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This silted base, the edge of the North China Plain, was built up over time by the sand carried downstream through the mountains by the Yongding River in the west and the Chaobai River in the east.

ON THE ARID north China plain around Beijing, people usually complain there is too little water, rather than too much. But in recent weeks a typhoon named Doksuri made its way unusually far inland ...

Sun explained since northern China’s terrain is higher in the west and lower in the east, rainfall usually accumulates on the western side of the North China Plain – where Hebei, Tianjin and ...

A sizable portion of China’s population and heavy industry—and about 40 percent of its farmland—are on the North China Plain. Yet the region has less than 10 percent of the country’s water.

Recently, a research team led by Prof. XIE Pinhua from the Hefei lnstitutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of ...

Fishing boats heading out to sea in Zhoushan, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on August 1, 2024. AFP via Getty Images What To Know. At least a dozen Chinese-flagged tuna longliners operating ...