Secenry of the Tarim River

The longest inland river in China,the Tarim River is a confluence of the Yarkand River ,Khotan River,Aksu River the other tributaries. With a total length of 2179 kilometers, the river flows through the northern part of the Tarim Basin not only and pours itself into the Lop Desert at last. While large areas of natural desert poplar forest are well preserved inside the drainage area, new bases of grain and cotton production have been rising on both banks of the river. The Tarim Bridge not only connects two banks of the river, but also makes the desert highway a throughfare linking the southern and northern brims of the Tarim Basin across the Taklamakan Desert.