LENG-HU

Pinyin Lenghu, town, northwestern Tsinghai sheng (province), western China. Leng-hu is situated in the northwestern part of the Tsaidam Basin, to the southwest of Tang-chin Pass, which leads from the Tsaidam into western Kansu province and to the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang. Leng-hu is one of the major centres of the oil fields developed in the Tsaidam Basin during the 1960s and has its own refinery. It is also linked by a highway with the western Tsaidam oil field around Mang-ya, and by pipeline with oil fields to the northwest of Y-men. Another highway links it with Golmud in the south-central Tsaidam Basin and with Hsi-ning in the east. Pop. (1982 est.) 17,000.