China on the Yangtze River

Yangtze River originate in the Yangtze River in southwestern Qinghai Province, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau on the pulse peak of the Tanggula Mountains Geladandong Snow and tortuous river flows. Mainstream has run through Qinghai, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai has 11 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, and the final injection of the East China Sea. Total length of 6,300 km, is China's first large rivers, it is Asia's longest river, the world's third largest river. Basin area of over 180 million square kilometers, about the country's total area of 1 / 5, into the sea, is about one trillion cubic meters, accounting for the river into the sea in 1 / 3 above. It flows through China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Hengduan Mountains, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Sichuan Basin, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain, Most valley in humid areas.