China boasts 50，000 rivers，each having a drainage area of over 100 square kilometers or 38．6 square miles．Of the 50,000 rivers，1,500 of them drain an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers or 386 square miles each．Most of them flow from west to east to empty into the Pacific Ocean．

Major rivers include the Yangtze River(6,300 kilometers or 3912.3 miles)，the Yellow River(5,464 kilometers or 3,393.1 miles)，the Heilongiiang River(3,101 kilometers or 1,925．7 miles)，the Pearl River (2,215．8 kilometers or 1,376 miles), the Liaohe River(1,390 kilometers or 863.19 miles)，the Haihe River(1,090 kilometers or 676.9 miles), the Qiantang River(605 kilometers or 375.7 miles)and the LaIlcallg River (4，688 kilometers or 2，911．25 miles；2，354 kilometers or 1，461．8 miles within the boundaries of China)．The 6,300一kilometer-long Yangtze River is the longest river in China．The second longest river is the Yellow River totaling 5，465 kilometers．The Grand Canal from Hangzhou，Zhejiang Province to Bebing，the capital of the People’s Republic of China，was a great water project in ancient China．It covers a distance of 1，794 kilometers (or 1114 miles)，making it the longest canal throughout the world．