The only armed guards we saw in China were army and militia sentries on duty at public buildings or other important structures, such as the bridge across the Yangzi River at Wuhan.
The triple city of Wuhan, capital of Hebei[sic – meaning Hubei] province, lies on the middle reaches of the Yangzi River at its confluence with the Han River, and on the main north-south railway linking Peking and Canton.
1990, Philip C. C. Huang, “The Yangzi Delta Ecosystem”, in The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350–1998[3], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 25:
Two geographical forces shaped the topography of the delta: the interaction between the Yangzi River and the ocean tides, which built up the basin’s ridge-like periphery; and the inundation and sinking of parts of the central land mass some time in the eighth—twelfth centuries.
Of his novels, the best known is "Soul Mountain," a long, impressionistic, musing work that arose from a 10-month walking tour Mr. Gao took along the Yangzi River in 1986 following a period of increasing harassment from the Chinese authorities over the content of his plays.
2001, Cai Hua, “General Presentation”, in Asti Hustvedt, transl., A Society without Fathers or Husbands: the Na of China[6], New York: Zone Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 36:
The Jingsha[sic – meaning Jinsha] River, upriver from the Yangzi, cuts the region in two. The groups on the east side of the river, the NaRu, the Na, and the Nahing, understand one another.
The Buddhist monastery Guangjiao (Broad Teaching) for which Langshan was noted can be traced back to the Tang dynasty, when the hill it now stands on was still an island in the Yangzi, and a ferry was used for pilgrimages. Langshan subsequently became one of the earliest small towns in Nantong, for the thousands of visitors who were attracted by the monastery and the vistas of the river demanded restaurants, inns, snack shops, joss stick and candle shops, and other services.
Intensively cultivated and denuded of natural vegetation, the huge lowland flood-plains of major rivers, notably the Yellow and Yangzi, are a seemingly endless patchwork of fields.
The middle, most common, kind, was known as “anzhi,” or “peaceably established.” It was used against the poet and official Su Shi, who was found guilty of “great irreverence” for publishing poems critical of government policies in 1079 and sentenced to two years of village arrest in Huangzhou on the Yangzi River.
2018 August 13, Cang Wei, “Lake cleanup spurs crab farmer to organize tourism venture”, in China Daily[12], archived from the original on August 19, 2018, China[13]:
The Yangtze, China's longest river, was named for Yangzi township in Yangzhou, Jiangsu, during the Sui Dynasty (581-618). It runs through the southern part of Jiangsu to the East China Sea.
