Jingkou Guazhou Yishuijianshui refers to the Yangtze River. The Yangtze River (English name: the Changjiang River/the Yangtze River) originates from the southwest side of the Geladandong Peak of the Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the "Roof of the World". The main stream flows through 11 provincial administrative regions (eight provinces, two cities and one region) including Qinghai Province, Tibet Autonomous Region, Sichuan Province, Yunnan Province, Chongqing City, Hubei Province, Hunan Province, Jiangxi Province, Anhui Province, Jiangsu Province, and Shanghai City, and flows into the East China Sea east of Chongming Island. It is 6,387 kilometers long, ranking third in the world in terms of length, second only to the Nile River in Africa and the Amazon River in South America.