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This salt field in China's Xizang: 1,300 years of sun-drying salt

Source:xzxw.com 2026-09-22

Mangkang salt fields, known in Tibetan as "Cakalo", means "a place with salt". The history of salt-drying here dates back to the Tang Dynasty, more than 1,300 years ago. 

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