Lenghu

English Alternative forms en Leng-hu Wade-Giles Etymology From en cmn 冷湖. Pronunciation lŭng′ho͞o′ en uː 2 en Leng hu Proper noun en town county-level city/Mangnai autonomous prefecture/Haixi p/Qinghai c/China. en 1993 August Miao Wang; Shi Bao Xiu Tu Nai Hsien Buried Cities and Shifting Sands — Onward to Dunhuang From the Pamirs to Beijing: Tracing Marco Polo's Northern Route https://archive.org/details/frompamirstobeij0000wang/ Hong Kong HK China Tourism Press 962-7799-07-6 966025328 63 https://archive.org/details/frompamirstobeij0000wang/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. en 2011 Major and Other Notable Deserts of the World John P. Rafferty Deserts and Steppes https://archive.org/details/desertssteppes0000unse/ w:Encyclopedia Britannica 1st 9781615303175 2010022143 631751212 143 https://archive.org/details/desertssteppes0000unse/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. en 4 March 2019 Laurie Chen China opens ‘Mars camp’ for researchers, tourists and plans to send rover to red planet https://web.archive.org/web/20190303222615/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/2188446/china-opens-mars-camp-researchers-tourists-and-plans-send-rover 03 March 2019 w:South China Morning Post 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. en Translations town Chinese: Cantonese: yue 冷湖 Mandarin: cmn 冷湖 Lěnghú Japanese: ja Further reading Lenghu in Encyclopædia Britannica