Green development of Chinese largest salt lake helps boost productivity

STORY: Green development of Chinese largest salt lake helps boost productivity DATELINE: June 19, 2022 LENGTH: 00:00:40 LOCATION: XINING, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY/ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Chaerhan Salt Lake 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LIU WANPING, Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Research and Development Center of Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Co., Ltd., STORYLINE: Chaerhan Salt Lake is China's largest salt lake located in the Qaidam Basin of northwest China's Qinghai Province. It is rich in natural resources, including potassium and magnesium. Through green development, the lake could produce 8 million tonnes of potassium chloride, 110,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate and 1.69 million tonnes of industrial salt annually. Its potash fertilizer industry also leads the world. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): LIU WANPING, Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Research and Development Center of Qinghai Salt Lake Industry Co., Ltd., "Chaerhan Salt Lake is the largest soluble potassium-magnesiu