Qilian Shan

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Qi•lian Shan

(ˈtʃiˈlyɑn ˈʃɑn)

n.
a mountain range in W China, bordered between Qinghai and Gansu provinces.
Formerly, Nan Shan.
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Liu H, Zhao WZ, He Z, Zhang L (2007) Stochastic modelling of soil moisture dynamics in a grassland of Qilian Mountain at point scale.
yesterday afternoon, a 93-year-old man surnamed Hou accidentally plowed his silver Mercedes-Benz up onto the platform of the Qilian MRT station in Taipei's Beitou District.
A subsequent meeting between Chinese State Councilor and Defence Minister Chang Wanquan and Afghan Minister of Defense Tariq Shah Bahrami, as well as Bahrami's meeting with the Vice Chairman of China's Central Military Commission Xu Qilian got less attention, though The Diplomat's Ankit Pandacovered the meeting, noting that it"underlined the increasingly close military-to-military ties between the two countries." That flurry of meetings was followed by reports in Fergana News, a Russia-based news outfit focused on Central Asia, that a new Afghan military base would be built in Badakhshan with Chinese funding.
Diversity of endophytic bacteria associated with nodules of two indigenous legumes at different altitudes of the Qilian Mountains in China.
The Yuqia oil shale-bearing area is situated in the Yuqia-Hongshan Depression in the central part of the northern fault block belt, between the Qilian and Luliang Mountains, and has an area of 500 [km.sup.2] (Fig.
The PLA website reported that the PLA Air Force conducted training at the foot of the Qilian Mountains in Northwest China's Gansu Province, and a navy aviation regiment was on patrol in Jiaodong Peninsula, East China's Shandong province.
I felt had to see it again, so I returned the day after I went to the Qilian Mountains in Qinghai to Biandukou.
The region is surrounded by Kunlun Mountains, Qilian Mountains, and Altai Mountains.