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

Coal fly ash is a major carbon flux in the Chang Jiang (Yangtze River) basin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2021; 118 (21): e1921544118 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1921544118 Cite This ...

Map of the Yangtze River Delta, within which the Tai Lake Basin is characterised by low-lying lands. Source: Nolf et al., Delta Management in Evolution: A Comparative Review of the Yangtze River ...

The number of finless porpoises in the Yangtze river halved from 3,600 in the 1990s to 1,800 in 2006 and by 2012 there were 1,045 left. But the decline stopped around 2017 and in the five years ...

China Issues Flood Warning With Yangtze River Seen at Risk A partially submerged ... Minister of Water Resources Li Guoying said in a statement on the ministry’s website late on Friday.

With the source of the Yangtze being on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at 5,250 meters, the huge elevation fall of the river — as it makes its way 6,300 kilometers east before emptying into the East ...

The Yangtze, one of China's two so-called "mother rivers", the other being the Yellow River, has been stained by years of pollution. Aquatic life has also been threatened and fish stocks depleted.