The oldest known part of the Great Wall of China was recently excavated, dating 300 years earlier than the previous record-holding section. This new find is part of the larger oldest part of the Great ...

Soldiers from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) salvaging agricultural machines trapped in silt at the Shalan Township June 14, 2005. By 3:30 PM on June 14, the death toll of the flood ...

precisely to lessen the risk of devastating flooding along the Yangtze, a perennial problem in China since ancient times. The river’s basin accounts for nearly half of China’s agricultural ...