List of longest rivers of China

China has 228 rivers with drainage basins larger than 10,000 square kilometres, with a combined length of 132,500 kilometres. Their annual runoff ranks 6th in the world. Three of the world's ten longest rivers flow through China.
Rivers in China can originate from three main regions: Southeast of Tibetan Plateau, where most longest rivers in China origined; the corridor between Da Hinggan Range, Hebei and Shanxi mountains, Western Henan mountains, and Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau - rivers here generally have relatively small discharges; and the corridor between Changbai Mountain, Shandong hills, and southeastern coastal ranges - rivers origins here are generally has shorter and smaller drainage basins than the former two, but carry abundant water.
Most rivers in China are exorheic, which flow into the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean. They flow into the Pacific Ocean, which occupied 56.7% of the total land. The area of Greater Khingan-Yin Mountains-Helan Mountains-Eastern Qilian Mountains-Bayan Har Mountains-Gangdise Shan divide China's endorheic and exorheic regions. Rivers west of the area are mostly endorheic: While the rivers cover one-third of the country's land area, they contain less than 5% of the total water.
There are seven drainage systems in China. From north to south, they are: Songhua River, Liao River, Hai River, Yellow River, Huai River, Yangtze, and Pearl River. They occupy most rivers in China.。
This list includes rivers that flow through China with main stems at least 1,000 km long. Transboundary rivers whose length within China is shorter than 1,000 km are not included.

Rivers

The list number is based on the . Numbers vary between sources due to differences in the definition of a river's source or the methods used to measure its length. The list will note figures from other sources if they differ by more than 10%.
In this list, only river length, drainage areas, and discharge within China are counted. The number of rivers outside China, i.e. transboundary rivers, is given in parentheses.
indicated that parts of the river crossed Chinese boundaries.

#	Name	Length of main stem	Flowing area	Flowing regions in China	Annual flow rate	Flow into	Coordinate of its river mouth	Picture	Citations
1		6300+	1800000	Qinghai, Sichuan, Tibet, Yunnan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai	9150	East China Sea
2	Yellow River	5464	813400	Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong	580	Bohai Sea
3	Heilong River			Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang		Strait of Tartary
4	Tarim River	2572		Xinjiang	49	Taitema Lake
5	Songhua River	2309	556800	Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jilin	783.97	Heilong River
6	Pearl River	2214		Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Guangdong	3264	South China Sea
7	Lancang River			Tibet, Yunnan,		South China Sea
8	Yarlung Tsangpo			Tibet,	1649（6179）	Ganges
9	Nu River			Tibet, Yunnan,		Andaman Sea
10	Han River	1577	159000	Shaanxi, Hubei	566	Yangtze
11	Yalong River	1535	128439	Qinghai, Sichuan	571	Yangtze（Jinsha River）
12	Liao River	1345	219600	Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Liaoning	137.2	Bohai Sea
13	Yu River	1157		Yunnan, Guangxi	476.7	Pearl River（Xun River）
14	Hotan River	1138	48870	Xinjiang	10.28	Tarim River
15	Hai River	1122	234618	Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shandong	226	Bohai Sea
16	Jialing River	1120	159800	Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Chongqing	659	Yangtze
17	Dadu River	1060	90700	Qinghai, Sichuan	495	Min River
18	Wu River	1037	87920	Guizhou, Chongqing	509	Yangtze
19	Yuan River	1033	89647	Hunan, Guizhou	671	Dongting Lake
20	Huai River	1000	270000	Henan, Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu	595	Yangtze, etc

Canals

China is one of the oldest civilisations constructing canals, with the oldest canal of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The largest water transfer scheme in the world is the South–North Water Transfer Project in China.

#	Name	Length of main canal	Cities flowing through	Main endpoint	Picture
1		1801	Beijing、Tianjin、Hebei、Shandong、Jiangsu、Zhejiang	, Qiantang River
2		1432	Henan、Hebei、Tianjin、Beijing	Danjiangkou Reservoir, Tuancheng Lake, Outer Ring Canal of Tianjin
3		1156	Jiangsu、Shandong、Hebei、Tianjin	, Tianjin