Golmud

Golmud (Chinese: 格尔木; Hanyu pinyin : Ge' ermu ; Tibetan: Gormo, ན ་ གོར ་ མོ ་; Wylie: Na-gor-Mo)) is a city of the province Qinghai in China. It is a city-county placed under the jurisdiction of the Mongolian autonomous Préfecture and Tibetan of Haixi.

History

After having annexed the Tibet, China separated the Amdo like the new province from the Qinghai, made central plate and is Kham, the Autonomous region of Tibet, the remaining parts of Tibet were amalgamated in the Chinese provinces of the Sichuan, the Yunnan and the Gansu. The town of Golmud (Gormo) was in the Amdo, province of the North-East of the Tibet.

Geography

Its surface is of: 123460 km ². It is located on the road Xining - Lhassa.

Mining

In the surroundings of the city, potassium salt mining were carried out in an intensive way, and left room to a metal gray landscape and having left a desert ground.

Demography

The population of the county was of: 90173 inhabitants in 1999, and was estimated at: 107000 inhabitants in 2005.

Annecdote

The Chinese writer My Jian which fled the risks of imprisonments related to the fight campaign “against the middle-class liberalization” of Deng Xiao Ping, hides in the areas Tibetans and will write a poem with Golmud in his book Chemins of red dust , ED. paddle, 2005.

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