12-3  Drainage Area of Rivers
River	Drainage
	Area	Percentage
	(sq.km)	to Total (%)
Total of Out-flowing Rivers and Inland Rivers	9506678	100.00
Out-flowing Rivers	6150927	64.70
Heilongjiang River and Suifenhe River	934802	9.83
Liaohe, Yalujiang and Related Coastal Rivers	314146	3.30
Haihe River and Luanhe River	320041	3.37
Huanghe River (Yellow River)	752773	7.92
Huaihe and Related Coastal Rivers in Shandong Province	330009	3.47
Changjiang River (Yangtze River)	1782715	18.75
Rivers in Zhejiang, Fujian and Taiwan Provinces	244574	2.57
Zhujiang River (Pearl River) and Related Coastal River	578974	6.09
Yuanjiang River and Lancang River	240389	2.53
Nujiang River and West Yunnan Rivers	157392	1.66
Brahmaputra and Southern Tibet Rivers	387550	4.08
Western Tibet Rivers	58783	0.62
Ertix River	48779	0.51
Inland Rivers	3355751	35.30
Rivers in Inner Mongolia	311378	3.28
Rivers in Huanghe Upper Reach Area	469843	4.94
Rivers in Zhunger Basin	323621	3.40
Rivers in Central Asia	77757	0.82
Rivers in Tarim Basin	1079643	11.36
Rivers in Qinghai Province	321161	3.38
Rivers in Qiangtang	730077	7.68
Blind Drainage Areas of Songhua River, Huanghe	42271	0.44
River and Southern Tibet
a) Figures in this table are obtained from Ministry of Water Resources, and are from the second water resources evaluation between 2002 and 2005.