Do you know the most desolate town in China?

Fiona Fang, the most desolate town in China, has a desert of 250 kilometers, but it supports hundreds of millions of people in China. This town is Lop Nur. Lop Nur Town was founded in 2002 with a history of only 20 years. This is a very young town, located in the northeast of Xialuo County, Bayinguoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang. Bayinguoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture covers an area of 47 1500 square kilometers, which is equivalent to the area of 4.5 Jiangsu provinces. It is the largest city-state administrative region in China. Its land area in Ruoqiang County has also reached 202,000 square kilometers, equivalent to the area of two Jiangsu provinces, and it is the county-level administrative region with the largest land area in China. The land area of Lop Nur Town under the weak line has reached 5 1 000 square kilometers, which is equivalent to eight Shanghai or half Jiangsu. Lop Nur Town is also the largest township administrative region in China.

Lop Nur Town is about 420 kilometers long from east to west and 230 kilometers wide from north to south. Taklimakan Desert, the largest desert in China, is in the east, Kubutag Desert in Altun Mountain in the south, and Gobi Desert in Nanhu Lake, Turpan Basin and Kuruktag Mountain in the north. The surrounding natural environment is very bad. It is precisely because of the harsh geographical environment that Lop Nur, a huge town, has a permanent population of just over 4,300, and the average population density of 10 square kilometer is only one person, which is only 1500% of the national average. Lop Nur Town is about 420km northwest of Korla, 320km northeast of Hami, Xinjiang, and 250km south of Mangya, Qinghai Province. Lop Nur Town, within 250km of Fiona Fang, is a desert Gobi, inaccessible and extremely desolate.

Lop Nur Town is named after Lop Nur and is located in Lop Nur. I believe everyone will be familiar with it. It was here that China's first atomic bomb and first hydrogen bomb exploded successfully. The shape of radish looks like an ear in the air, so it is called the ear of the earth, and it is also called the sea of death because of its harsh geographical environment. Lop Nur was once a huge desert saltwater lake. In ancient times, many rivers flowed into Lop Nur, where blue waves rippled and water plants were abundant, which gave birth to splendid ancient civilization. Loulan is an ancient country, and it is one of the seven great powers in the western regions that lasted for more than 600 years. The ancient country of Loulan is the traffic artery on the ancient Silk Road, and the central region goes by land. The only way to East Asia, South Asia, West Asia and Europe, and with the changes of history, Roland, an ancient country, finally disappeared in the long river of history. With the change of climate and geographical environment, Lop Nur also dried up completely in the 1970s, leaving only a trace of ear marks. After drying up, Lop Nur is a highly salinized sandy land, where nothing grows, birds and animals are extinct, the surrounding climate is unpredictable, the summer is extremely hot, the winter is extremely cold, and it hardly rains all the year round. This is one of the most desolate and dangerous areas in China.

Then why does Lop Nur have to feed hundreds of millions of China people? At the end of last century, after more than ten years of hard exploration and investigation, a team of geological experts in China discovered a super-large liquid potassium salt deposit with a reserve of more than 500 million tons on the edge of Lop Nur, which is the largest potassium salt deposit of sulfate brine discovered so far in the world and is a potassium sulfate fertilizer necessary for agricultural production. China is the largest producer and consumer of grain in the world, and the total population of China exceeds 654.38+0.4 billion. Food security is very important for China, which is the foundation of the country. I believe that many China people of the older generation have experienced the era of food shortage. At one time, most of the potash fertilizer needed for agricultural production in China was imported. After development, the output of potash fertilizer in Lop Nur Town increased from 200,000 tons to 2 million tons. It accounts for about 1/3 of the national total output, greatly alleviating China's dependence on imported potash fertilizer, making great contributions to China's agricultural production, directly related to the food needs of hundreds of millions of people in China, and adding a touch of vitality to the death of the four seas. Lop Nur Town, though extremely desolate, has no green mountains and green waters and flocks of cattle and sheep, but it is a rare land of geomantic omen in China.