What is the Pearl River? How China's second largest river transformed Lingnan!

China's second-largest river isn't the Yellow River.

It's the Pearl River.

The Pearl River, entrenched in Lingnan, is the"mother river" of the entire Lingnan region.

Yet, there are very few stories about the Pearl River.

During our research, the characteristics of the PearlRiver basin always surprise us.

It isn't a single main stem, but a three-riverconfluence;

It doesn't have a single estuary, but a complex deltanetwork bursting through "eight gateways to thesea".

Its source is an underground river. 

Its basin is almost entirely mountainous and hilly. Ithas no snowmelt water supply, but it is a super riverwith an annual runoff second only to the YangtzeRiver.

Fate gave the Pearl River a low starting point andthen placed numerous obstacles before it.

The Pearl River defies all odds – blocked by athousand mountains, it carves its way through them;faced with ten thousand waves, it battles againstthem!

The Pearl River has nurtured such people—LiuSanjie in the upper reaches, Huang Feihong in thePearl River Estuary... 

These Pearl River natives are daring andadventurous, with an unyielding character. And sotoo is the homeland they have shaped!

So, on this land, you will see a China that has beenflowing for thousands of years, a China full ofvitality and creativity!

Welcome to watch《What is the Pearl River》, co-produced by Poly Development Holdings andInstitute for Planet, and dive into the Pearl River'sepic saga!

Source: Institute for Planets