Turning China’s water through 90º
- From: Vol 9, Issue 2 (February 2008)
- Category: General
- Region: Asia
- Country: China
The Yangtze River is China’s natural water transfer scheme – from west to east. Kathy Liu asks whether it can survive the man-made water diversion project from south to north.
The Yangtze River, the third longest in the world after the Nile and the Amazon, runs from Qinghai in the far west of China through 186 cities including Chongqing, Wuhan and Nanjing, before emptying into the sea at Shanghai.
According to government statistics, the total gross domestic product (GDP) of all cities along the Yangtze River accounts for 41% of ...
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