In terms of raw numbers, the Yangtze-Huai River floods of 1931 may have killed 2 million people, but that tragedy unfolded over four months. No single day in history has ever recorded a higher ...

Life expectancy north of the Huai River is 5.5 years lower than in the south due to air pollution (life expectancy in China is 75.3 years, according to 2013 UN figures). Severe water contamination ...

By the turn of the first millennium, The Bian Canal (607AD) had already made Huai’an a wealthy trading port. And when the Yellow River changed its course in the 1100s, the fourth largest ...

On the seventh day of the seventh month, at the Bamboo Pavilion by the Huai River, their fates intertwine like the sheaths of two swords, never to be separated. They pick up the most heartwarming ...