The Taklamakan Desert, China’s largest desert, in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region: professionals visiting for fourth national census of cultural relics.

The Taklamakan Desert, China's largest desert and located in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, was once the central stage for numerous legends along the ancient Silk Road.

The Taklamakan Desert, often called the “sea of death,” covers 130,350 square miles (337,600 square kilometers), with 85% dominated by shifting sand dunes.

As early as July 2021 there had been reports that an oil field located in the Takla Makan Desert was flooded, with over 300 square kilometers of land in the region going under water.

China's largest desert is now encircled by thousands of trees. The forest currently stretches over about 2,000 miles around the Taklamakan desert in China's northwestern region of Xinjiang.

China completed its deepest borehole to date, the Shenditake 1, located in the Tarim Basin within the Taklamakan Desert of Xinjiang, reaching a depth of 10,910 meters.

China has finished a 46-year campaign to encircle its largest desert with trees, ... (2,000 miles) around the Taklamakan was completed on Thursday in the northwestern region of Xinjiang, ...

Chinese Military Practicing Strikes On US Fighter Jet Replicas In Taklamakan Desert, Satellite Images Show: 'Warning Against The ... Scientists decipher 3,000-year-old map to find 'location of ...

BAZHOU, China, Nov. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- To improve the reliability of the power supply through transmission lines in the Taklamakan Desert, on November 14th, technicians from State Grid ...

Drilling on a new swath of ultra-deep crude oil wells in the depths of the Taklamakan Desert, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has started after the Spring Festival holiday, the ...

China has encircled the Taklamakan desert, the country’s largest and the world’s second-largest shifting desert, with a 3,050-kilometre green belt of vegetation and sand-blocking technology ...