3. The three main courses of Yangtze river

4. Facts about the Yangtze river
Length 3,964 miles
Source Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, China
Mouth East China Sea, near Shanghai
Flows through Congqing, Yichang, Wuhan, Nanjing and Shanghai
The name came from Chinese Chang-jiang, meaning "Long River"

5. How is the river utilised?
The river has served as a means of transportation for 2,000 years.
Highest transportation takes place in Yangtze river in China.
The river is also used for sight-seeing tours and for private travel.
Agriculture: Rice in the low east, and wheat in the north part of the region
Economic: The Yangtze River is of major economic importance

6. The largest ever build dam in the world
The three gorges dam
The largest ever build dam in the world
The benefits of three gorges dam
Flood Control: It has the flood control capacity of billion cubic meters
The Three Gorges Dam Project will protect 23,000,000 mu of farmland (1,533,333 hectares)
It will protect the lives of 15 million people in the down river area of the Changjiang

7. Power generation: It will generate 84
Power generation: It will generate 84.6 billion kilowatt hours of hydroelectricity.
It will also play an important role in the development of the economy.
Reduction of environmental pollution.
Tourism: It will promote further tourism
It has become the "hottest" tourist and press attraction in recent years.

8. Challenges posses by Yangtze
Lots of destruction of human settlements takes place
140 small villages, 1,600 factories and well over 80,000 acres of grow able land will be destroyed by the new reservoir.
There are always environmental problems associated with the construction of dams.
Worldwide, environmentalists predict that the deeper, colder water could result in the extinction of animals.
Such as Chinese Alligator and the River Dolphin