enrich Expo activities. |
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Since the 14th century, the cotton textile industry has boomed in the Yangtze delta area where there were many blue calico workshops. |
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El Nino will lead to abnormal weather and the increase of tropical cyclones will bring more rainstorms to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. |
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More than 870,000 workers have been deployed to fight the floods and reinforce dykes along the Yangtze river. |
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Shanghai is the main consumer of livestock and poultry in the Yangtze River Delta. |
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Bearded passages of vegetation cling to steep rock, and the strong Yangtze current spills diagonally along the bottom of the frame. |
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The last remaining natural populations are largely in the low coastal and interior mountains straddling the Yangtze River. |
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Married in April, we struck out for the Yangtze River in July. |
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The Yangtze River is no longer an Eden for white-flag dolphins. |
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Along the precipitous slopes of the upper Yangtze Gorge, dwarf blue sheep and blue sheep occupy disjunct habitats separated by a belt of subtropical forest. |
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The Yangtze flood crest will roll on downriver toward Wuhan, a city of more than 7 million people already working frantically to shore up its defenses. |
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The canal is also used to divert water from the Yangtze to northern Jiangsu province for irrigation, making possible double cropping of rice. |
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He's buoyed by the success of a conservation project at Tian-ezhou, a protected oxbow lake that was once part of the Yangtze. |
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The Nationalist government moved its central headquarters from Guangzhou to the Wuhan cities of the Yangtze. |
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This notably concerns the port of Wuhan and the 70 000 km² of the Yangtze economic zone. |
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At 3,071 meters, the Jiangyin Yangtze River Highway Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in China and the fourth-longest in the world. |
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The western section would involve tunnelling through mountains to link the headwaters of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers. |
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Take Wuhan, for example, a city of 4.4m people on the banks of the Yangtze. |
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China provides other examples with river transport from the Port of Shanghai along the Yangtze, over very long distances inland. |
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The Yangtze, China's longest river, flows through Wuhan, which has a large commercial port. |
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The vessels of both projects will be operated only in domestic traffic, along the Chinese coast and for river transport on the Yangtze. |
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Consider that the Yangtze River Delta region alone has an economy as large as that of Russia. |
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Currently CITIC Pacific has a large quality land bank in Shanghai, major secondary cities in the Yangtze Delta area and Hainan Island. |
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These features had helped to conserve the environment and protect the water catchment area of the upper Yangtze River. |
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The first blocking of the Yangtze took place here three years ago. |
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The project will nurture the emerging economies of the Hunan and Guangxi provinces by improving shipping channels to the Yangtze and Pearl Rivers and thence to the sea. |
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The snakehead is native to the Yangtze River region of China and is capable of wiping out all the species of one pond and moving on its belly and fins to the next pond. |
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The herbs Rumex acetosa L. and Commelina communis L. are two pseudo-metallophytes thriving in both normal and cupriferous soils along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China. |
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We spent time in Beijing and Shanghai, but we also got to see some of the rural interior and the infamous Three Gorges Dam during a cruise along the Yangtze River. |
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Children and communities in China are actively involved in restoring the ecological integrity of China's most famous river as part of the Water School for a Living Yangtze project. |
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These Neolithic civilizations, known as the Yellow River and Yangtze civilizations, arose millennia ago. |
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To the south, various small kingdoms far beyond the Yangtze River Valley were formally incorporated into the empire. |
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The Shanyang Canal originally opened onto the Yangtze a short distance south of Yangzhou. |
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In the Valley of the Yangtze is the memoir of author Helen Roberts Thomas, born on Chinese soil to American Episcopal missionaries. |
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When the Yangtze River caused widespread flooding in China, the disaster was all the greater for the deforestation and erosion that were the consequences of overdevelopment for housing along the river banks. |
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So long live Yangtze soft-shelled turtles, Tasmanian devils, cheetahs and koalas too. |
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Hankou lies to the northwest of Yangtze River, and to the northeast of Hanshui River, including Qiaokou, Jianghan and Jiang'an District. |
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Individuals born in the late 1980s and early 1990s may survive in the wild because the Yangtze River system has complicated habitats where paddlefish could hide. |
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The Yangtze River has considerable waterpower potential. |
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The researchers hoped that if any dolphins were spotted, they could be taken to a reserve in an oxbow lake which was once part of the Yangtze in the hope of boosting their numbers. |
