YANGTSE RIVER.

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Chinese-language guide to channel navigation and signals for piloting the lower reaches of the river (Wusong to Hanyang). A scarce handbook, unrecorded institutionally, issued by the Nanjing port authorities after the 1955 modernization of signals in the 1,000-kilometre lower Yangtse. The charts and tables give information on every light, as well as distances, wind signals and anchorages for shelter, tides, and traffic control markers.Between 1953 and 1955, the government oversaw changes along the entire stretch of the river, introducing Soviet-style systems and, for the first time, making the whole of the middle and lower stretches safely navigable at night.

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