Lake Aydin
Lake Aiding is located in the south of the Turpan Basin in Xinjiang, and is the lowest point in the Chinese land. It is also the world's second only to the Dead Sea and the world of Azera. Three low-lying land, lake bottom elevation of -154.31 meters. Aiding Lake ancient known as the "feel Luo Huan", Uighur call it Ai Ding Kule, meaning moonlight lake, because the edge is a layer of white saline, crystal white, looks like moonlight. Lake Aiding is located in the hinterland of the Turpan Basin, about 35 km from the city of Turpan, about 40 km from the lake, about 8 km north-south, 200 square kilometers of lake basin, 249 million years ago the Himalayas Of the orogeny formed, was a nearly 50,000 square kilometers of inland sea, once blue waves, vast majestic. In the winter of 1948, the lake basin was filled with fresh water, the lake mainly rely on the snow to melt the mountains, and groundwater supplement, in winter due to farmland irrigation water less water level; summer due to agricultural water consumption, evaporation is also large, The As a result of agricultural development, population water consumption also increased, coupled with the greenhouse effect caused by the warming trend of the Earth, to 1958, the lake has been reduced to less than 22 square kilometers, less than 0 water depth.