Yangtze River

Yangtze River	Yangtze River

The biggest river in China is Yangtze River.It is the largest river in Chinaand the third longest one in the world. If the Yellow River is the mother river of China,then Yangtze River is the father river .
The climate of Yangtze River Delta is subtropical monsoon one with mild temperature. With fertile soil suitable for planting and ploughing, it is a land of rice and fish and famous for silk. What is more, it is abundant in aquatic    products too, with Zhoushan Fishery, Lusi Fishery and Yangtze Estuary  Fishery in the vicinity. The importance of the Yangtze River Delta lies on its other geographic advantages, too. It is both the hub of water communication and Gold Coast in China with 1000km of coastal line and 600km inland navigation line along which are located Shanghai,Ningbo,Zhoushan,Nanjing and Zhenjiang etc. From there, vessels can reach the ports of over 160  countries and areas with Shanghai as the centre of the modernised network. The Delta covers the whole area of 1.8million kilometres with the population of 350 million. The main agricultural products produced covers the half of national output and the market is quite potential. 
Except the  The Yangtze River Delta is quite strong in economic power and the most important manufacturing base in textile, mechanic and electric products,steel and iron,and petrochemical products. The manufacturing industry has been improved with the capacity of designing and developing and with competitive quality and prices. According to the development blueprint for the Changjiang Delta, by 2010, Shanghai will lay a solid foundation as an international economic center; Ningbo will be turned into a modernized international port city; Nanjing will lay a sound foundation as an international metropolis; Hangzhou will virtually be turned into an international tourist city; And similar goals are proposed for cities like Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Nantong, Shaoxing, etc. It is estimated by experts that, within the following one or two decades, the Changjiang Delta is very likely to grow into an extraordinary belt of metropolises, which can be compared to that around Tokyo and Osaka in Japan.