Lenghu
English
Alternative forms
- (from Wade–Giles) Leng-hu
Etymology
From Mandarin 冷湖.
Proper noun
Lenghu
- A town in Mangnai, Haixi prefecture, Qinghai, China.
- 1993 August, Wang, Miao; 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, Hong Kong: HK China Tourism Press, →ISBN, OCLC 966025328, 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, 1st edition, Encyclopedia Britannica, →ISBN, LCCN 2010022143, OCLC 631751212, 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, Chen, Laurie, “China opens ‘Mars camp’ for researchers, tourists and plans to send rover to red planet”, in South China Morning Post, archived from the original on 03 March 2019, Science:
- 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.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Lenghu.
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Translations
town
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Further reading
- Lenghu in Encyclopædia Britannica