Why is the Yangtze River called the "golden waterway"?

The main reason why the Yangtze River is called "golden waterway" is "high shipping value".

The specific reasons are as follows:

1. In recent years, due to the rapid economic development in China and the continuous improvement of navigation channels along the Yangtze River, the Yangtze River has developed rapidly in the 2nd1century and has become the largest and busiest navigable river in the world.

2. Yangtze River shipping has also made great progress and new breakthroughs in port throughput, ship capacity and security. The Yangtze River is a veritable "golden waterway" because it is not frozen all year round.

3. There are more than 3,600 navigable rivers in the Yangtze River Basin, with a total navigable mileage of about 7× 10km (of which 5.7× 10km is navigable with water depth above 0.7m), accounting for 70% of the navigable mileage of inland rivers in China, and all the transportation network density indexes are higher than the national average level. The transportation network density per 10,000 people is 50% higher than the national average, and the transportation network density per 100km is more than three times that of the national average, and the comprehensive density and economic correlation density are more than two times that of the national average, which shows the advantages of the Yangtze River shipping network and its position and role in the national inland waterway.