November 22, 2017, Lijiang, China - View of Tiger Leaping Gorge from a hiking trail above. Tiger Leaping Gorge is one of the world's deepest canyons with a maximum depth of around 3,790m from river to mountain peak. The river below is the Jinsha, a primary tributary of the upper Yangtze.
December 2, 2017, Baoshan Stone Village, China - View of the Jinsha River from a room in Mu's Guesthouse.
December 2, 2017, Baoshan Vilage, China - Vanessa pats a horse beneath a home on the steep banks of the Jinsha River.
December 2, 2017, Baoshan Vilage, China - Local men from the Naxi ethnicity.
December 2, 2017, Baoshan Village, China - A local construction worker on bridge being built for a hotel project. Tourists will mainly travel to the hotel from by river from Lijiang, which although 140km from the village by road, constitutes a journey of up to six hours via winding mountain passes.
April 19, 2018, Yibin, China - A young man lights his friend’s cigarette on a platform above where the Min and Jinsha Rivers meet to form the Yangtze River.
April 20, 2018, Yibin, China - A bicycle from the MoBike bike share scheme lies abandoned in water on the edge of the Yangtze River.
April 20, 2018, Yibin, China - Double exposure of a man about to take a swim in the Yangtze River.
April 21, 2018, Hejiang, China - The columns of a bridge for a high speed train cuts straight through a residential district in this county of almost one million on the edge of the Yangtze River.
April 21, 2018, Hejiang, China - Two boys play with a kite on a large expanse of concrete on the edge of the Yangtze River. This county is one of the oldest in the upper Yangtze region with a history of more than 2,100 years.
May 16, 2016, Chongqing, China - Dongshuimen Bridge at as seen from Yuzhong on an early morning. This bridge came into operation in 2014 and has a length of 858m.
August 27, 2017, Chongqing, China - A man on a motorscooter on the edge of the Yangtze River with high rise and commercial developments in Chaotianmen and Jiangbei in the background.
August 27, 2017, Chongqing, China - Morning pedestrian traffic by the Jiialing River close to where it meets the Yangtze at the city’s Yuzhong Peninsula.
August 27, 2017, Chongqing, China - Workers seen through an entrance in tempory fencing made to look like a forest scene at a construction site in Jiangbei District. Chongqing has been China's fastest growing city for 10 straight quarters according to a report in the South China Morning Post.
October 25, 2018, Chongqing, China - Two men, one in a hard hat, look over a wall to view the construction of yet another bridge across the Yangtze River. As of 2014, Chongqing had 20 bridges spanning the Yangtze and another 28 across the Jialing River.
August 27, 2017, Chongqing, China - Locals and tourists on the edge of the Yangtze River at sundown.
October 25, 2018, Chongqing, China - A man stands on a rooftop on a hill above the Yangtze River.
August 13, 2017, Fuling, China - A policeman rides on a segway type vehicle on a road that leads down to the Yangtze River.
August 11, 2018, Yueyang, China - A woman passes watermelons to her husband from the edge of their boat from which they sells provisions to the crew of ships on the Yangtze River.
August 11, 2018, Yueyang, China - A man stands on the banks of the Yangtze River.and gazes at the summer sunset.
July 24, 2016, Yichang, China - Double exposure of morning swimmers down by the Yangtze River. The Three Gorges Dam is within Yichang's administrative district and around 19 miles from the city center.
July 24, 2016, Yichang, China - Local fishermen on the banks of the Yangtze River are dwarfed by the Three Gorges Dam. The dam is the world's largest powerstation, with an installed capacity of 22,500 MW. The aim of the project was to improve navigation on China's largest river, limit flooding downstream, to generate power and to reduce the country's greenhouse emissions. Some 1.3 million people were displaced by the project and many cultural and archaeological relics lost to the rising waters.
