The total length of the Yangtze River is more than 6,300 kilometers, more than 800 kilometers longer than the Yellow River, and ranks third in the world among the world's great rivers in length after the Nile River in Africa and the Amazon River in South America. However, while the Nile River basin spans nine countries in Africa and the Amazon River basin spans seven countries in South America, the Yangtze River is unique to China.

The Yangtze River originates from the "roof of the world" - the southwest side of the Tanggula Mountain Range of the Tibetan Plateau, is the mother river of the Chinese nation. It flows through 11 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, including Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Shanghai, and is injected into the East China Sea east of Chongming Island.

The main stream of the Yangtze River runs from west to east across central China. Hundreds of tributaries converge in the north and south, extending to parts of eight provinces and autonomous regions, namely, Guizhou, Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Zhejiang and Fujian.

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Governance and development of the Yangtze River:

1, South-to-North Water Transfer Project

Can improve the situation of serious water shortage in China's Yellow River, Huaihe River, Haihe River Basin and Northwest China.

2, the western route project

Tongtian River, Yalong River, Dadu River from the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to the upper reaches of the Yellow River, to solve the problem of water shortage in the northwest.

3, Gezhouba Project

Construction began in 1971, and all the projects were successfully completed in 1994. In terms of shipping, the Yangtze River in the most treacherous channel of the Sichuan River in the Three Gorges section has been significantly improved, conducive to the development of shipping, locks approach channel operating normally.

4, the Three Gorges Project

is a large-scale water conservancy project built in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River in China. Distributed on the main stream of the Yangtze River from Chongqing Municipality in China to Yichang City in Hubei Province, the dam is located at Sandouping, Yiling District, Yichang City, within the Xiling Gorge of the Three Gorges, and forms a gradient dispatch power station with the Gezhouba hydroelectric power station not far downstream of it.

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