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Yellow River Transportation
Updated: Sep. 15, 2009; by China Highlights; Comments: 0; Clicks: 647;
Yellow River Transportation
The shipping of the Yellow River is relatively developed in the ancient time. Nowadays, however, the large amount of mud and sand discharged into the river makes it a seasonal river, and there are many suspended rivers on the Yellow River. As the Yellow River flows through the Loess Plateau, lots of soft soil falls into the river and flows with the water in the river. Much of the soil accumulates on the riverbed so the riverbed becomes higher and higher. Eventually some sections of riverbed rise out of the river and block the water. The section between the raised riverbeds is called a suspended river. Most of the suspended rivers are on the lower reaches of Yellow River because the soil in the water is more likely to accumulate there.
All these factors have restricted the development of the shipping of the Yellow River, and make only some section of upper reaches of the Yellow river navigable.
Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia section of the Yellow River has a total length of 840km. It has a long history of shipping from the ancient time. These regions along the river are mostly deserts and grasslands, with very few tributaries. The flow is slow and nowadays it is one of the most important navigable sections of the Yellow River
Lanzhou
Lanzhou section of the Yellow River has a total length of 38.4km, passes through the urban district of Lanzhou city, which is the only city that the Yellow River has passed through.
