Meaning of Mangnai | Babel Free

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A county-level city of Haixi prefecture, Qinghai, China.

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“The border⟳ of the great north-west province of Xinjiang, a region three times the size of France, lay⟳ at the mining town of Mangnai, fifty miles beyond where I was sleeping. This was an old, feared frontierland - High Tartary or Chinese Turkestan - one sixth of all China now, which barged up against Central Asia. But at Mangnai the road roughened to a stone trail, where trucks, even my bus, gave up.”

“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.”

“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.”

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