A 436-foot-long (133-meter-long), 73.8-ton (67-tonne) wind turbine blade was successfully loaded onto a ship at Yangzhou Port in China, breaking the record for the longest blade handling operation in ...

A drone photo taken on April 10, 2025 shows staff members of the State Grid Yichang Power Supply Company inspecting shore ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Technically it’s ancient technology. But now the two-millennia-old principle of the Greek mathematician Archimedes has ...

If China is on your travel bucket list, why not consider a river cruise down the famed Yangtze River? Spanning over 6,000 kilometres long, the Yangtze runs through some of China’s most well ...

Nearly 4,000 miles long, the Yangtze has watered civilizations for millennia—and laid waste to them too. The eighth-century poet Li Bai wrote that navigating the river was "even harder than ...

March saw the 21st river funeral held in Taizhou; the bereaved families came to Gaogang Automobile Ferry by car, board the ship and scatter their loved ones ashes, tighter with flower petals, as the ...

As the first town along the Yangtze River's entry into Hunan province, Dongshan township exemplifies how balancing nature and economic development can forge a sustainable, prosperous future for ...

Here’s how big the Yangtze is. A third of all the inhabitants of China (which means more than 400 million people) live in the area covered by the Yangtze’s river basin. The Yangtze basin provides ...