Rivers 河流

China boasts 50,000 rivers, each having a drainage area of over 100 square kilometers or 38.6 square miles. Of the 50,000 rivers, 1,500 of them drain an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers or 386 square miles each. Most of them flow from west to east to empty into the Pacific Ocean.

Major rivers include the Yangtze River (6,300 kilometres or 3,912.3 miles) the Yellow River (5,464 kilometres or 3,393.1 miles), the Heilongjiang River (3,101 kilometres or 1,925.7 miles), the Pearl River (2,215.8 kilometres or 1,376 miles), the Liaohe River (1,090 kilometres or 676.9 miles), the Qiantang River(605 kilometres or 375.7 miles) and the Lancang River (4,688 kilometres or 2,911.25 miles; 2,354 kilometres or 1,461.8 miles within the boundaries of China.) The 6,300-kilometre-long Yangtze River is the longest river in China.

The second longest river is the Yekkow River totaling 5,465 kilometres.

The Grand Canal from Hangzhou, Zhejiang Prov9ince to Beijing, the capital of the People’s Republic of China, was a great water project in ancient China. It covers a distance of 1,747 kilometres (or 1,083.14 miles), making it the longest canal throughout the world.

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