October 26, 2015, Wuhan, China - A man fishes from the banks of the Yangtze River. A residential district in Wuchang on the opposite bank, can be made out through thick smog. This point in the river is around two thirds of a mile wide. Chairman Mao Zedong, the 73 years of age, famously swam in the Yangtze River on July 16, 1966, in propaganda stunt on the eve of the Cultural Revolution.
October 26, 2015, Wuhan, China - A man peers inton the Yangtze River as a swimer passes by.
October 19, 2020 , Wuhan, China - Passengers wearing surgical masks as a precaution against the COVID-19 pandemic take photos from inside the number 2 ferry from Hankou to Wuchang.
November 11, 2015, Wuhan, China - Writing and drawings of skyscraper in the sand on the banks of the Yangtze River.
February 24, 2018, Xiaoxhizhen, Hubei Province, across the river from Jiujiang in Jiangxi Province, which has a deeper channel and much greater wealth because of it.
February 24, 2018, Xiaoxhizhen, A man carries a heavy load balanced across his back with a bamboo pole.
February 24, 2018, Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province - Double exposure of downtown Jiujiang and the view across the Yangtze River from neighbouring Hubei Province.
February 23, 2018, Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province - A man walks under an umbrella next to a lake in the city’s downtown on a rainy morning.
August 27, 2016, Jiujiang, China - A man rows a small dinghy as a cargo ship passes by on the Yangtze River.
August 28, 2016, Jiujiang, China - A man walks by remade fortifications by the banks of the Yangtze River, reflected in a dirty window with graffiti etched into the grime.
January 31, 2017, Tongling, China - Passengers disembark from a small boat used as a ferry on the Yangtze River. Tongling, a city of around 750,000 has a history dating back 1,500 years.
January 30, 2017, Tongling, China - A man rides a motorbike along a path near a concrete factory the Yangtze River.
January 31, 2017, Tongling, China - A family burns fake money as an offering to the gods at the beginning of a Chinese New Year on the banks of the Yangtze River.
November 12, 2017, Wuhu, China - A couple walk from steps that have been decorated with metal sculpturesof giant crabs on the edge of the Yangtze River.
August 4, 2016, Nanjing, China - A man fishes with a net dressed in his underwear down by the banks of the Yangtze River.
April 24, 2018, Nanjing, China - Swan statues by a lake in Binjiang Park by the Jiajiang branch of the Yangte River.
April 24, 2018, Nanjing, China - Passengers’ reflection in the windows of a high speed train on the platform at South Nanjing Railway Station.
November 11, 2017, Nantong, Jiangsu Province - An unfinished elevated road flyover.
November 11, 2017, Nantong, China - Columns from the Hutong Bridge, which is currently under construction, but will span the Yangtze River with its 11km length linking Nantong to Shanghai.
April 23, 2017, Shanghai, China - A child walks along a groyne near the mouth of the Yangtze River in Pudong District.
August 5, 2018, Shanghai, China - Passengers on a ferry to Changxing Island in the mouth of the Yangtze River.
March 12, 2017, Shanghai, China - A photo shoot for a couple engaged to be wed on at Yangtze River Wetlands Park.
August 6, 2018, Shanghai, China - Members of an extended family play by the Shanghai Yangtze River Bridge, which links the islands of Changxing and Chongming. The entire system of tunnel and bridge that spans the Yangtze River at this section is 25.5 km wide.
August 5, 2018, Shanghai, China - Late afternoon crowd at a market on Changxing Island.
August 5, 2018, Shanghai, China - A fence, water pipes, farmland and cranes of shipyards on Changxing Island in the mouth of the Yangtze River.
April 23, 2017, Shanghai, China - Sightseers watch ships go by near a commercial dock near the mouth of the Yangtze River.
August 5, 2018, Shanghai, China - A container ship at the mouth of the Yangtze River as seen through the window of a ferry to Changxing Island.
June 8, 2016, Shengsi, Zhejiang Province - The Shengsi archipelago at dusk where the flow of the Yangtze meets the East China Sea.