Poyang Lake, Jiangxi 江西鄱阳湖
Poyang Lake in northern Jiangxi is the largest freshwater lake in China. It gathers the waters of five rivers – the Gan, Fu, Xin, Rao and Xiu – and drains into the Yangtze at Hukou. Its level rises and falls enormously with the seasons: in summer a vast sheet of water, in winter it shrinks to reveal wide grassy flats and shallows, an important wintering ground for Siberian cranes and other migratory birds.
