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published in(发表于) 2014/6/24 8:42:00
Explore dead sea Lop Nur： has become the world’s largest potassium base

Xinhuanet, Wulumuqi, June 24 (reporter Liu Jie)-along the ancient Silk Road, from Hami city of Xinjiang to Southwest direction across the vast Gobi desert, progressive view is an endless, barren desert, it is "the sea of death" in Lop Nur.

Lop Nur, called "you Ze" "Pu Changhai" "Rob Nur", North of the loulancheng of the ancient Silk Road, its Western "throat". According to the historian · dawan chuan and hanshu · by records, long before the Second century AD, loulan was the Western region known as the "city of the country", it East through Dunhuang, Northwest Yanqi and Yuli, southwest to ruoqiang, qiemo.

Former sparkling, if-like desert of Lop Nur used to be China's second largest lake, since the 70 's of last century after dry, that is regarded by the world "life area". With the passage of time, and exploration and scientific investigation, resource development, and activities continues to grow, gradually lifting the veil of mystery of Lop Nur.

Drivers told reporters from Hami, a dozen years ago, entered the Lop Nur has no man-made road, go from here depends on the driver's experience. Today, Hello good roads leading to the hinterland of Lop Nur, from Hami to just more than four hours in the middle of Lop Nur, the road is still connected with national highway 315, to arrive in hotan, Kashi, Qinghai, Gansu and other places.

Driving on the Harrow road, although the scenery along the drab, except desert wasteland is the Hill of gravel, but the coming and going of trucks, pickup trucks, SUVs and other stream.

Journeys of more than 400 kilometers, after a rather bumpy road paved with simple, some offices and production facility jumps into the eye, it is this new XING Cheng Zhen-the town of Lop nor in the desert and the world's largest production base for potassium, the rumble of noisy machinery makes this years of dormancy of land suddenly thriving.

In the dry lake bed of Lop Nur, is rich in potash resource. Potash is a great shortage of mineral resources, their products are agriculture, industry, medicine, building materials and other industries important for production of raw materials. To ease domestic potash demand, national investment and development company since 2000, potash resources in Lop Nur region development.

With the large-scale development of sylvite, thyme Salt River here reproduce rippling and boundless expanse of salt ponds. Journalists in brine scene, natural brine from underground pumped well out of it, through a pale green after the salt water into an area of more than 100 square kilometres of Salt Lake; production workshops, the staff deftly manipulated the various automation equipment in potash outward starting point, a big truck long team.

According to sdic Xinjiang's Lop Nur sylvite company limited introduced Yin Xinbin, Deputy General Manager, the company relies on its technological strength and developed a world leading "potassium sulfate type brine in Lop Nur, magnesium sulfate Asia" technology, with an annual output of 1.2 million tons of high quality potassium sulfate. Today, it has become the world's largest production base for potassium, substantially increasing the self-sufficiency rate of China's potash.

Because of resource development projects and gradually increase, population continues to increase, Lop Nur town created in April 2002, its administrative area of about 50,000 square kilometers, is the largest town in the country.

Lop Nur, Deputy Director Liu Wenchun says, the town was first established, town Governments held in tents, Wo Zi, Tin, color sample in the Office, when the hottest surface temperature in summer can reach more than 70 degrees, sat in the House of sweat DC, drinking water from hundreds of Sinotrans in, power interruption, no communication facilities, staff are only a few ... ...

Now, Lop Nur has built a three-storey office building of the Government of the town, street, sidewalk, Internet, sewage systems and other infrastructure, staff, clinics, police stations and other related departments of the Government at 32, traders in the town, working personnel is also increasing.

Journalists in the town of Lop Nur seen, although not many people in the town, but nearly hundreds of types of transport vehicles, urinated before, salt blocks of stores, small restaurants, hotels, also moved to the town, next to the newly created city of Lop Nur. Not far from the town of Lop Nur, is Hello Railway (between Hami and Lop Nur) end in the station after the opening of the station, Lop Nur sylvite will be sold all over the country at a faster rate.

Liu Wenchun says there are now more than 10 companies engaged in mining enterprises stationed in Lop Nur sylvite resources development and mineral resources. After dry, desolate, lonely, today, many years later, Lop Nur town booming development, hot development of sylvite resources, makes this "sea of death" once again showed the "sea of hope" style.

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