It began overseas relief work in 1991, responding to flooding along China's Yangzi river.
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Much later, she turned up under a different name in Zhangjiagang, a port on China's Yangzi River.
The Yellow River, China's second longest, has dried up since the early 1970s.
Nadav Kander's images of China's Yangtze River depict communities adjusting to the changes caused by the re-routing of the country's largest river.
Across the Amur river in China, it is 140 times as much.
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Wednesday, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said the H7N9 virus probably came from migratory birds from East Asia that mixed with domestic fowl in China's Yangtze River delta region around Shanghai.
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Around 1, 000 dead ducks have been pulled from a river in southwest China, local officials say.
Macau sits on a horn of rocky coastline, where the Pearl River washes into the South China Sea.
"We will continue patrols and law enforcement co-operation with the other three countries to safeguard shipping on the river, " he told China Daily.
Concentration for most pollutants remains high despite legislation passed in 2002 to control emissions in ten of China's biggest cities and several river valleys that provide industrial arteries into the interior from the heavily populated coasts.
Hwanggumpyong is a sandy island at the mouth of the Yalu river that divides North Korea from China.
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Declining U.S. consumer sentiment has led to this year's closure of 10, 000 factories in China's export powerhouse, the Pearl River Delta in Guangdong province.
They will be further stretched as trade booms up the Pearl River Delta, which reaches deep into China, as far as Guangzhou.
The flow from the source of the Pearl River, which empties into the South China Sea near Hong Kong and Macau, has been reduced to a trickle from a waterfall.
In April China defended itself (another first) at the Mekong River Commission, the inter-governmental body supposed to resolve disputes.
The film Red Cliff by director John Woo, the most expensive ever made in China, retells the story of a battle on the Yangtze river, as Cao Cao's navy is moored on one bank while Liu Bei and his accomplices are plotting on the other.
Naw Kham was eventually captured and extradited to China to stand trial for the killings of 13 Chinese crewmen on Mekong River in 2011.
The new bird flu virus outbreak continues to dominate media headlines, as China Central Television reports 14 diagnosed cases and five deaths in the Yangtze River Delta region.
Another partner in the core team at Kleiner China, Forrest Zhong, left the firm early this year to form South River Capital.
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All of the water problems of northern China seem to come into sharp focus here, 70 miles from the Yellow River, and even closer to the desert.
In a Ho Chi Minh City office near the Saigon River, I interviewed another Vietnamese entrepreneur with a story that has echoes of China start-ups in it.
Turning back to China, authorities say that nearly 6, 000 dead pigs found floating down the Huangpu River towards Shanghai were not killed by an epidemic and tap water in Shanghai is not contaminated, 21st Century Business Herald reports.
Gov. Pat Quinn today signed an agreement with China to export as much as 30 million pounds of Asian carp a year from the Illinois River, a move aimed at reducing the population of the invasive species downstate.
Shanghai's Pudong district, across the Huangpu river from the old foreign bank buildings on the Bund, shows just how serious China is: a Hong Kong-style skyline of towering buildings, including one housing the largest stockmarket trading-floor in the world, all of it built in just the past decade.
As it is, the food we export to China consumes around 41 trillion liters of water each year, or twice the discharge of the Colorado River, BCG says.
David Roche's analysis of deflationary pressure on world markets brought about by China's seemingly endless pool of cheap manufacturing labor is a good one (" Tributary to the river of deflation, " Sept. 16).
China's best ski slopes are at the nearby Yabuli Ski Resort, while in Harbin itself the Songhua River provides space for ice skaters and ice hockey games.
Beginning on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, people of several ethnic groups throughout China and the world celebrate the Dragon Boat festival, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.
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