[1976 July 23 [1976 July 22], “Important Results Obtained from Solar Eclipse”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 143, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, Urumchi, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 2:
The central line of the path of the annular solar eclipse lay across the southwestern border of Sinkiang from Shenhsienwan and Tienshuihai in the Karakoram mountain area-- to the vicinity of Nagchuka county in Tibet.]
1991, Jeremy Schmidt, Himalayan Passage: Seven Months in the High Country of Tibet, Nepal, China, India, & Pakistan[1], Seattle: The Mountaineers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 117:
On a vast, dry lakebed called Tianshuihai, we came to a community of sorts, a desperate huddle of concrete and mud structures. My map labeled the region “Soda Plain,” and it seemed a long time since any water had gathered there. It was also, evidently, earthquake country. Buildings, many of them abandoned, had been shaken off their foundations; their walls had cracked and roofs fallen in. The military post and gas depot where Qu stopped to refuel had been shored up by heavy concrete buttresses. Thousands of fifty-gallon drums littered the ground, along with broken machinery, derelict vehicles, chunks of concrete, goat carcasses, cans, bottles, and shit.
The expedition found that ice sheets were once as much as twice as large as today and the ancient Tianshuihai lake was 80 kilometers long and 10 kilometers wide, while now there are only small salt lakes and a lacustrine plain.
Woo and Gong had flown out of Tianshuihai and were patrolling a section of the border where China abutted the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, including the disputed region of Askai[sic – meaning Aksai] Chin that was under Chinese control. "Could you imagine being posted to this place?" Gong asked.
2021 December 1, “China-India border: PLA ramps up infrastructure along LAC, say reports”, in Shoma Bhattacharjee, editor, CNBC TV18[4], archived from the original on 2021-12-02[5]:
The PLA has built at least eight roads towards the LAC from China’s G219 highway, according to latest reports. These run from the salt water lake Tianshuihai in the Xinjiang region towards Galwan valley and from Kangxiwar in China’s southwestern Xinjiang region to the Karakoram Pass
