The Yellow River or Huang He is the "mother waterway of China". Its bowl was the focal point of Chinese legislative issues, economy and society for more than 2,000 years. It is the second-longest waterway in China (after the Yangtze), and 6th longest on the planet. 

The Yellow River is the second longest waterway in China and the support of Chinese human advancement as the Nile is support of Egyptian progress. It begins in Tibet - like the Yangtze, China's biggest waterway, and the Mekong River - and gets almost 45 percent of its water from ice sheets and incomprehensible underground springs of the Qinghai-Tibet level. From Tibet it streams for 5,464 kilometers (around 3,400 miles) through Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, the outskirt of Shaanxi and Shanxi, Henan and Shandong before it exhausts into Bo Hai Gulf in the Yellow Sea. 

The Yellow River is known as the Huang in China. It is moderate and slow along the majority of its course and some see it as the world's muddiest real waterway, releasing three times the residue of the Mississippi River. It gets its name and shading from the yellow residue it gets in the Shaanxi Loess Plateau . The Yellow River streams in plaited streams, a system of littler channles that weave all through each other. In every channel slt gradually constructs the riverbed over the encompassing scene and gives the stream its staggering propensity for breaking its banks and evolving course, 

The Yellow River is a basic to making northern China inhabitable. It supplies water to 155 million individuals, or 12 percent of the Chinese populace, and waters 18 million sections of land - 15 percent of China's farmland. More than 400 million individuals live in the Yellow River bowl. Agrarian social orders showed up on its banks over 7,000 years back. Sites: Wikipedia University of Massachusetts U Mass Yellow River Conservancy Commission Yellow River Conservancy Commission Maps : China Highlights China Highlights