A river course which used to supply water for Hongjian Nur has become a sand land. Hongjian Nur is the largest natural desert freshwater lake in Shaanxi Province and the second largest in China. [Photo from the Shaanxi Daily]
![A river course which used to supply water for Hongjian Nur has become a sand land. Hongjian Nur is the largest natural desert freshwater lake in Shaanxi Province and the second largest in China. [Photo from the Shaanxi Daily]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20090618/001109b42f730ba4432618.jpg "A river course which used to supply water for Hongjian Nur has become a sand land. Hongjian Nur is the largest natural desert freshwater lake in Shaanxi Province and the second largest in China. [Photo from the Shaanxi Daily]")
