Chishui River (Chinese: 赤水河; pinyin: Chìshuǐ Hé; historically, 赤水; Chìshuǐ[1]) is a major tributary of the upper Yangtze.

Its name literally means "red water river"/"red river"[a] because it shows reddish color in lower stream due to a large sediment concentration.

With the source in Yunnan Province, it forms part of the boundary between the provinces of Guizhou and Sichuan and flows into Yangtze River in Sichuan.

[citation needed] It is also known as the field of a major battle (the Four Crossing of Chishui) commanded by Mao Zedong in 1935 during the Long March of the Red Army.

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