Chinese Scientists Set out to Find Yangtze SourceAn expedition team composed of Chinese scientists and correspondents set out Monday from Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province, to find the source of the Yangtze River.The team will go through Guizhou, Sichuan and Qinghai provinces and the Tibet Autonomous Region, traveling 9,000 kilometers in 60 days. They plan to use remote-sensing technologies to carry out on-the-spot investigations to discover the source of the Yangtze. The 6,300-kilometer Yangtze is the longest river in China and the third longest in the world, following the Nile in Africa and the Amazon in South America. The drainage area of the river is 1.8 million square kilometers. There are more than 400 million people living along the river. |
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