Question: is the yellow river the same as the yangtze river?
Answer: Two great rivers run through China Proper: the Yellow River in the north, and the Yangtze (or Yangzi ) River to the south. In fact, most of China Proper belongs to the drainage-basins of these two rivers. Both originate to the far west in the Tibetan Plateau. ... And for long periods, the Huai River emptied into the sea.