Death toll from typhoon Wipha rises to five ( 07-09-20 )

The number of fatalities in east China resulting from the impact of typhoon Wipha has risen to five, and three others are missing, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

China - the World's Largest Emitter of Greenhouse Gases ( 07-05-08 )

Anyone looking for why the world should care about China's economy and its propensity to grow at double-digit rates may have found it not in Beijing on the 19th April 2007, but in Paris, at the International Energy Agency （IEA）. According to the IEA, the country – whose economy expanded by 11.1 per cent in the first quarter – could overtake the US as the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2007 or in 2008. This is at least 12 months earlier than its recent estimate of 2009. “If ...

Exterior Rivers ( 06-11-27 )

Practically all the large rivers in China belong to the exterior river system, directly or indirectly emptying into the seas. Because China’s terrain is high in the west and low in the east, most of its rivers flow westeast into the Pacific, including the Heilong, Liaohe, Haihe, Huanghe, Huaihe, Changjiang (Yangtze River), Minjiang, Zhujiang and Lancang rivers. The area drained by these rivers belongs to the Pacific catchment area, and covers 5.4459 million square kilometers, or 56.8 percent of ...

Huangguoshu Waterfall (黄果树瀑布) ( 06-11-27 )

The Huangguoshu waterfall, one of the largest in China, is situated over the Baishui River, one of the headstreams of the Dabang River in the Zhenning Bouyei-Miao Autonomous County southwest of Guizhou (贵州). As part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the terrain is carved by the mountains into many canyons, rapids and waterfalls. The bed of the Baishui River is like a staircase descending step by step, forming nine falls at each step, of which the Huangguoshu waterfall is the largest. The ...

Interior rivers ( 06-11-27 )

Interior rivers have no outlet to the sea but flow into inland lakes or disappear in deserts. Most of China’s interior rivers are found in the arid northwest north of the Kunlun range and the Northern Tibet Plateau to its south and are fed by the glaciers and melting snow from the Tianshan, Kunlun and Qilian ranges. Although chiefly seasonal waterways that dry up most of the year these rivers are of great importance to agriculture and animal husbandry in the northwest. The interior rivers of ...

Plum Rains ( 06-11-27 )

Typhoons ( 06-11-27 )

5 Pools and 18 Waterfalls at Jinggang Mountain ( 06-11-27 )

Animal Species and Distribution ( 06-11-27 )

Beidaihe (北戴河) ( 06-11-27 )

Changbaishan Waterfall (长白山瀑布) ( 06-11-27 )

China Five Mountain Ranges ( 06-11-27 )

Dalongqiu Waterfall (大龙丘瀑布) in Yandang ( 06-11-27 )

Daming Lake (Lake of Great Light) (大明湖) ( 06-11-27 )

Diaoshuilou Waterfall (吊水楼瀑布) ( 06-11-27 )

Distribution of Forests in China ( 06-11-27 )

Freshwater Lakes ( 06-11-27 )

Fuchun River(富春江) ( 06-11-27 )

Heavenly Pond Waterfall ( 06-11-27 )

Huangshan Waterfalls ( 06-11-27 )