Citations:Lenghu

English citations of Lenghu

• 1993 August, Miao Wang, Shi Bao Xiu, “Buried Cities and Shifting Sands — Onward to Dunhuang”, in Tu Nai Hsien, editor, From the Pamirs to Beijing: Tracing Marco Polo's Northern Route‎^[1], Hong Kong: HK China Tourism Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 63:

  At Niubiziliang we returned to the embrace of the Altun Mountains, then turning eastward we soon reached Lenghu, an oil city in Qinghai Province.
  The city of Lenghu was originally a salt lake. Located at a high altitude and in a frigid zone, it has no vegetation. The discovery of oil, however, has brought both people and vitality to this barren area. Today there are shopping arcades, cinemas, a TV station and hotels, but still one sees neither animals nor plants anywhere.
  Departing from Lenghu our car climbed up Dangjin Pass, the main passage leading to Gansu Province.

• 2011, “Major and Other Notable Deserts of the World”, in John P. Rafferty, editor, Deserts and Steppes‎^[2], 1st edition, Encyclopedia Britannica, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:

  A number of oil fields are in operation, notably in the Mangnai area in the western part of the basin. A large oil refinery has been constructed at Lenghu, southwest of Dangjin Pass, and another has been built at Mangnai.

• 2019 March 4, Laurie Chen, “China opens ‘Mars camp’ for researchers, tourists and plans to send rover to red planet”, in South China Morning Post‎^[3], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 March 2019, Science‎^[4]:

  Spanning 32 hectares (80 acres), the base is situated 60km (37 miles) from the town of Lenghu near the upper reaches of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, an arid desert region dubbed “the place on Earth that is most unlike being on Earth”, according to camp manager Gao Junling. […]
  But the “Mars village” was originally proposed by the local government in 2017 as a cultural and educational centre for science, popular science and science fiction, according to Ma Wenwu, a member of the Mangnai city committee, which oversees Lenghu.

• 2023 May 10, “Xinhua Headlines: China develops cutting-edge observatory on "roof of the world"”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency‎^[5], archived from the original on 2023-05-10‎^[6]:

  Lenghu, a tiny town with about 500 permanent residents at an average altitude of 2,800 meters, will soon draw worldwide stargazers with a state-of-the-art observatory site located in northwest China's Qinghai Province. […]
  "With the new observatory in sight, Lenghu is gaining popularity and attracting more tourists," said Zhang Jing, who works at a hotel in Lenghu town.