There's no magic in the Yangtse River any more than the Volga, Rhine or Hudson.

FORBES

The company makes industrial disc brakes, for such things as 2.5km lifts taking South African miners to and from their seams, and for a ship's lift on the Yangtse river.

ECONOMIST: Trial of strength

Earlier this year the baiji or Yangtse River Dolphin was declared probably extinct, and the Critically Endangered vaquita (Phocoena sinus) - another species restricted to a small, specific habitat - will follow suit without swift action, conservationists believe.

BBC: Finance woes put porpoise at risk