For adventure seekers, the qaidam basin offers a rare opportunity to traverse terrain that resembles another planet without leaving the chinese mainland. Although recent studies have shown that desertification in northwestern china has generally improved, that in the qaidam basin has intensified (wang et al., 2018). The qaidam, tsaidam, or chaidamu basin is a hyperarid basin that occupies a large part of haixi prefecture in qinghai province, china.
The qaidam basin is the northeastern section of the plateau of tibet, occupying the northwestern part of qinghai province, western china. Qaidam basin is china’s highest and most evaporative inland basin situated in the border area of the provinces of qinghai, gansu and the autonomous region of xinjiang. The qaidam basin is the largest cenozoic sedimentary basin on the tibetan plateau, situated in the northeastern part of the plateau within qinghai province, northwestern china.
The best time to visit is from late. The qinghai oilfield, exploited since 1954, includes the lenghu,. Beneath the salt, qaidam is one of china's nine most important petroliferous basins and its largest center of onshore production. The basin lies in a crescent.