I. Geographic Crucible: Asia’s Pivotal Endorheic Artery Flowing relentlessly through the Taklamakan Desert – Earth’s second-largest shifting-sand desert – the Tarim River traverses 1,321 kilometers across northwestern China, anchoring the largest inland river basin in the country encompassing over 1 million square kilometers. Its watershed extends from the Kunlun-Pamir knot where tectonic collisions birth glaciers sustaining continental hydrology, descending through hyper-arid basins receiving merely 50 […]
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As we all know, Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, an important central city in Northwest China and an international trade center for Central Asia and West Asia. Urumqi is a Mongolian phonetic translation, meaning “graceful pasture”. It was originally a nomadic area of the Heshuote Ministry of Western Mongolia. In the […]