Tarim River Travel Guide

The Tarim River is confluence by the Aksu River, Yarkand River from Tianshan Mountain and Hetian River. Its the longest inland river in China  which almost spans the basin with a lengthabout 2100 kilometers, moisturizes the ambient oasis with numerous rivers and lakes.

Tarim River basin situated the inland with dry climate, scarce precipitation, intensive evaporation, water shortage, and extremely fragile. ecological environment. As a result, China's Tarim River basin lost more than 12,000 square kilometers of farm land between 1960 and 1990. Tarim River is a dissipative inner river whose middle reach is characterized by very arid climate, and rare precipitation.
Tarim River is a dissipative inner river whose middle reach is characterized by very arid climate, and rare precipitation. The water flow rate is big differences due to the seasons changes.  The melting glaciers have increased the amount of water in rivers when every hot summer comes.

Improvement of the upstream and the midstream of Tarim River, recovery and reconstruction of the downstream of Tarim River, the key is to grow Populus euphratica which is only species which forms forest in the lower reaches of Tarim River and to built water conservancy facilities along the river basin. Now, after a series of measures to facilitate integrated environmental control. The Tarim River basin area gets better and better.