| 1 | The giant panda is native to the Yangtze Basin in China and it's estimated that there are less than 2,500 pandas in the wild. | |
| 2 | Apart from being a departure point for Yangtze River cruises, Chongqing had little to see. | |
| 3 | "It' s the dragon river, " he said, using the Yangtze' s nickname, "and they cut it in half." | |
| 4 | The plans call for sending 45 trillion liters (12 trillion gallons) of water a year from the Yangtze to the north. | |
| 5 | The Three Gorges Dam - whose construction on the nearly 4, 000-mile-long Yangtze was responsible for much of Chongqing' s growth - gnawed at him. |