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Rather than returning to the capital, he continued his advance into the Wuchang area of China, near the Yangtze River. |
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The main fear is that embankments might give way along the mighty Yangtze and around Dongting lake, which serves as an overflow for the flood-prone Yangtze and which is already heavily swollen. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The port is at the centre of the economic belt of the upper Yangtze. It connects China's western and eastern coasts, as well as its northern and southern regions. |
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Some of these materials are directly relevant to major Canadian and international flood disasters, such as the July 1996 Saguenay flood disaster, the 1997 Red River flood and the 1998 Yangtze River flooding, China. |
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Operating Income and Total Profit of Yangtze Optical Fibre and Cable Company Ltd. |
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Kublai decided to keep the death of his brother secret and continued the attack on Wuhan, near the Yangtze. |
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The most economically dynamic and wealthy population is concentrated in the coastal areas, in particular the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, and Bohai Rim. |
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Areas with important ecological function include the source regions of the Yangtze and Yellow rivers, ecological barrier regions, and nature preserves. |
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The Yangtze is not only the longest river in Asia. Its historical importance as the border river between north and south China and its world-famous gorges have given it mythical status. |
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Geochemical characteristics and genesis of Neoproterozoic granitoids in the northwestern margin of the Yangtze Block. |
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The HSBC Climate Partnership is helping to increase the income of farmers in the Central Yangtze region of China by encouraging them to employ sustainable agriculture and aquaculture techniques. |
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Good examples of job production would be a specially designed wedding ring or made-to-measure suits or the Yangtze dam in China. |
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These are popular in Nanjing and Hangzhou, as well as elsewhere along the southern Yangtze area. |
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A 2006 survey found no individuals of the Yangtze river dolphin, which now appears to be functionally extinct. |
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Even the enormous Yangtze River arises in the Ruoergai peatland near its headwaters in Tibet. |
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The shipyard was located on the Qinhuai River near Nanjing, where it flows into the Yangtze River. |
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Many trees were cut along the Min River and upper reaches of the Yangtze to supply the necessary resources for the construction of the fleet. |
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The Yangtze river, with its calmer waters, may have been navigable by these treasure ships. |
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The city of Yangzhou along the Grand Canal and close to the Yangtze River was the greatest economic center during the Tang era. |
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The Yangtze River, with its calmer waters, may have been navigable for such large but unseaworthy ships. |
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Taxes were remitted so that vagrant farmers could return home, especially in the overburdened Yangtze River Delta. |
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Major rivers such as the Tigris, the Indus, the Ganges, the Yellow River and the Yangtze are depicted. |
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The fate of the Yangtze giant soft-shelled turtle, which can weigh up to 220 pounds, depends on whether two elderly turtles in Chinese zoos are able to reproduce. |
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This southernmost section of the canal runs from Hangzhou in Zhejiang, where the canal connects with the Qiantang River, to Zhenjiang in Jiangsu, where it meets the Yangtze. |
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As of 2014, only five hundred and five Yangtze finless porpoises remained in the main section of the Yangtze, with an alarming population density in Ezhou and Zhenjiang. |
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The Yangtze River in China is the longest river in the continent. |
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The baby alligators represent a milestone for the 10-year effort to reintroduce the Chinese alligator on Chongming Island, located at the mouth of China's Yangtze River. |
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The Yellow River is said to be the cradle of Chinese civilization, although cultures originated at various regional centers along both the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers. |
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The Yongle Emperor also worked to reclaim production rich regions such as the Lower Yangtze Delta and called for a massive reconstruction of the Grand Canal. |
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The victory destroyed the last opposing rebel faction, leaving Zhu Yuanzhang in uncontested control of the bountiful Yangtze River Valley and cementing his power in the south. |
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In 1170 the poet, politician and historian Lu You travelled upon the Grand Canal from Shaoxing to the river Yangtze, recording his progress in a diary. |
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In 2009, 120,000 Chinese sturgeons were released into the Yangtze River in an effort to boost the population of the endangered species in the wild. |
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Starting at Beijing, it passes through Tianjin and the provinces of Hebei, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the city of Hangzhou, linking the Yellow River and Yangtze River. |
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When the canal was completed it linked the systems of the Qiantang River, the Yangtze River, the Huai River, the Yellow River, the Wei River and the Hai River. |
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In 1793, after a largely fruitless diplomatic mission to Jehol, a large part of Lord Macartney's embassy returned south to the Yangtze delta on the Grand Canal. |
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After Deng Xiaoping's reformist policies began in 1978, Hangzhou took advantage of being situated in the Yangtze River Delta to bolster its development. |
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