Yalong River 雅砻江
（重定向自Yalong Jiang）
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The Yalong River (Chinese: 雅砻江, p Yǎlóngjiāng, w Ya-lung Chiang) or Nyag Chu (*****: ཉག་ཆུ་, z Nyag Qu) is an 822-mile (1,323 km) long river in Sichuan province in southwestern China. It is a tributary of the Yangtze River. Its source is on the *****-Qinghai Plateau in southeast Qinghai, and its confluence with the Yangtze is in Panzhihua in southwestern Sichuan.