The burials would usually take place after sunset or on a clear morning. Each time it would take more than an hour for the handbarrow to get there, and Gobi Sandbank became a kind of nickname for death.
那一望無際稱為「戈壁灘」的土堆就在勞改農場的西邊，埋屍體大多是在太陽下山後或一大清早，每次拉板車大概要走一個多小時，所以「戈壁灘」就變成死亡代名詞。