http://www.hudong.com/wiki/%E4%B8%83%E4%B8%AA%E6%98%9F%E9%95%87 Hudong Encyclopedia] The town is 36 kilometers west of Bosten Lake (the largest in Xinjiang) and is largely agricultural, producing grains, oil, sugar beet, fennel, pepper, cotton, tomato and livestock, but just on its outskirts lie the Tarim Basin, a desert.