If it works as planned, the dam will also contain the summer rains that regularly flood settlements along the lower Yangtze, potentially saving tens of thousands of lives.

Increased salinisation is thus a real prospect for the lower Yangtze if this project proceeds.

Anqing is located in the southwestern part of Anhui province, and on the northern shore of the lower Yangtze.

After the Japanese took control of much of the middle and lower Yangtze, American gunboats entered into a period of frustrating inactivity and impotence.

Sun Quan, the successor to Sun Ce in the lower Yangtze, continued to resist, however.

Samar patrolled the lower Yangtze after fighting broke out in the summer 1913, a precursor to a decade of conflict between provincial warlords in China.

In 1939 the Japanese put further restrictions on foreign shipping on the lower Yangtze, trying to undo the near British Monopoly.

These waterworks would be even larger and more costly than the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest hydroelectric project, which is now under construction on the lower Yangtze.

She then operated along the north and central China coast and on the lower Yangtze until June 1892.

In 2007, a large, white animal was sighted and photographed in the lower Yangtze, and was tentatively presumed to be a Baiji.