Korla

Korla, is a mid-sized city in central Xinjiang, and is, administratively, a county-level city and the seat of the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, which is larger than Great Britain and is the largest Chinese prefecture. Korla is known for its "fragrant" pears. History with thousands of years of history, Korla was an important staging post in the middle of the Silk Road, because of the bottleneck of the Iron Gate Pass between Yanqi and Korla. It was set up as a county early in 1940, as a prefecture in 1954, and merged into the Bayin'guoleng Mongolia Autonomous prefecture in 1960. Finally, it was approved as a city in October 1979. The land is higher in the north, sloping to the lower south in a fan-shaped oasis of fertility. The Kongque River has the whole of its course through the area. This tributary of the Tarim flows through the south of the urban area into the largest river basin in China, the Tarim Basin. To the north of Korla, there are the Tianshan Mountain’s branches-Kuluke Mountain and Hualashan Mountain, and to the south lies the Taklimakan Desert, the second-largest desert in the world.

Korla looks like a pearl strung with the rippling Kongque River. Korla is among the first batch of National Excellent Tourist Cities boasting many places worth seeing. The Kongque River springs from the Bosten Lake, pouring constantly over the west side of the lake. It was once an important river into Lop Nur nurtured the Ancient City of Loulan which is in full flourish two thousand years ago. Iron Gate Pass garrisons the outlet of the steep gorge in the upper reaches of Kongque River in nort