So why did the industrial revolution begin in Britain and not along the Yangzi river?
Yangzi Daily added that social stability in China would be unsustainable without political change.
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It began overseas relief work in 1991, responding to flooding along China's Yangzi river.
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It is now second on the river only to the sprawling Yangzi River company.
Much later, she turned up under a different name in Zhangjiagang, a port on China's Yangzi River.
The Yangzi River flood has soaked up all the clamor of life in the towns around the lake.
The deluge along the Yangzi River, if not the biggest ever, is certainly the largest in recent memory.
China issued a second water-pollution alert within a month, when phenol, a dangerous chemical, leaked into the Yangzi river near Shanghai.
Provincial authorities in Sichuan, on the upper reaches of the Yangzi, have already banned logging in primal forests under their jurisdiction.
China should know: deforestation along the Yangzi River worsened this year's floods.
But as their size has shrunk, so has the capacity of the Yangzi valley to accommodate spillage caused by the annual monsoon rains.
With others, he killed proposals to build giant dams on the Salween river and in one of the most spectacular gorges of the Yangzi.
Minsheng's former reputation for good management was still alive in Chongqing, and it stood in stark contrast to that of the Yangzi River Steamboat Company.
The city of Shanghai has been utterly transformed, and development at an astonishing pace has spread far down the length of the Yangzi river, a region encompassing perhaps 300m people.
But one official, Wang Jingquan of the Yangzi's Water Resources Committee, conceded that the dam had lowered water levels in two of the country's biggest freshwater lakes, making the impact worse.
And references to the backstory of Javier Bardem's rogue MI6 agent were culled to avoid giving attention his role in stalling Hong Kong's handover to China, the Yangzi Evening News reported.
Later this year the Yangzi will be blocked and diverted at the site of the Three Gorges dam, a giant project that will turn the 600 kilometres below Chongqing into a lake.
It takes about as long to get a container from Long Beach, California, to Shanghai as it does to get one from Shanghai to Chongqing, a thousand miles or so up the Yangzi river.
It was an ambitious project for a region that had few of the advantages of the fast-growing Yangzi and Pearl River deltas, with their better-developed private sectors and ready access to investment and know-how from abroad, especially Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Unlike most of his peers, who lived a comfortable colonial existence in Shanghai's international settlement, Crow reported on floods up the Yangzi, negotiated the release of hostages from a Shandong warlord and slept in inns so grim he would stand his bed legs in kerosene to keep centipedes at bay.
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