Jialing


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Jia·ling

 (jyä′lĭng′)
A river, about 1000 km (620 mi) long, of central China rising in Gansu province and flowing south to the Yangtze River at Chongqing.
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The foundation of the Hungarian State was celebrated with a one-hour celebratory animated light show displayed on the walls of nine skyscrapers towering above the banks of the Jialing River.
Raffles City Chongqing locates at Chaotianmen which is one of the city's most popular attractions and serves as the best site for visitors to enjoy the splendor waterfront sceneries if the convergence of Yangtze and Jialing rivers.
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Thick fog hangs above the murky waters of the Yangtze and the Jialing Rivers snaking far below.
An army of 6,000 construction workers is hard at work at a large site overlooking the conflux of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in the south-western Chinese megacity of Chongqing.
The conference centre is situated across river Jialing, the banks of which were also massively lit up.