1. Yangtze River 6387 kilometers. The Yangtze River originates from the Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai Province, and the Tuotuo River is its source river. The main stream flows through 11 provinces and regions, including Qinghai, Tibet, Sichuan, Yunnan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, and Shanghai. Among the world's major rivers, its length is second only to the Nile River in Africa and the Amazon River in South America, ranking third in the world. It is the longest river in Asia and the river with the largest drop and the largest hydropower in the world.

2. Yellow River 5464 kilometers. The Yellow River originates from the Bayan Har Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in Qinghai Province and is the second longest river in China. The main stream of the Yellow River flows through 9 provinces and regions, including Qinghai, Sichuan, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong, and finally flows into the Bohai Sea. The Yellow River is the most important birthplace of Chinese civilization and is China's "Mother River". The Yellow River has 1.2 billion tons of sediment flowing into the sea every year, making it the river with the most sand in the world.

3. Heilongjiang River 3,474 kilometers. Heilongjiang River is one of the largest rivers in Asia that flows through Mongolia, China and Russia. The Heilongjiang River has the Ergun River as its source in the south, with a total length of 4,440 kilometers, and flows into the Strait of Okhotsk in Nikolayevsk, Russia. The length of the river from the source of the Hailar River is 4,440 kilometers, and the length of the river from the source of the Kerulen River is about 5,498 kilometers. The Sino-Russian border river is 3,000 kilometers long. It is one of the ten largest rivers in the world.

4. Pearl River 2,400 kilometers. The Pearl River originates from the Ma Xiong Mountain of the Wumeng Mountain System in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, flows through Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Guangdong and northern Vietnam, and flows into the South China Sea from eight estuaries in the lower reaches. The Pearl River is the fourth longest river in China and the second largest river in China in terms of flow, which is 7 times the flow of the Yellow River.

5. Lancang River 2,179 kilometers. The Lancang River originates in the northeast of Tanggula Mountain in Qinghai Province, China, flows through Qinghai, Tibet, Yunnan, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and flows into the South China Sea in Saigon, Vietnam. It is the largest international river in Southeast Asia. The total length of the main stream is 4,880 km (including the length abroad). The Lancang River runs through the Hengduan Mountains and is the most typical north-south river in the world.

6. Yarlung Zangbo River 2,057 kilometers. The Yarlung Zangbo River originates in the Himalayas, flows through Tibet, India, Bangladesh, and flows into the Bay of Bengal. The Yarlung Zangbo River is the longest plateau river in China, and the Yarlung Zangbo Grand Canyon in the Great Bend Zone is the deepest and longest canyon in the world. Its upper reaches are the highest river in the world and the river with the steepest slope in China.

7. Tarim River 2,030 kilometers. The Tarim River originates from the Tianshan Mountains and the Karakoram Mountains, flows along the northern edge of the Taklimakan Desert, passes through the southern parts of Aksu, Shaya, Kuche, Luntai, Korla, Yuli and other counties (cities), and finally flows into Taitema Lake. The Tarim River is the longest inland river in China, the fifth largest inland river in the world, and the mother river in southern Xinjiang. The oasis south of the Tianshan Mountains is basically irrigated by the Tarim River.

8. Nujiang River 2013 kilometers. The Nujiang River originates from the southern foot of the Tanggula Mountains on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, flows through Tibet, Yunnan, and Myanmar, and finally flows into the Andaman Sea in the Indian Ocean. The total length from the source to the estuary is 3240 kilometers.

9. Liaohe River 1430 kilometers. The Liaohe River originates from Guangtou Mountain in Hebei Province, flows through Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, and Liaoning, and flows into the Bohai Sea.

10. Haihe River 1090 kilometers. The Haihe River originates in Changzhi City, Shanxi Province and is the largest river system in North China. The Haihe River flows through Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Shandong, Tianjin, and flows into the Bohai Sea.