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Yangtze River
The Yangtze, Yangzi or Cháng Jiāng is the longest river in Asia, and the third-longest in the world. It flows for from the glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau in Qinghai eastward across southwest, central and eastern China before emptying into the East China Sea at Shanghai. It is also one of the biggest rivers by discharge volume in the world...
Timeline of Events
1937
12.12.1937
Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink US gunboat ''Panay'' on the Yangtze River in China.
1994
12.14.1994
Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam in the Yangtze River.
1997
1.3.1997
The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $27.7 billion USD to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys.