Salt Works on the Yuncheng Salt Lake
The lake that made the region rich, the evaporation that concentrates its brine, and the walled town that the salt administration built at the end of the Yuan.
Yuncheng Salt Lake
The salt lake lies in Yuncheng, at the northern foot of the Zhongtiao mountains, and is the largest lake in Shanxi and the third largest inland lake of the sodium sulphate type in the world. It is made up of several ponds and flats, among them Jie Pond, Xiao Pond, Duck Pond, Tangli Beach, Beimen Beach and Wuxing Lake, with a total area of 154 square kilometres. Jie Pond is the largest of them: 97 square kilometres, 20.8 kilometres long, on a water surface 321 metres above sea level, in the south-east of Yanhu District. Salt has been taken here for more than four thousand years, under the names Jie salt, Lu salt and Hedong salt.