China is building the Pinglu Canal and studying a much longer Zhejiang-Jiangxi-Guangdong waterway. Here is what these projects change, who they affect, and what is still ...

The Yangtze is not just a postcard of the Three Gorges. It is the world's busiest inland waterway, moving more than 3 billion tonnes of cargo ...

The Yangtze's trunk-line ports handle about 4.2 billion tons of cargo a year — roughly seven times the Mississippi and close to China's entire rail network. ...