Related News
China's largest desert freshwater lake expands in 2016
Online Edition
HONGJIANNAO Lake, China's largest desert freshwater lake, expanded in 2016 for the first time in a decade.
The surface area of the lake, located in Shenmu County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, stood at 32.94 square kilometers by the end of last year, up around 4.5 percent year on year, according to statistics from the provincial remote sensing information center for agriculture.
The lake, sandwiched between the Muus Desert in Shaanxi and the Erdos Plateau in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, saw its water level retreat by 30 to 60 centimeters a year since 2006.
In 2015, it shrank to less than 32 square kilometers. At its largest, the lake covered 67 square kilometers in 1969.
Significant increase in precipitation, including artificial rainfall, as well as more water from reservoirs upstream, contributed to the lake's expansion.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
