1 | Over 360 million people live within the watershed of the Yangtze River. | |
2 | Over the past decades, the Yangtze River Basin has become hotter. | |
3 | "Chongqing is building itself into the economic center for the upper Yangtze River area, " Mayor Huang Qifan said. | |
4 | The northwest, northeast and Yangtze River area will see temperatures fall at least 8 to 12 degrees Celsius and snow is also forecast. | |
5 | The rains were abnormally heavy -- the Yangtze basin had 15 percent more rainfall in 2010 than in an average year. |