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Fukien’s rivers are still in use for transportation. The headwaters of the Chin River, a tributary of the Fu-t’un River, are navigable for small boats right up to the Wu-i Mountains, despite the river’s rocky channel and many rapids; boats bring downstream the tea grown on the slopes of the mountains. Below Chien-ning, larger boats of special construction are employed for the tea trade.
...commonly used for the whole system, properly applies only to the lower course of the river below Nanping, where it cuts through the coastal ranges. Above this are the headwaters—the Futun and Jin rivers, which flow from the mountain ranges to the west—and two tributaries that drain the major interior valley basin of the province, the Sha River (flowing from the southwest through...
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