4 résultats pour "chongqing"

• Yangtze - Geography.

  A Agriculture and Industry Today about 400 million people, or about one-third of the population of China, live in the Yangtze Basin. Many are engaged in agriculture. The basin contributes nearlyhalf of China’s crop production, although only one-quarter of the basin is arable. The most fertile areas for farming are the Sichuan Basin, the plains between theYangtze and its tributary the Han, and the plains of the lower basin. In all about 40 percent of the cereals, more than 30 percent of the cott...

• Chongqing o u Tch'ong-k'ing.

• Yangtze - geography.

  Yangtze Gorges, ChinaThe Yangtze Gorges, also known as the Three Gorges, once drew many tourists with their scenic beauty. However, the Three GorgesDam that was constructed in the early 21st century raised the level of the Yangtze River upstream, forming a deep reservoir thatflooded the gorges.Dean Conger/Corbis The Yangtze originates in the mountains of southwestern Qinghai Province, located in the northern Tibetan Plateau. The river has three headwaters, the highest of whichdescends from an el...

• Chiang Kai-shek - History.

  Even one of Chiang's allied commanders, Zhang Xueliang, who had been expelled from Manchuria after the Mukden Incident, came to doubt the wisdom of Chiang'sapproach. In 1936 Zhang held Chiang prisoner in Xi'an until Chiang agreed to join the Communists in an allied front against Japan. Chiang later denied making anyagreement. On July 7, 1937, near the Marco Polo Bridge on the outskirts of Beijing, a Chinese patrol and Japanese troops on a training exercise clashed, and full-scalewar broke out be...