求简单的介绍黄河的英语短文

这个是很标准的黄河介绍，如果多的话可以删除一些；
The Yellow River or Huang He, is the second-longest river in China (after the Yangtze) and the sixth-longest in the world at the estimated length of 5,464 kilometers .Originating in the Bayan Har Mountains in Qinghai Province in western China, it flows through nine provinces of China and empties into the Bohai Sea. The Yellow River basin has an east-west extent of 1900 km and a north-south extent of 1100 km_ Its total basin area is 742,443 km²

The Yellow River is called "the cradle of Chinese civilization" as its basin was the birthplace of ancient Chinese civilizations and the most prosperous region in early Chinese history. However, to the Chinese, the river symbolize both "the greatness and sorrows"due to the frequent devastating floods and course changes,produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding fields.