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The "Great River" with its entrance to the East China Sea marked as the "Mouth of the Yangtze" (揚子 江口) on the Jiangnan map in the 1754 Provincial Atlas of the Qing Empire. By the Han dynasty, Jiāng had come to mean any river in Chinese, and this river was distinguished as the "Great River" 大江 (Dàjiāng).
The Yangtze River Plain stretches 1,000 km from the Three Gorges to the sea. The terrain is mostly flat or low alluvial hills, with numerous shallow lakes. Large lakes include Poyang Lake , the largest freshwater lake in China, and Dongting Lake which was formerly the largest but has seen significant conversion to farmland over the years.
The Yangtze (Chang Jiang) rises in Tibet, flows through Central China and enters the East China Sea near Shanghai. The Yangtze is 6,300 kilometers long and has a catchment area of 1.8 million square kilometers. It is the third longest river in the world, after the Amazon and the Nile. The second longest river in China is the Huang He (Yellow ...
Yangtze River (Chang Jiang 长江; upper reach known as Jinsha Jiang 金沙江 and Tongtian River 通天河) (For detailed list see List of tributaries of the Yangtze.) Huangpu River (黃浦江) Suzhou Creek or Wusong River (苏州河, 吴淞江) Xitiao River (西苕溪) Daxi Creek; Grand Canal (大运河) Qinhuai River. Gaoyou Lake (高邮湖)
It is made up of alluvial deposits from the Yangtze River and its tributaries. The plain is somewhat swampy, made up of many lakes and rivers, making it suitable for rice growing and freshwater fish, and it is therefore known as the "land of fish and rice". The area also produces tea, silk, rapeseed, broad beans, and tangerines.
The alluvial East China plain extends from just south of Beijing in the north, to the Yangtze River delta in the south, punctuated only by the igneous Shandong highlands and peninsula. [3] [5] South of the Yangtze river, most of the landscape is mountainous, dominated by sedimentary deposits and by the South China Craton.
The map shows 500 settlements and a dozen rivers in China, and includes large parts of Korea and Vietnam. On the reverse side of Huayi tu is the gridded Yu Ji Tu (Map of the Tracks of Yu the Great). [7] This map is the earliest surviving example of lattice cartographic grid found in Chinese map, a system first introduced in China a millennium ...
Chengjiang faces a dilemma between calls for preservation of the treasure trove of early Cambrian fossils, the economic reliance it has on the phosphate industry, and the difficulty of finding a balance between exploitation and restoration of the land while this is still possible.